Research & Innovation

The Strategy Rooms

“…the public has an appetite for bold net zero policies and people have clear preferences for which policies would work best in the places they live.” (The Strategy Room)

Luton Council were one of twelve Council’s invited to take part in a new pilot research study called The Strategy Rooms, an immersive, engagement tool. The Strategy Rooms uses facilitated discussions, interactive polling and collective intelligence to identify the most impactful climate policies at local level, to help reach a net zero future.

The Strategy Rooms is a collaboration between Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, digital studio Fast Familiar and UCL’s Climate Action Unit.

For more information on The Strategy Room and the results from the survey please visit the Strategy Room website, view the report and follow the ‘explore data’ tab at the top of the page, for Luton’s results. 

Energetic Lifestyles & World Café Guide

“Engaging young people in the development and implementation of carbon reduction initiatives”

The Energetic Lifestyles project explored young people’s perspectives, in establishing an improved understanding of the perceptions and barriers to energy efficient behaviours among young people and ethnically diverse communities. By doing so, the project has identified ways to enhance engagement of young people in particular in discussing, understanding and disseminating critical approaches to the development and adoption of (new) energy efficient initiatives.

The research team used the World Café approach to engagement. World Café is a participatory approach to facilitating dialogue and collective intelligence. The approach has brought much acclaim to the engagement space, and the research team has gone on to produce their own World Café Guide.

Please feel free to download a copy of the world café guide.

Institute For Community Studies

The Young Foundation has recently released a report for the Institute for Community Studies to help understand the role of household and community participation in achieving net zero.

This research – which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and developed with the University of Leeds, University of York and Trinity College Dublin – finds the poorest 40% of households at risk of falling into ‘transition poverty’. It calls for public involvement in a fair and inclusive net zero strategy to mitigate this and outlines eight key policy recommendations.

For a copy of the report please visit The Young Foundation website.