Studio manager role at Policy Lab! 🎉🎉🎉 - run our team-wide operations in a really amazing policy innovation team in central gov - Apply before 12th August www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...

Great paid opportunity for early-stage designers to get experience in a policy design context in UK central government - massively recommended! #PolicyDesign #Placement www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...

Policy Lab are looking for an entry-level film ethnographer to join our team - www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

People in government .... www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...

What a title… Aesthetics and Communication lead going at Policy Lab. Open to Bristol peeps - 3 of us here already, can we get Policy Lab SW?? www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...

Running the online debate on the Future of Civil Service Skills with Policy Lab, come join - civil servants only! 👀 If you aren't a civil servant but know a few, please do let them know! - www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...

🧵 1/3 - Beyond the landscape, recent #Iceland 🇮🇸 trip highlights included a micro-residency at hafnar.haus, talks, discussions, brilliant socially conscious creatives in the former Ministry of Welfare. Lunchtime food parades and possibly the best office view ever ..

Taken by how Icelanders seem to know my hometown of #Grimsby better than people in the UK do. Isolated Icelandic villages often had better ties to coastal towns around the world than Reykjavik. Got quite reflective, took a trip out to the Westfjords - came across a wrecked Grimsby trawler on the way

Took some time out from my trip to 🇮🇸 to chat with Josie Maltinsky Gaitens from East of Moon about being a Creative Technologist in Policy Lab ... #EastOfMoonTransmissions #CreativeTechnology -

Love the idea that writing blogs is writing letters to AI

🧵 1/4 - In our fortnightly blue-sky session #ImaginationStation we took a closer look at the electronics around us as part of an art exploration. Part of this was logging off of Teams, shutting down the Macbook and removing the back cover to see what was inside ...

1/3 🧵 - Cross government software engineering conference today at GDS Whitechapel, presenting talk on Creative Technology in Government …

Such a buzzy vibe at #ukgc25 with really some really thoughtful discussions. Policy Lab represent with @prateekbuch.bsky.social and Lara Kinneir - Moawr pls!

#Bristol #Hackspace Christmas #RobotWars

When our #Ethnography researchers showcased this to the team it was amazing to see how the discussion in-game was different to that in the participant's home - two completely different complementary bits of insight, both so rich 💡 openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/11/w...

🧵 1/4 - I've been tracking the prediction in this 2001 BT Exact whitepaper for well over 20 years now (https://brendan.sdf-eu.org/downloads/the_future.pdf) lots of interesting predictions but perhaps the most interesting thing is how much it said about the time it was written ...

Policy mini games? WarioWare for workshops? A Policy Lab #ImaginationStation session building and publishing experimental games in Downpour (thanks to @v21.bsky.social for the amazing toolkit)

Really thoughtful and well presented futures work from Natural England 🍃 'Ecology Re-Wired' at Horizon House, Bristol. #GenerativeAI imagery, natural artefacts and especially love the quiet office pod converted into a listening booth 🎧

🧵 1/3 - 'Café Les Négociants' sits on the corner of a busy intersection in Marrakech - people (mostly guys) come here to make deals and people watch. When I arrived I really didn't like the negotiations when buying stuff here, no prices on anything, but after a week I started to get into it ...

Bristol Urban Forum manifesto event, culmination of a years worth of experiments in Bristol on #CitizenAssembly

Huge privilege to write about and continue the work here by Amy Ramdehal, Christie van-Tinteren and Stephen Bennett openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/29/a... - "how can Natural England better work with early-stage creatives on protected sites across the country?"

Civil servants… 6 month placements at Policy Lab www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...

At the Vision for #CreativeTech in #Bristol panel talk - very interesting discussion of how we can form a narrative for Bristol in the UK and abroad

It’s pretty low on the #DIY difficulty metric but it’s crazy how much satisfaction oiling the curtain tracks has brought …

Policy Lab is recruiting for a policy designer - come work with us in a really interesting policy team in UK Government! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

TEPIA (先端技術館) institute #Tokyo, really for kids, has a hackspace which has a bunch of rapid prototyping tool plus samples (thread for reference) ...

#CanIHasSwitches? #Akihabra still got it, including a dedicated switch shop in Akihabra Radio Hall (秋葉原電波会館) Switches are one of the most tricky things to buy through mail order - massively tactile ...

#Tokyo friend telling me about 'Chanko' (ちゃんこ鍋) - a stew that you eat and then have a nap and it gradually turns you into a sumo wrestler ... ... also sumo training dojos are called 'stables' japan.recipetineats.com/chanko-nabe-...

One Person Democracy by Yoshiaki Kaihatsu at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo - got to send a year in future postcard, do an analogue Pol.is discussion, dot voting and massive wall of sticky notes ... might as well be at work

Turns out you can render Japanese character sets on DOS - so great to meet hackers from the other side of the planet #Tokyo #Hackspace

Missed the London one last month but managed to make it to the Tokyo one last week 😂 @gaemz.bsky.social #Tokyo meet-up no. 32. No pics of the event bc policy but some brilliant ideas and people - thanks to @thenomi.bsky.social for organised and @eigotaku.bsky.social for hosting xxx

SDF meetup at #Tokyo #MakerFaire - 20 years(?!!) since last met up…

Capsule hotel #Tokyo #Japan experience - something eerie about having a mandated routine, dressing in a given uniform, then being monitored for health overnight with infrared camera. Report is in the post apparently …

Interesting piece on modern Wargaming (Serious Games) in government - would be interesting to see the civic applications in more detail youtu.be/lYaDXZ2MI-k?...

Experimented with The Quiet Year (buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year) a few times now as a basis for policy work - I've never been able to get the discussion mechanic to work well - is there something I'm missing here?

Any other shows that get into your dreams like Scavengers Reign?

Would love to experiment with this kind of tech + Policy Lab evidence cards … www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI7J...

Housemate managed to set fire to the insulation lining on his car yesterday, smoke coming from a place couldn’t easily reach until I lent him my watering can to put it out - his car is a classic Volkswagen Beetle #MissedImageOfTheDay

Feeling seen …

If they offer two of what you want at discount, ask for four with more discount - only works late in the day at the bagel shop in Brick Lane - and if you want four bagels #LPT #Hustling247

American grandad(?) on tube today showed his grandson how to fold Evening Standard so you can throw it fro your bike - had to try when I got home … #Zx80 #PaperBoy

@danabra.mov talks #BlueSky protocol - v cool but never realised just how public my posts were as well as my likes, comments etc … #UberOpen

Running and storing weighted AI models, encoded in binary, on transistor chips which ultimately have analogue response curves seems … wasteful?

Insta-policy network …

Thanks PMStudioUK for hosting my talk on 'Creative Technology and Policy' - some really lively discussion at the end - watch back in full here including our aspirations for a digital #CitizenAssembly and how we make space for #Imagination www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFPX...