Policy Lab has a 10-year history of convening diverse voices to contribute to policymaking, including those of creative practitioners. Our ongoing collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, MANIFEST, evaluates the role that artistic strategies could play in policymaking, …
We are sharing a short blog series on different methodologies that Policy Lab has experimented with in the context of action to address climate change. This, the first blog, describes a policy co-design process we ran last month at the Design Council’s Design for Planet conference coinciding with COP26.
Andrea Siodmok shares her thoughts from the back of an Uber, on how experiencing innovation is much better than just being told about it.
...practical tools and examples of design being used in policy making. We tend to spot design when it goes wrong: badly laid out forms, websites we can’t navigate, confusing signage,...
...with. It imagines a number of possible futures and creates objects and artefacts which might be present in them as a way of provoking debate about the future. These alternative...
...a dozen more, and have come up with some great ideas. One of those is a better letter. A online, digital process is of course planned for the future. Ideas...
...So this is not the end for our first demonstration project - the online crime reporting service will likely go through many more iterations before you might use it if...
Yesterday we asked about how to use agile for policy making. Last week, Policy Lab experimented with doing it. It kind of makes sense that we should kick-start a...
At the beginning of January we welcomed back Hannah Rutter. This is her first blog and we asked her what differences she's found on her return.
...For Policy Lab, this demonstrator was an opportunity to try out three things: using ethnographic research to shape policy making; engaging a broad network of stakeholders in creating policy; and...