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Happy holiday season to each and every change maker in our community.  
We want to acknowledge the  
amazing year that we’ve had working on projects that have the power to change the future for people  
and the planet but have also challenged and inspired us.  
For being part of this journey, we thank  
you sincerely.  
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The tabs of a decade past, present, and future  
We know just how much you love a good  
thought provoking tab (that’s right, we checked the data).  
So this issue we’re taking the chance to  
reflect on significant moments from the decade that’s drawing to a close and allowing some time for  
musing on what the approaching decade may hold.  
We’ll be back in your inbox next year, with no  
haunting ghosts of  if only we had... , but always,  how might we create a better tomorrow .  
Rest  
well.  
Pauline Shoemaker, Front end Developer.  
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A look back at how the experiment based approach has  
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transformed development economics  
in the past  
decade, a field that studies the causes of global poverty and how best to combat it.  
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Evidence that  
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supporting green jobs and innovation may harbour economic prosperity  
, in addition to  
helping to reduce the harmful effects of climate change.  
Jacob Zinman Jeanes, Design Director.  
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It can be easy to admire new technologies that promise magical solutions, or to denounce modern  
developments as being counter to our nature as humans.  
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This interview  
explores the origins of both  
mindsets.  
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This online magazine  
has built a completely self sufficient website running off solar power and  
designed for minimal energy use.  
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Low tech Magazine  
explores past knowledge and technologies to  
solve current and future problems.  
Penny Mc Vey, Delivery Lead.  
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The UN sustainable development goals are celebrated for aligning business, government and citizens  
on purpose.  
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But have we made progress over the last five years?  
The proof is in the (figgy) pudding.  
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Living closer together is becoming a rapid reality for urban dwellers.  
Here’s one firm’s vision on  
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how we design future cities  
, with sustainability and community at the core.  
Callan Rowe, Innovation Lead.  
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Some  light’ holiday reading,  
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Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff  
is an important book  
laying out how data and big tech have supercharged the negative aspects of capitalism into  
something very anti human.  
As we move into the next decade this new strain of capitalism seems  
poised to become the dominant model.  
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A more hopeful book from the CEO and founder of Kickstarter Yancey Strickler,  
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This Could Be Our  
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Future  
looks at how we might move away from the current default of financial maximisation towards a  
more generous and rounded idea of value.  
Lennon Cheng, Senior Interaction Designer.  
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Buckle up for an insightful report on  
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how technology has entirely transformed day to day food  
  
ordering and delivery in China.  
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Our daily usage of mobile apps and a little  
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gamification might help scale up climate action  
, and it  
has already been happening.  
Adam Morris, Chief Design Officer.  
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The 2010s saw us enter  
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post normal times  
a period of complexity, chaos, and contradictions.  
It’s  
seen us faced with big, complex challenges that need creative and urgent responses.  
It’s the  
context that inspired us to create Today – a way to dive in and explore new ideas that might move  
us towards the world we want to see.  
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The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils imagine  
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what 2030 might look like  
if we get  
things right.  
There are some big ideas here that build on emerging trends, but the theme is  
leveraging technology to enable and amplify fairness, equality, integrity, and care.  
Roberta Nelson, Partnerships Manager.  
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Can renewables power the world?  
This 10 year reflection on the energy sector makes me think it is  
more of a question of when.  
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A bright future starts with imagining its potential.  
These 10 short stories  
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imagine a 2030 where  
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technology is being used to create real, powerful and positive change  
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Damon O'Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer.  
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Streets on fire: how  
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a decade of protests  
changed the world.  
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As climate change worsens,  
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a cascade of tipping points  
looms.  
Philippa Abbott, Head of Design.  
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Social innovation has increased significantly  
in the last decade, helping scale human centred  
design across governments, NG Os and industry.  
This has seen the development of a huge range of  
initiatives, global collaborations, reorienting around value based outcomes and embedding this  
within various sectors as way to build social value into enterprise, systems and services.  
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I’m really excited by biomimicry and how we move from thinking about designing from nature to  
mitigate our impact, to learning and designing with nature, towards  
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cities and services that act as  
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an ecology  
that mimic and learn from environmental systems.  
Human centred design practices, service  
design, system design and ecology will merge with technology to enable this reality and help the  
transition.  
Kathryn Denton, Delivery lead.  
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Leading the way  
: how Finland has built upon its culture of trust, equality and pragmatism to lead  
the world in flexible work.  
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Leveraging  
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AI to create smart work environments  
, enhance collaboration for geographically dispersed  
teams and diversify and enable a more efficient remote workforce.  
It is still not too late to act.  
It will take a far reaching vision, it will take courage, it will  
take fierce, fierce determination to act now, to lay the foundations where we may not know all the  
details about how to shape the ceiling. In other words, it will take cathedral thinking.  
I ask you  
to please wake up and make changes required possible.  
Greta Thunberg  
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