Blogs

Urban gardening is reshaping city life. This toolkit shows how residents can create greener homes and communities using simple steps learned from real projects in Beirut.

AI chatbots are becoming friends, confidants and even romantic partners. How will this impact mental health, safety and companionship for future generations?

We speak to Min Layi Chan, whose work focuses on co-developing practices to provide continuous and quality education for children in hard-to-reach communities.

What if, instead of measuring progress by the size of our economies, we measured it by how well people and the planet are actually doing?

Festo's work focuses on empowering local communities to become active participants in identifying and solving the challenges they face, rather than just being subjects of research.

An interdisciplinary research project exploring the viability and utility to local authorities of using that alongside AI to gain insight into place-based community well-being.

A day of listening, memory, and movement with Dana Sousa-Limbu of DIVINE KIND at the London Design Biennale 2025

Why social solidarity is a vital asset for the 21st century.

What can we do when the visual public realm is becoming less democratic, less representative, and increasingly shaped by the logic of profit rather than the needs of people?

Imagination is not merely fantasy or escapism - it is a profound force that shapes our social, political, and ecological realities. Yet what exactly are imaginaries, and why do they matter so much?

We speak to citizen social scientist Ali, a longtime collaborator with the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, and founder of Lebanese Spotlight, a youth-led NGO.

UCL Institute for Global Prosperity's Lei Zhou has his MSc module design shortlisted in 'The Bartlett Invents' competition

Embarking on a transformative journey - a blog by Sam Tamayo

IGP collaborates with The British Academy, academics and senior civil servants at HM Treasury and the Department of Business and Trade on a UK economic strategy.

Can we find a new way to think about how justice is understood, pursued, and realized in the context of political change?