I just received the Korean translation of 'When Science Meets Power' - impressively quick and professional, as with so many things from south Korea (bali-bali as they say) & a day after a fascinating, and big, election win for the Democratic Party.

Join us for a conversation with Geoff Mulgan & Paul Kissack 'How can we land the work of collective imagination in spaces of power?' 2pm, 25th April bit.ly/4ajCnuc Joseph Rowntree Foundation

A nice piece from Bloomberg Cities on tial.org and the need to create new public institutions in cities for priorities such as decarbonisation, mental health and AI bloombergcities.jhu.edu/news/creating-…

Keynes said there's 'nothing a government hates more than to be well-informed .. it makes arriving at decisions much more complicated and difficult.’ Tomorrow's online session (3-4pm) & background paper discuss how govts can try to be better informed.
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A quick reminder of tomorrow's session on 'evidence ecosystems': essentially about how can we ensure that governments are really well-informed when making decisions that shape our lives.

How we ALL reacted to that winner! 🔥

Schopenhauer commented that new ideas are first ignored, then violently opposed, then treated as self-evident. Although the idea of a 'right to truth' is still in the first phase, the second will be v interesting! geoffmulgan.com/post/the-case-…

In his latest paper for IPPO, Geoff Mulgan reflects on the UK’s attempts to create better ecosystems of evidence and the priorities for the next period, both in the UK and elsewhere.

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We are holding an IPPO session on evidence ecosystems, Tuesday 9th April, 3-4pm, with speakers including Will Moy, Tanja Kuchenmüller (WHO), James Canton (ESRC), Jonathan Breckon and Eleanor Williams. My background paper & registration are here: theippo.co.uk/evidence-ecosy…

I'm doing an event about my book 'When Science Meets Power', with Nesta and CEO @ravigurumurthy on Thursday 25 April 6-7pm, both online and in person. All welcome, as are difficult questions & comments! nesta.org.uk/event/when-sci…

Some days London really shines: yesterday we saw Crystal Pite turning a committee meeting into brilliant ballet; Refik Anadol's AI recreating nature at the Serpentine; Ed Burtynsky showing the world as abstract art; ‘Accidentally Wes Anderson’; & ‘Origin’, a film about a book.

Some Sunday evening reading: should we have any rights not to be lied to by powerful institutions? I argue that we should. geoffmulgan.com/post/the-case-…

An essay on truth, the case for a right to truth and penalties for large-scale lying. All comments, additions and suggested improvements welcome. geoffmulgan.com/post/the-case-…

My podcast with Mike Fallat of Million Dollar Stories, covering entrepreneurship, social innovation, self-discovery, corruption, struggle and much more! Mike Fallat 🏴‍☠️📚 blog.milliondollarbookagency.com/geoff-mulgan-a…

This deal is too good to ignore - save 50% on 'When Science Meets Power: 1st Edition', now through 04/04. Geoff Mulgan audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…

As always lots of fascinating detail in the World Happiness Report, out today, with the small countries of northern Europe still out in front in terms of quality of life.

This is an interesting and quite critical review of my book 'Another World is Possible', citing Zizek, Fisher, Castoriadis et al: often the critical comments are the most useful! antipodeonline.org/wp-content/upl…

California has set up a new committee on happiness. I spoke on Monocle today on learning from 20 yrs of global experiments – ministers, budgets, programmes, measurements & action on everything from unemployment & commuting to loneliness & mutual support. calmatters.org/politics/capit…

Some thoughts on storytelling & social/political imagination - in particular, showing how 'generative opposites' create compelling stories of progress (first given as a talk at UAL's Storytelling Institute in Jan)

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I've published a paper on storytelling and social imagination, showing in particular the 'power of opposites' in compelling stories of progress. I gave this as a talk at UAL's Storytelling Institute in January. geoffmulgan.com/post/stories-f…