Since the beginning of this year Shared Future has been involved in designing and facilitating the London Borough of Wandsworth’s Citizen Assembly on Air Quality. The Assembly is the fruition of the new administration’s manifesto pledges to hold a Citizens Assembly, to review its Air Quality Action
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In our Annual Review of 2022, we recount some of our work in an extraordinary year. 2022 has been a year like no other. Economic, environmental and political turmoil defined the last 12 months. In our 2021 report we began by saying that political trust was at
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Our experiments in game-like facilitation shows play can make deliberative and participatory processes more effective and enjoyable.
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Our experiments in game-like facilitation shows play can make deliberative and participatory processes more effective and enjoyable.
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The report detailing the youth group process and its findings is available here. Young people are highly aware of the threat to their futures from climate change yet are rarely able to influence the ‘gatekeepers’ of climate emissions – those decision makers in Cumbria whose strategies and
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A new paper examining Shared Future’s Leeds Climate Change Citizens Jury highlights the co-benefits of deliberation, writes SF Director Jez Hall. Local authorities wanting to achieve meaningful carbon reduction, are increasingly turning towards public engagement. Shared Future is part of this, having delivered a wide range of
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The pandemic interrupted the use of participatory budgeting (PB) programmes, but we believe there is a growing appetite to restart them post-Covid, especially grant making PB programmes. While grant making PB certainly has benefits, there are pitfalls too, says Shared Future Director Jez Hall in this end of year opinion piece. The work for Shared Future, he adds, is to suggest ways to make the transition from PB grant-making to consider the larger ‘mainstream’ budgets and reach the ideal situation where we have both.
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We sort the recommendations from six citizens’ processes into broad themes to find the top five most frequently mentioned climate policy asks.
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Katy Rubin reflects on Democracy Pioneers, a project to engage Glasgow’s policymakers on climate change through theatre.
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With funding from the Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN), an ESRC supported network that brings together the research community and decision-makers in the public, private and third sectors, Shared Future CIC has published a guide for local authorities and other bodies. The guide aims to support local authorities and other bodies thinking of commissioning a citizens’ assembly or jury. It considers how such processes might address the climate emergency, what is involved and approaches to design and delivery.
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