Articles

Business Life After the Virus: The Imaginative State

By Jericho Chambers
on 3rd July 2020

Seize the day; seize the moment; find our voices Thank you to everyone who joined us for the final event in the current series of #JerichoConversations: The Imaginative State. Sorry if you missed it – you can catch-up here. With special thanks to our contributors: John Thornhill, Innovation Editor, The Financial Times; Imandeep Kaur, co-founder of Civic Square,...

The WildEast Project

By James Alexander
on 2nd July 2020

Looking to the future, the 50-year long WildEast project aims to make East Anglia one of “the world’s great...

Regulating Disruption: From Financial Services to COVID and Beyond

By Eithne O’leary
on 1st July 2020

Disruption comes in many forms and impacts us at varying speeds. The seismic events caused by COVID have been...

Community organisations key to coronavirus response

By Jericho Chambers
on 1st July 2020

Increased trust in our fellow citizens and communities is one of the few good things to emerge from the...

How can cities govern and benefit from digital technologies in the global urban age?

By Derek Wyatt
on 1st July 2020

This publication, a result of a collaboration between Demos Helsinki and the four biggest cities of Finland: Espoo, Helsinki,...

Seven lessons from seven cities

by Becky Holloway

on 1st July 2020

Sizewell Community Working Group member, Derek Wyatt was an interviewee for The Future of Scotland series. These ‘Seven lessons...

#BuildBackBetter

by Jericho Chambers

on 30th June 2020

Few want to go back to the ‘old normal’ that got us into this mess. But what does Building...

“I love renewables but I’m also pro-arithmetic”

by Robert Phillips

on 30th June 2020

This TEDx talk from physicist David Mackay is also well worth a watch. How do we wean Britain off...

Time for Change?

by Rebecca Perrin

on 29th June 2020

How realistic is the ambition of delivering a Net Zero carbon economy by 2050, 2040 or 2035? How reliable...