The UK’s Policy Lab is using co-design and games to rethink both the solutions and problems of government — without a budget

The UK’s Policy Lab has spent the past five years using innovative tools to reimagine policy. How do they make it work?

Plenty of public servants are curious about policy labs and design thinking, but governments still aren’t quite sure about them.

The world’s first and most well-known, Denmark’s MindLab, was shut down in 2018 after 16 years.

Yet they’re also spreading — there are at least 26 such public sector innovation units across Australia and New Zealand, and many more across the world.