…Box. The project facilitated focus groups with young people earlier this year to gather feedback on our resources. This feedback, and our wider work, has consistently shown a lack of…
Volume Up The Pumps
…focus we may find small firms in Wales are out-competed for work by those over the border. These are good, skilled, secure jobs in the foundational economy that Wales should…
Restanza in Blaenau: New Foundational Politics
…research findings inform the foundational politics of place? Foundational thinking involves much more than claims about the importance of essential services provided by the welfare state and utilities. The foundational…
Introducing: Ukraine: What can we do?
…and awareness in Wales. Almost six months after the release of Harry Thompson’s foundational report Our Land: Communities and Land Use, lines are shifting in Wales to allow residents more…
Placemaking, or Life and Death (and Rebirth?) of a Great Welsh Town
…space linking the town to the local supermarket, an integrated active travel hub, incubation spaces for new foundational economy businesses and a high design café linking Pontypool Park with the…
A New Public Square: For a Welsh Media that Serves People and Communities
…see on your news feed might be completely different – the opposite, even – of what your neighbour sees. This new project from the IWA shares with the Bureau a…
Usage and Abusage: A Bad Case of Hiraeth
…presence of absence.’ Declarations like this forget that these foundational events of modern Welsh history aren’t just blasé metaphors to be thrown around like hiraeth to make a vaguely articulated,…
A Vision for Welsh Towns
…of revitalising and reimagining our town centres. Welsh Government is looking at some of the structural challenges identified in reports from Audit Wales and Foundational Economy Research with input from…
An Ambition Worth Having: Physics, Innovation and the Welsh Economy
…in foundational subjects like physics, the edifice you build on top will be fragile. The UK Government is emphasising science and technology unashamedly, understanding innovation as tech-driven and high-growth. The…