Major news this week, as we announce the creation of a new book series with Routledge: Econormativities. The series editors are Dr Connal Parsley (Kent), Dr Conor Heaney (Kent), Professor Margaret Davies (Flinders), and Professor Scott Veitch (Hong Kong).

This week the Future of Good Decisions project had the pleasure of visiting SKH, Stockholm University of the Arts, hosted by Petra Bauer and Paola Torres Núñez del Prado. Connal Parsley and Paola Torres Núñez del Prado gave a seminar on “The Textures of Value: Creative Research, Technical Mediation, and Econormativity in the 'Age of AI'".

What would it look like if governments opened up the design of public-facing human-AI decision systems to a participatory co-design process Come and find out! Join us as a participant in "Methexis Park", the upcoming Live Action Role Play for the Future of Good Decisions project!

This week we were lucky to have the opportunity to visit Manchester Metropolitan University to observe one of their People’s Panels for AI – hosted by the estimable Professor Keeley Crockett and Dr Annabel Latham.

This week we reached a milestone in the development of the major Live Action Role Play event that will be held online and in person in March-June 2026. We have at last decided what kind of administrative decision our fictional decision system – which will be designed by LARPing a participatory co-design process – will be tasked with making! This leap forward was made possible through the Research Direction Collective who welcomed Dr Alexandra Sinclair (Sydney) to the process.

The participatory system co-design LARP we are currently developing will be set in a sensor-enabled ‘smart environment’. We wanted to find out more about these contexts and their challenges, so we met with Lynne Falconer (Stirling) for a fascinating chat about her research on smart aquaculture and ‘precision farming’.

This week we were invited to speak about the Future of Good Decisions project’s use of Live Action Role Play as a research method, at the Ada Lovelace Institute in London.

On 5 November we held the second meeting of the Future of Good Decisions Government and Civil Society consultation. At the AHRC-funded session, Connal Parsley, Conor Heaney, and Ruth Catlow presented an outline of themes from the first consultation meeting.