Publications and Articles

The Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) has just released a series ...

The challenges of 21st century involve changes not only on ‘the way we learn and what we learn but also how we learn’.

This article argues that the 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city.

The article, Urban Legends, is dismantling some of the common urban legends of today and promotes a new approach to city development and innovation. It argues that it is not clear whether the extreme centralization and concentration advocated by the new urban utopians is inevitable -- and it's not at all clear that it's desirable. What if we thought less about the benefits of urban density and more about the many possibilities for proliferating more human-scaled urban centers; what if healthy growth turns out to be best achieved through dispersion, not concentration?

Interactive research
techniques involving visual media are allowing designers to gain
unprecedented insight into areas of social need.

In America and Britain governments hope that a partnership with “social entrepreneurs” can solve some of society’s most intractable problems

In 2010, five of the world's 10 most global cities are in Asia and the Pacific: Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, and Seoul.

Author and social entrepreneur Charles Leadbeater says that new
technology can give ordinary people the means to tackle social problems
in direct, innovative ways.

'In the next few decades, hundreds of millions of young, poor families will migrate to cities in the
developing world in search of work and opportunity (...).

The report argues that innovation is essential for the public sector.