Noel Hatch
@noelito7.bsky.social
Assistant Director for People and Change at @adurandworthing. Inspired by @francescaalbanese.bsky.social
Reflections: tech without imagination is just automation. The future needs culture, not only code.
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Reflections on The Dubai Future Forum
This year I attended the Dubai Future Forum for the first time. The Forum brings together global thinkers, futurists, and visionaries to…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Reflections: tech without imagination is just automation. The future needs culture, not only code.
houdaboulahbel.medium.com/reflections-...
houdaboulahbel.medium.com/reflections-...
What if “citizen-first” was more than a slogan? Public Life’s work asks whether we’re willing to redesign systems around the people most impacted by them.
www.publiclife.org.uk/citizen-first
www.publiclife.org.uk/citizen-first
Citizen First I Public Life
Citizen First will scale the proven citizen incubator model UK-wide
www.publiclife.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
What if “citizen-first” was more than a slogan? Public Life’s work asks whether we’re willing to redesign systems around the people most impacted by them.
www.publiclife.org.uk/citizen-first
www.publiclife.org.uk/citizen-first
Relational practice has history, not hype. Loved this call for an accessible, honest account of where the thinking came from.
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Nick Kimber on LinkedIn: “Hello. Can anybody point me to a decent accessible history of relational practice/thinking/ leadership (ideally short form)?”
[On LinkedIn, Nick Kimber asked: Hello. Can anybody point me to a decent accessible history of relational practice/thinking/ leadership (ideally short form)? I’m writing something on test and learn…
stream.syscoi.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Relational practice has history, not hype. Loved this call for an accessible, honest account of where the thinking came from.
stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/24/n...
stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/24/n...
“Community” isn’t a warm word — it’s a set of relationships that take work, trust, conflict, routine, and time. The British Academy’s final report captures the depth beneath the headlines.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“Community” isn’t a warm word — it’s a set of relationships that take work, trust, conflict, routine, and time. The British Academy’s final report captures the depth beneath the headlines.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
Neighbourhood health doesn’t start with hospitals; it starts with who feels welcome in the conversation. The King’s Fund on partnership rooted in everyday life.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
How To Put Community Partnership At The Heart Of Neighbourhood Health | The King's Fund
How can a community dinner spark a movement? Minal Bakhai, Adam Lent and Habib Naqvi share examples of what happens when trust, shared power and genuine partnership shape neighbourhood health.
www.kingsfund.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Neighbourhood health doesn’t start with hospitals; it starts with who feels welcome in the conversation. The King’s Fund on partnership rooted in everyday life.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
In Catalonia, bread is sacred. Grace isn’t said — it’s baked, shared, and passed between hands medium.com/sharing-food...
Little Bread, Big Grace — Catalonia’s Transformational Offering
The many variations of panellets and blessings
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November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In Catalonia, bread is sacred. Grace isn’t said — it’s baked, shared, and passed between hands medium.com/sharing-food...
When a neighbourhood replaces cars with community, streets start to sound like laughter again.
What happens when your neighbourhood replaces your car: medium.com/crows-feet/w...
What happens when your neighbourhood replaces your car: medium.com/crows-feet/w...
What Happens When Your Neighborhood Replaces Your Car
Life without a car isn’t radical. It’s just better.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
When a neighbourhood replaces cars with community, streets start to sound like laughter again.
What happens when your neighbourhood replaces your car: medium.com/crows-feet/w...
What happens when your neighbourhood replaces your car: medium.com/crows-feet/w...
Public services aren’t products. They’re relationships — fragile, human, and built over time medium.com/design-bootc...
No, Public Services Aren’t Products
As a follow-up from my article on «Why the Product Model Stumbles in the Public Sector», I want to challenge Jeff Pattons idea that…
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Public services aren’t products. They’re relationships — fragile, human, and built over time medium.com/design-bootc...
Service design meets philosophy. When we map meaning, we begin to design for understanding, not just use medium.com/@Will_ander5...
Mapping meaning: Can service design leverage ontology?
I’ll admit it. For a brief and confusing period, I thought ontology hads something to do with oncology. I was reading about the dynamics of…
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November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Service design meets philosophy. When we map meaning, we begin to design for understanding, not just use medium.com/@Will_ander5...
If you’re looking for the next wave of public sector reformers, start with those already changing the system from within. Where are the reformers?: medium.com/kinship-work...
Where are the public sector reformers? Help us find them!
When I joined the Institute for Government in 2013, the Government Digital Service (version 1.0) was in full swing. It provided an obvious…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
If you’re looking for the next wave of public sector reformers, start with those already changing the system from within. Where are the reformers?: medium.com/kinship-work...
Pastitsio is more than comfort food — it’s architecture in layers, memory and warmth stacked together medium.tastyble.com/layers-of-tr...
Layers of Tradition: The Story of Pastitsio
From Its Greek Roots to Your Kitchen Table
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November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Pastitsio is more than comfort food — it’s architecture in layers, memory and warmth stacked together medium.tastyble.com/layers-of-tr...
Art history is full of ghosts — painters who shaped the world but slipped from the narrative.
This one rivals Caravaggio in light and shadow, but history left him behind.
christopherpjones.medium.com/the-forgotte...
This one rivals Caravaggio in light and shadow, but history left him behind.
christopherpjones.medium.com/the-forgotte...
The Little-Known Painter Who Became a Baroque Master
Haunting images of the human form
christopherpjones.medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Art history is full of ghosts — painters who shaped the world but slipped from the narrative.
This one rivals Caravaggio in light and shadow, but history left him behind.
christopherpjones.medium.com/the-forgotte...
This one rivals Caravaggio in light and shadow, but history left him behind.
christopherpjones.medium.com/the-forgotte...
Disassembling bureaucracy isn’t about dismantling structure — it’s about reimagining care.
James Plunkett’s reflection on rules, rhythm and trust: medium.com/@jamestplunk...
James Plunkett’s reflection on rules, rhythm and trust: medium.com/@jamestplunk...
Disassembling bureaucracy
And reassembling something better
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November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Disassembling bureaucracy isn’t about dismantling structure — it’s about reimagining care.
James Plunkett’s reflection on rules, rhythm and trust: medium.com/@jamestplunk...
James Plunkett’s reflection on rules, rhythm and trust: medium.com/@jamestplunk...
The metaphor says it all: bad weather for kite flying.
When the economic winds turn, even good ideas struggle to get off the ground.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/bad-...
When the economic winds turn, even good ideas struggle to get off the ground.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/bad-...
Bad weather for kite flying • Resolution Foundation
Afternoon all, It’s not unusual for Budget plans and numbers to change up until the last minute. But there are three things to take from this morning’s news that last week’s rumoured Income Tax rise…
www.resolutionfoundation.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The metaphor says it all: bad weather for kite flying.
When the economic winds turn, even good ideas struggle to get off the ground.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/bad-...
When the economic winds turn, even good ideas struggle to get off the ground.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/bad-...
Council transformation often comes down to one choice. Do we change how we work, or do we continue working around the problems?
www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/the-for...
www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/the-for...
The fork in the road: Will councils take the chance to transform?
As resources tighten, councils are at risk of diminishing to simply being a provider of last resort, statutory public services. In this blog, Kate Copeland and Ross Murray argue that this can’t be…
www.mutualventures.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Council transformation often comes down to one choice. Do we change how we work, or do we continue working around the problems?
www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/the-for...
www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/the-for...
Public life depends on volunteers, but volunteering depends on hope. If the system erodes that hope, who steps forward?
medium.com/@marthalanef...
medium.com/@marthalanef...
This is public life in 2025, who would volunteer?
Why the BBC crisis is about more than bad editorial decisions.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Public life depends on volunteers, but volunteering depends on hope. If the system erodes that hope, who steps forward?
medium.com/@marthalanef...
medium.com/@marthalanef...
Climate demonstrators don’t just need funding — they need rooms where ambition is co-designed, not prescribed. Loved this open invitation to build the grant call together.
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darkmatter-labs.medium.com/open-invitat...
Open invitation: Participate in designing a grant call for system demonstrators linked to climate…
Belém, Brazil, 11 November 2025. Viable Cities, in collaboration with UN-Habitat and Dark Matter Labs, is inviting urban and funding…
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November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Climate demonstrators don’t just need funding — they need rooms where ambition is co-designed, not prescribed. Loved this open invitation to build the grant call together.
darkmatter-labs.medium.com/open-invitat...
darkmatter-labs.medium.com/open-invitat...
Counterfactuals in policy sound abstract — but they’re really about empathy.
Asking what if helps us see who’s left out of the current story www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/catherine-...
Asking what if helps us see who’s left out of the current story www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/catherine-...
Catherine Charbonneau: Policy Design and Counterfactuals
Catherine Charbonneau explores how counterfactuals might reshape the way we design policy.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Counterfactuals in policy sound abstract — but they’re really about empathy.
Asking what if helps us see who’s left out of the current story www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/catherine-...
Asking what if helps us see who’s left out of the current story www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/catherine-...
Life Itself’s take on developmental spaces is powerful. Real transformation starts when people feel safe enough to grow into who the work requires them to be.
thealternative.org.uk/dailyalterna...
thealternative.org.uk/dailyalterna...
Developmental Spaces: cultural incubators for a time of transformation [Life Itself] — THE ALTERNATIVE
From Life Itself:
thealternative.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Life Itself’s take on developmental spaces is powerful. Real transformation starts when people feel safe enough to grow into who the work requires them to be.
thealternative.org.uk/dailyalterna...
thealternative.org.uk/dailyalterna...
Measurement can connect a community — if it’s done with care.
Six months of DPI insights from IIPP show what learning in practice looks like medium.com/iipp-blog/si...
Six months of DPI insights from IIPP show what learning in practice looks like medium.com/iipp-blog/si...
Six Months of DPI Measurement Insights: What We’ve Learned from Our Community of Practice
By Mitchel Pass
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November 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Measurement can connect a community — if it’s done with care.
Six months of DPI insights from IIPP show what learning in practice looks like medium.com/iipp-blog/si...
Six months of DPI insights from IIPP show what learning in practice looks like medium.com/iipp-blog/si...
A forgotten Spanish painter who rivals Caravaggio — a reminder that brilliance doesn’t disappear, it just waits for us to turn our heads.
christopherpjones.medium.com/the-forgotte...
christopherpjones.medium.com/the-forgotte...
The Little-Known Painter Who Became a Baroque Master
Haunting images of the human form
christopherpjones.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A forgotten Spanish painter who rivals Caravaggio — a reminder that brilliance doesn’t disappear, it just waits for us to turn our heads.
christopherpjones.medium.com/the-forgotte...
christopherpjones.medium.com/the-forgotte...
Local government feels like it’s standing at a fork in the road. Choose transformation, or drift into slow unravelling. Culture will decide which path wins.
www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/the-for...
www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/the-for...
The fork in the road: Will councils take the chance to transform?
As resources tighten, councils are at risk of diminishing to simply being a provider of last resort, statutory public services. In this blog, Kate Copeland and Ross Murray argue that this can’t be…
www.mutualventures.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Local government feels like it’s standing at a fork in the road. Choose transformation, or drift into slow unravelling. Culture will decide which path wins.
www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/the-for...
www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/the-for...
“Bad weather for kite flying” isn’t just about the economy — it’s about confidence, direction and political weather patterns shifting under our feet.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/bad-...
www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/bad-...
Bad weather for kite flying • Resolution Foundation
Afternoon all, It’s not unusual for Budget plans and numbers to change up until the last minute. But there are three things to take from this morning’s news that last week’s rumoured Income Tax rise…
www.resolutionfoundation.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Bad weather for kite flying” isn’t just about the economy — it’s about confidence, direction and political weather patterns shifting under our feet.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/bad-...
www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/bad-...
Public life in 2025: so much pressure, so little space.
Who would volunteer now — and what does that tell us about belonging, time and trust?
medium.com/@marthalanef...
Who would volunteer now — and what does that tell us about belonging, time and trust?
medium.com/@marthalanef...
This is public life in 2025, who would volunteer?
Why the BBC crisis is about more than bad editorial decisions.
medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Public life in 2025: so much pressure, so little space.
Who would volunteer now — and what does that tell us about belonging, time and trust?
medium.com/@marthalanef...
Who would volunteer now — and what does that tell us about belonging, time and trust?
medium.com/@marthalanef...
I wake up. The sun is shining. Some mornings the world feels too much; other days it feels like a gift. Either way, writing helps me listen to it noelito.medium.com/i-wake-up-th...
I wake up, the sun is shining…
I wake up. The sun is shining. The weather feels sweet.
noelito.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I wake up. The sun is shining. Some mornings the world feels too much; other days it feels like a gift. Either way, writing helps me listen to it noelito.medium.com/i-wake-up-th...