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Regulate or resist? AI's Atlantic divide.

Mar 3 • Sanja Terlević

Democracy at work or a future without work.

Feb 24 • Sanja Terlević

Thinking in Systems, Designing for Change

How systemic design can unlock transformative change.

May 25, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

How Institutions Shape Who Gains in the Economy

Part III of a four-part series on tech, power and economic design.

Jan 21 • Sanja Terlević

The Rise of Third Places

From digital wealth to public commons: reimagining how we sustain civic life.

Oct 6, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

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Polity Imaginaries

What Gives Your Life Meaning?

How to retain meaning in a jobless future.

Dec 16, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

The Future of Intelligence

How redefining intelligence can help us build technologies and policies that serve human flourishing.

Dec 9, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

The Rise of Third Places

From digital wealth to public commons: reimagining how we sustain civic life.

Oct 6, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

Narrow(er) Corridor in the Age of AI

Democracy between hollowed-out states, fragile societies and new technologies.

Aug 31, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

Creative Citizenship: Designing the Future, Together

Reimagining governance as a creative act and citizens as co-designers of the rules that shape our future.

Apr 13, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

The Signal

Regulate or resist? AI's Atlantic divide.

Mar 3 • Sanja Terlević

Democracy at work or a future without work.

Feb 24 • Sanja Terlević

Tyranny of averages or why poverty targets risk leaving the most vulnerable behind.

Feb 17 • Sanja Terlević

What DOAC and DARPA have in common, and what it says about the future of innovation.

Feb 10 • Sanja Terlević

Political Economy Redesign

Building a Democratic Economy for the Machine Age

Part IV of a four-part series on tech, power and economic design.

Jan 28 • Sanja Terlević

How Institutions Shape Who Gains in the Economy

Part III of a four-part series on tech, power and economic design.

Jan 21 • Sanja Terlević

Who Owns the Machines Owns the Future

Part II of a four-part series on tech, power and economic design.

Jan 14 • Sanja Terlević

What Are We Missing in How We Talk About the Economy?

Part I of a four-part series on tech, power and economic design.

Jan 7 • Sanja Terlević

Futures Toolkit

Living with Uncertain Futures

A citizen’s guide to scenario thinking.

Sep 22, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

Futures Sensing for Everyone: How to Detect and Create Signals of Change

A hands-on guide to spotting early signs of change and planting seeds for the future you want.

Jun 29, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

Thinking in Systems, Designing for Change

How systemic design can unlock transformative change.

May 25, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

From Strategy to Policy Action: A Practical Toolkit

Policy Tool: How to break down policy proposals using a simple menu of questions.

Mar 23, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

Imagine 2040: Building the Future with Backcasting

How to use backcasting to imagine the future and map the journey backwards to present action.

Mar 16, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

Top posts

The Rise of Third Places

Oct 6, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

Imagine 2040: Building the Future with Backcasting

Mar 16, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

How Institutions Shape Who Gains in the Economy

Jan 21 • Sanja Terlević

What Kind of Industry Do We Want?

Jun 8, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

From Strategy to Policy Action: A Practical Toolkit

Mar 23, 2025 • Sanja Terlević

Recent posts

Tyranny of averages or why poverty targets risk leaving the most vulnerable behind.

Feb 17 • Sanja Terlević

What DOAC and DARPA have in common, and what it says about the future of innovation.

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When indices become substitutes for action.

Feb 3 • Sanja Terlević

Building a Democratic Economy for the Machine Age

Part IV of a four-part series on tech, power and economic design.

Jan 28 • Sanja Terlević

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Unpacking the policies shaping our future and how we can shape them in return.

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