https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/04/relativity-surreal-paintings-of-indecision-and-uncertainty-by-alex-hall/ Black…or white? It was difficult to see, drowned out by the jet-black darkness of midnight and dazzled by the blinding white of the floodlights. …

In a previous blog post, I wrote about adapting policy to our new environment. Some of the fundamental principles I’ve learnt over the last year from these lessons are: Many key opportunities that frontline staff think should be amplified were started pre-Covid 19 and can be accelerated. We will need…

I've written before about how we move from behaviour change to systems change and how you can create that movement through the lens of a 15-minute neighbourhood. When I worked on an organisational transformation programme, I wanted to ground it in impact on the ground and, therefore, in people's lives…

How can we use our understanding of need, lessons learned of what we need to recover, review or reinvent and future scenarios to prioritise how we transition our services out of lockdown and adapt our ways of working and policies to the new environment? We want to use the insights…

While I was on holiday, there was a session on rich illustrations facilitated by Isabel Young at the Young Foundation, who had co-facilitated our London Policy & Strategy Network session on how to develop peer research. If you’ve never heard of rich picturing and are curious, here’s a good video…

In September 2018, the West Midlands Combined Authority approved its Inclusive Growth Framework, becoming one of the first combined authorities to embed the doughnut model into its strategic decision-making”. After our session with Kate Raworth to understand what Doughnut Economics is, at our recent London Policy & Strategy Network…

Alexis sweetly volleyed home his 23rd goal of the season and ran towards the home crowd with that increasingly habitual look of desire and uncertainty. He loved being the Gunners’ idol but wanted to go one step up to a club that would give him the holy grail. As he…

On the Long Time Project community call, Phoebe Tickell introduced us to an exercise to speak to our ancestors (no, it wasn’t an ouija board). It was called “Inquiry from the Future” from the Moral Imaginations playbook. A world that we’ve destroyed If our descendants in 200 years looked back…