Why Labs are as much about mindset as toolset
Andrea Siodmok shares her thoughts from the back of an Uber, on how experiencing innovation is much better than just being told about it.
Policy Lab
Policy Lab mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
Reflections on education, skills and forecasting futures
Six months after graduating from an MA in design from London College of Communication (LCC), I was fortunate enough to be invited for dinner with the Vice Chancellor of my university (UAL) and the Head of my College (LCC). As …
Data Dilemmas - how Open Policy Making can help us use data ethically
...scores are calculated by algorithms, for example, as are suggestions for films we might like to watch on Netflix or books we might like to buy on Amazon. And through...
Tools for discovering data
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Events, Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
I’m off to speak at Open Data Manchester this evening about both how open data and open working can make better policy. I thought I’d share some of the tools...
Opening up policy problems to fresh talent
Policy Lab and the Social Investment & Finance Team asked MA students studying Service Design at the Royal College of Arts to grow the social investment market in new ways. This is what they came up with.
On loan to Lab
I'm now over half-way through my time in Policy Lab, on loan from the Treasury to learn, employ and ultimately bring back new and innovative policy approaches. During my time at the Treasury I've learned a lot, about how policy …
Graphic design and policy making
...if you don’t like them or grow out of them, a bit like you can online. But more importantly, we are now using speculative design as a way of exploring...
Exploring the evidence
If I’m honest, I find it really hard to read a long report unless I’ve got a particular question to answer. And if I’m really, really honest, sometimes I forget...
Notes from a policy speed dating event
One strand of the Open Policy Making agenda is about using a broader range of evidence to inform policy. For example the What Works centres were set up to enable policy officials to access research and make use of it …
Prototyping a new health and work service
...a greenfield site, and we needed to explore how this service might work and align with existing services. So the next stage was to prototype elements of it – or...