
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.
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.
ILLUSTRATION CASE: Considering long time frames
New institutions are continuously being created at local to global scales, and older institutions are…
ILLUSTRATION CASE: Digital Transformation (AADHAR & DIIA)
New institutions are continuously being created at local to global scales, and older institutions are…
ILLUSTRATION CASE: Government Guidance Funds (China)
New institutions are continuously being created at local to global scales, and older institutions are…
Publications
Explorations of insights, questions, and experiments that inspire and spark our imagination when it comes to designing institutions for the 21st century.
White paper #001: Safeguarding elections in the age of AI and synthetic content
Legitimacy: Working hypotheses
Institutional architecture and future global governance
Articles
Early ideas that spark and sustain the craft of institutional architecture.
Artificial Intelligence and tackling the challenge of designing new public institutions
The challenge When new tasks come along, often new institutions have to be created too. …
Building space for an institutional design intervention
Institutional design offers untapped potential to drive and sustain meaningful social change. Based on a…
The practice of Institutional Architecture
It’s very easy to make sweeping generalizations about institutions, but these are very hard to…