Work
Resilient Places & Communities
Embedding sustainability in urban developments
To achieve sustainability on complex projects with many stakeholders and constraints, we run workshops (with development agencies, built environment consultancies, and public authorities) to define a site-specific resilience vision, and a rigorous yet understandable supporting framework of performance indicators and implementation routes. We find the means for commercially feasible regional masterplans to embed evidence-based principles of placemaking, inclusive well-being, net zero carbon, circular economy and nature-based design.
Communities of Innovation
Facilitating Collective Intelligence With Communities
We support communities to come together to learn, share and practice exploring systems solutions to systemic challenges. We bring novel collaborative tools and systems approaches to help form experimental learning communities with subject experts, public institutions and local people.
Data-informed Decision Making
Agreeing priorities using collective knowledge
We focus on the human experience of turning data into wisdom, by quickly prototyping and sharing ‘open access’ digital tools that combine different types of information (like integrated technical models of complex systems), with clear visual presentation of exactly what matters most to the people using them (multilateral agencies, university partners and risk-taking companies).
Climate Resilience and Risk
Analysing and planning climate adaptations
We provide strategic advice and implementation support to help understand the effects a changing environment might have on particular places and human activities, and how a step-by-step adaptation plan can transform risk into opportunity.
Strategic Collaborations
Convening purposeful cross-sector collaborations
We are skilled brokers, conversation starters and network facilitators. We work across geographic and disciplinary divides to bring people (from universities and consultancies, multilateral agencies, and technology companies) together and explore systemic problems in a structured yet friendly and creative way.
Sustainable Finance
Innovating and brokering green investment
We provide technical assistance to support funding and investments in new green infrastructure. We bring expertise on innovative governance and finance partnerships, and can support investors, development banks and municipalities to assess their risks and report on non-financial performance targets like contributing to the UN sustainable development goals.
Projects & Initiatives
Ebbsfleet Central
Collaboratively defining a sustainability vision and decision tool for a garden city
City Finance lab – Northern Gateway
Advising green infrastructure investment for the Northern Gateway
Nexus Resilience
Integrating town planning, public health, climate, biophilia & neuroscience expertise
Anaklia
Evidencing the commercial vision to deliver a commercially attractive, climate-resilient city
Silver Access – Capstone project
Data and place based access for & co-created with, local at risk groups
URGED for Scottish Canals
Decision-support tool for managing flood risk to infrastructure using satellite data
Future Cities Africa
Using agent-based modelling to plan for water supply and waste water infrastructure
A flexible three-stage approach to deliver solutions to complex issues
We champion a practical, integrated systems approach to driving sustainable performance in city regions. Our offering allows for a gradual onboarding to secure approach validation and internal buy-in, followed by prototype demonstration of systems-based solutions and capacity building. The first two stages are designed to prepare cities for a fully functioning systems modelling platform to support planning and investment decisions that will help them build sustainability and resilience.
Onboarding
Approach validation
Regional stakeholder buy-in
City Analysis
- Stakeholder & governance
- Procurement
- Institutional capacity & data
City Routemap
- Priority focus areas
- Prototype model data & tech requirements
- Access to funding
- Practical next steps Results Matrix (RM)
Cross-network opportunities
Results Matrix (RM)
Topic exploration and prioritisation
Prototyping
Prototype demonstration of systems-based solutions to region-specific challenges
Capacity building through advance learning
Collaborative workshop
Regional priorities, focus area
Prototyping & discovery
Learning & capacity building
Investment & brokering solutions
Prototype Model
- Data maturity support
- Rapid prototyping
- Topic-expert user group
- Model interoperability
Use cases and action plan
- Enhanced data use & analytics
- Realistic simulation of a sector solution
- Routemap adopted and completed by project actors
- Outline investment proposal
- Integration of effective solutions
Embedding
Fully functioning systems modelling for value creation
Project infrastructure options to build regional sustainability and resilience
Systems Modelling Platform
- Codeveloped Integrated systems model
- Scenario testing for project design and investment decisions
- User-Friendly interface
- Hackathon for regional
cross-sector leaders
Learning & Capacity Building
Training, knowledge sharing & increased learning power
Brokering investment & effective technology
- Connecting investment & innovations to bankable projects
- Codeveloped with expert-user group
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