WRITINGS

With the incoming new Prime Minister in the UK, Andy Burnham, transitioning from a mayor to national-level leader, and against the backdrop of the early success of “pothole politics” in New York from a public engagement perspective, creating a wave of national-level races following this political stance in the US, we’re revisiting what these kinds of sweeping changes require. "Pothole politics": in 1970s Baltimore, facing high taxes and crumbling infrastructure, with low publ

One of the core premises of our work in the Curiosity Incubator, and now in building the Accelerator for Good, based on our work in over 40 countries in over 120 projects in the past 10 years, is how to incorporate not just what “worked”, in finding solutions to our most pressing problems. But rather, incorporating all the incredibly important information, experience, know-how and capabilities creation of what didn’t work, into the design, content, and work of the Accelerato

In our Curiosity Incubator drive to move beyond the generic 'direction of travel' advice permeating so much of the discourse in UK government and policy circles at the moment, to focus on specific examples of how we might collectively work on improving it, Oliver Smith , Founder of the Daedalus Futures ethical AI consultancy, and Associate at Future Governance Forum, and Bridget, Curiosity Incubator Founder , co-imagine together a public innovation approach to 'rewiring the

In our Community of Practice co-creation thus far, one of the key themes has been how to get from point A (the current state of play in Government in the UK) to point B (variously – Mission-ready; rewiring the state, now Move Fast, Fix Things). All of these involve the core engine of learning and transformation in the civil service and public sector. Or: Learning to Transform, which was the lens for the work that in part inspired the idea of a Community of Practice, sharing w

What happens when you go back into your organisation or network after a transformative learning or convening experience, where no one else knows what you've learnt - and what can behavioural science do to help? The “Concrete Wall” is a concept we coined a few years ago, in our initial co-creation work for the Curiosity Incubator | Accelerator for Good with colleagues across the world, including key discussions with the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership team

The Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, Cambridge - the birthplace of the Curiosity Incubator - recently featured an article about our origin story, and how we came to be, in the most recent Jesus College Annual Report (pp 39-42 - link here ). We had a lot of fun working through with editor Kate Coughlin what our origin story actually is, how to distil the themes on which we draw, the influences to our work and framework, and what makes the Curiosity Incubator | Accelerato