Brendan Arnold
@brendanarnold.bsky.social
#CreativeTechnologist :: Policy Lab, HM Government :: Tech practitioner/Design thinking/Policymaking/Making :: Cleethorpes/Bristol/London
Friend of mine has merch in the V&A Dundee, unbelievably cool if you are into knitwear and coding (knitware?) and you have some ££ cannot recommend more… shop.vandadundee.org/products/sco...
Alice-Marie Archer | Repairing the Riverbank Luxury Knitted Wool Scarf
Developed in connection with the Garden Futures: Designing with Nature exhibition; this gorgeous exclusive scarf extends the ideas behind Alice-Marie Archer’s Repairing the Riverbank — a large-scale k...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Friend of mine has merch in the V&A Dundee, unbelievably cool if you are into knitwear and coding (knitware?) and you have some ££ cannot recommend more… shop.vandadundee.org/products/sco...
Looking to head up in the new year, last year's was 🔥🔥🔥 - hope to see you there!
217 people have now registered for UK Gov Camp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026.
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We welcome everyone, whether you work with the #PublicSector or not.
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We welcome everyone, whether you work with the #PublicSector or not.
#unconference
October 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Looking to head up in the new year, last year's was 🔥🔥🔥 - hope to see you there!
Studio manager role at Policy Lab! 🎉🎉🎉 - run our team-wide operations in a really amazing policy innovation team in central gov - Apply before 12th August www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
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August 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Studio manager role at Policy Lab! 🎉🎉🎉 - run our team-wide operations in a really amazing policy innovation team in central gov - Apply before 12th August www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
Great paid opportunity for early-stage designers to get experience in a policy design context in UK central government - massively recommended! #PolicyDesign #Placement www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
Applications now open: Policy Lab Design Placements | Policy Lab UK
Applications now open: Policy Lab Design Placements
Policy Lab is offering a limited number of paid placements (~6 months) for graphic designers, other designers and creative practitioners who thriv...
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July 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Great paid opportunity for early-stage designers to get experience in a policy design context in UK central government - massively recommended! #PolicyDesign #Placement www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
Policy Lab are looking for an entry-level film ethnographer to join our team - www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Policy Lab are looking for an entry-level film ethnographer to join our team - www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
People in government .... www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
Are you a UK civil servant looking to build your skills in innovative policymaking? | Policy Lab UK
Are you a UK civil servant looking to build your skills in innovative policymaking?
Policy Lab, a cross-government innovation team, is offering 4–6 month placements for civil servants interested in e...
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June 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
People in government .... www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
What a title… Aesthetics and Communication lead going at Policy Lab. Open to Bristol peeps - 3 of us here already, can we get Policy Lab SW?? www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
🚨 We are hiring! 🚨
Can you be Policy Lab's Aesthetics and… | Policy Lab UK
🚨 We are hiring! 🚨
Can you be Policy Lab's Aesthetics and Communications Lead? We are looking for an ambitious and talented individual to lead the development of Policy Lab's visual aestheti...
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May 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
What a title… Aesthetics and Communication lead going at Policy Lab. Open to Bristol peeps - 3 of us here already, can we get Policy Lab SW?? www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
Running the online debate on the Future of Civil Service Skills with Policy Lab, come join - civil servants only! 👀
If you aren't a civil servant but know a few, please do let them know! - www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
If you aren't a civil servant but know a few, please do let them know! - www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
#civilservice | Policy Lab UK
Policy Lab and Government Skills (Cabinet Office) are calling on UK civil servants to join a groundbreaking online ‘collective intelligence’ debate, using our innovative Pol.is system, to revolutionis...
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April 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Running the online debate on the Future of Civil Service Skills with Policy Lab, come join - civil servants only! 👀
If you aren't a civil servant but know a few, please do let them know! - www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
If you aren't a civil servant but know a few, please do let them know! - www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
🧵 1/3 - Beyond the landscape, recent #Iceland 🇮🇸 trip highlights included a micro-residency at hafnar.haus, talks, discussions, brilliant socially conscious creatives in the former Ministry of Welfare. Lunchtime food parades and possibly the best office view ever ..
March 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🧵 1/3 - Beyond the landscape, recent #Iceland 🇮🇸 trip highlights included a micro-residency at hafnar.haus, talks, discussions, brilliant socially conscious creatives in the former Ministry of Welfare. Lunchtime food parades and possibly the best office view ever ..
Taken by how Icelanders seem to know my hometown of #Grimsby better than people in the UK do. Isolated Icelandic villages often had better ties to coastal towns around the world than Reykjavik. Got quite reflective, took a trip out to the Westfjords - came across a wrecked Grimsby trawler on the way
March 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Taken by how Icelanders seem to know my hometown of #Grimsby better than people in the UK do. Isolated Icelandic villages often had better ties to coastal towns around the world than Reykjavik. Got quite reflective, took a trip out to the Westfjords - came across a wrecked Grimsby trawler on the way
Took some time out from my trip to 🇮🇸 to chat with Josie Maltinsky Gaitens from East of Moon about being a Creative Technologist in Policy Lab ... #EastOfMoonTransmissions #CreativeTechnology -
A Creative Technologist with the UK government | East of Moon
Laboratories for community centred innovation.
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February 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Took some time out from my trip to 🇮🇸 to chat with Josie Maltinsky Gaitens from East of Moon about being a Creative Technologist in Policy Lab ... #EastOfMoonTransmissions #CreativeTechnology -
Love the idea that writing blogs is writing letters to AI
February 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Love the idea that writing blogs is writing letters to AI
🧵 1/4 - In our fortnightly blue-sky session #ImaginationStation we took a closer look at the electronics around us as part of an art exploration. Part of this was logging off of Teams, shutting down the Macbook and removing the back cover to see what was inside ...
February 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🧵 1/4 - In our fortnightly blue-sky session #ImaginationStation we took a closer look at the electronics around us as part of an art exploration. Part of this was logging off of Teams, shutting down the Macbook and removing the back cover to see what was inside ...
1/3 🧵 - Cross government software engineering conference today at GDS Whitechapel, presenting talk on Creative Technology in Government …
January 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
1/3 🧵 - Cross government software engineering conference today at GDS Whitechapel, presenting talk on Creative Technology in Government …
Such a buzzy vibe at #ukgc25 with really some really thoughtful discussions. Policy Lab represent with @prateekbuch.bsky.social and Lara Kinneir - Moawr pls!
January 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Such a buzzy vibe at #ukgc25 with really some really thoughtful discussions. Policy Lab represent with @prateekbuch.bsky.social and Lara Kinneir - Moawr pls!
December 28, 2024 at 1:27 AM
When our #Ethnography researchers showcased this to the team it was amazing to see how the discussion in-game was different to that in the participant's home - two completely different complementary bits of insight, both so rich 💡 openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/11/w...
Why we are experimenting with ethnography in the metaverse
Over the past decade Policy Lab has established a foundational practice in film ethnography. Throughout this time, we have continued to push the boundaries of how this method can support policymakers ...
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December 11, 2024 at 3:18 PM
When our #Ethnography researchers showcased this to the team it was amazing to see how the discussion in-game was different to that in the participant's home - two completely different complementary bits of insight, both so rich 💡 openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/11/w...
🧵 1/4 - I've been tracking the prediction in this 2001 BT Exact whitepaper for well over 20 years now (https://brendan.sdf-eu.org/downloads/the_future.pdf) lots of interesting predictions but perhaps the most interesting thing is how much it said about the time it was written ...
November 30, 2024 at 1:21 PM
🧵 1/4 - I've been tracking the prediction in this 2001 BT Exact whitepaper for well over 20 years now (https://brendan.sdf-eu.org/downloads/the_future.pdf) lots of interesting predictions but perhaps the most interesting thing is how much it said about the time it was written ...
Policy mini games? WarioWare for workshops? A Policy Lab #ImaginationStation session building and publishing experimental games in Downpour (thanks to @v21.bsky.social for the amazing toolkit)
November 29, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Policy mini games? WarioWare for workshops? A Policy Lab #ImaginationStation session building and publishing experimental games in Downpour (thanks to @v21.bsky.social for the amazing toolkit)
Really thoughtful and well presented futures work from Natural England 🍃 'Ecology Re-Wired' at Horizon House, Bristol. #GenerativeAI imagery, natural artefacts and especially love the quiet office pod converted into a listening booth 🎧
November 27, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Really thoughtful and well presented futures work from Natural England 🍃 'Ecology Re-Wired' at Horizon House, Bristol. #GenerativeAI imagery, natural artefacts and especially love the quiet office pod converted into a listening booth 🎧
🧵 1/3 - 'Café Les Négociants' sits on the corner of a busy intersection in Marrakech - people (mostly guys) come here to make deals and people watch. When I arrived I really didn't like the negotiations when buying stuff here, no prices on anything, but after a week I started to get into it ...
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM
🧵 1/3 - 'Café Les Négociants' sits on the corner of a busy intersection in Marrakech - people (mostly guys) come here to make deals and people watch. When I arrived I really didn't like the negotiations when buying stuff here, no prices on anything, but after a week I started to get into it ...
Bristol Urban Forum manifesto event, culmination of a years worth of experiments in Bristol on #CitizenAssembly
November 8, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Bristol Urban Forum manifesto event, culmination of a years worth of experiments in Bristol on #CitizenAssembly
Huge privilege to write about and continue the work here by Amy Ramdehal, Christie van-Tinteren and Stephen Bennett openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/29/a... - "how can Natural England better work with early-stage creatives on protected sites across the country?"
A role for the creative sector in protecting environmental sites
Policy Lab has a 10-year history of convening diverse voices to contribute to policymaking, including those of creative practitioners. Our ongoing collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research C...
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October 29, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Huge privilege to write about and continue the work here by Amy Ramdehal, Christie van-Tinteren and Stephen Bennett openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/29/a... - "how can Natural England better work with early-stage creatives on protected sites across the country?"
Civil servants… 6 month placements at Policy Lab www.linkedin.com/posts/policy...
Policy Lab UK on LinkedIn: Calling Civil Servants for placements in Policy Lab!
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Calling Civil Servants for placements in Policy Lab!
We are looking for existing civil servants who are interested in 6-month placements at Policy Lab.
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October 16, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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At the Vision for #CreativeTech in #Bristol panel talk - very interesting discussion of how we can form a narrative for Bristol in the UK and abroad
October 10, 2024 at 7:22 PM
At the Vision for #CreativeTech in #Bristol panel talk - very interesting discussion of how we can form a narrative for Bristol in the UK and abroad