Annual Reflection
Coalesce: Learnings from 2025
Reflections on a year of anti-patterning, shifting to a trip around the sun with the intention to 'coalesce' life, work and interests and grow together into the future.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Exploring the impacts of AI on Knowledge, Universities & Labs
AI is disrupting the university monopoly. We can't "hire our way" out of this transition, and trying to control emergence is a losing battle. Are sandboxes our best option to prototype a future University operating model?
Living Labs
Bloopers: Living Labs Report - Part 2: Typology of Living Labs
Living Labs come in many shapes and forms. This post aims to tease out some of the different forms to better understand their strengths and focuses to advance how we build and sustain Labs over time.
Complexity
Trojan Mouse. Trojan Mice!
About a decade ago, I heard the term "Trojan Mouse" as a way to speak about small experiments or safe-to-fail tests. Ever since I've been thinking about what their role is in systems change.
Living Labs
Bloopers: Living Labs Report - Part 1: Generations
Living Labs are evolving over time, geography and in response to the challenges and opportunities for collective action. This post introduces Three Generations of evolution.
Living Labs
OLLD25: The Edges of University Living Labs
In October, I was fortunate enough to join forces with leading lights in the University Living Labs space at the Open Living Lab Days 2025 conference in Andorra.
Living Labs
Report: Advancing University Living Labs
University Living Labs are a relational infrastructure to orchestrate and catalyse portfolios of impact-oriented initiatives in collaboration with societal partners.
Living Labs
Three Lines Of Enquiry for Living Labs (OLLD25)
Open Living Lab Days 2025, a conference for Living Lab practitioners from around the world is upon us, and I'm in Andorra to explore three lines of enquiry.
Place
Putting the Place back in Place-based
Can we really be Place-based if we only pay attention to the People who live there?
Work
Update: Ecology of work, Europe & active experiments
The lichen-ous current state of my work and community life, and what's coming for the rest of the year.
Systems Practice
Deep Dive: Innovation Orchestration - challenges, value & impact framework
What value does an innovation orchestrator create, and what are the future aspects we need to address to increase their effectiveness?
Beyond the Lab: landscape scan and synthesis of regional innovation orchestration
Regional innovation doesn't just happen. Exploring the role of orchestration in regional innovation ecosystems - beyond the Lab.