Resources
The world has a rich history of institutional forms and an ever-growing array of technologies to help collaborate, communicate, and build collective intelligence. Here, we document and collect under-utilized illustrations and novel guides for institutional entrepreneurs.
Toolkits
Guides, frameworks and methodologies systematically organised to facilitate the process of designing, implementing, and improving institutions. These toolkits serve as practical guides for individuals and organizations involved in shaping new and renewed institutions.
Playbook: Designing new institutions and renewing existing ones
This Playbook was developed as a collaboration between UNDP, TIAL and Demos Helsinki. It is…
Toolkit: Legitimacy Lens – A guide for building and maintaining legitimacy of new institutions
A guide to designing new institutions
This toolkit offers a framework for thinking about the design of new organizations — whether…
Illustration cases
Overlooked and underutilized models offering valuable insights for institutional architecture.
The climate convergence: Extreme heat as a catalyst for cross-sector innovation
Mobilising the collective intelligence of nature — Internet of animals
Redefining data sovereignty: Māori data governance in the digital age
Publications
Explorations of insights, questions, and experiments that inspire and spark our imagination when it comes to designing institutions for the 21st century.
Governing in turbulent times
Working Paper: The city as mesh
White Paper #004: Interchange: Design building blocks for complex science-policy challenges
Articles
Early ideas that spark and sustain the craft of institutional architecture.
Project update: Building institutional architecture for governing climate tipping points
TIAL’s “Tipping Element Interchange” project focuses on developing new institutional architectures capable of recognising and…
Reimagining public institutions: reflections from Istanbul, Berlin, and Brasília
TIAL’s purpose is to highlight the role of institutions, and their underlying architecture, in creating…
