At the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, we create new ways for communities to use technology to harness their ideas and power to act on the problems that matter to them and create the futures they want.

What we do

We design tools and projects that allow communities to respond collectively to challenges, and that help public and voluntary sector institutions strengthen trust and collaboration with citizens. We help diverse voices to be heard, and for people with different interests and preferences to find common goals. Our approach helps to build community awareness and collective action on issues that matter – from tackling the climate crisis to living healthy lives.

How we do it

We work with organisations to help them understand where and how collective intelligence approaches can help address the problems they’re working on. We apply collective intelligence design – which brings together diverse groups of people, with new sources of data and digital technologies – to develop bespoke solutions to those problems. Through the use of rigorous research methods, we also test and evaluate each solution.

Why us?

Our expertise is grounded in our extensive knowledge of a range of collective intelligence methods and our understanding of which combination is best for a particular problem, as well as a cutting-edge research programme. The Centre’s multidisciplinary team brings skills in participatory methods, research, community mobilisation, data science, design and AI and we have worked with organisations from the UN to the BBC. Our flagship Collective Intelligence Design Playbook helped to define the field and is used by practitioners around the world.

To contact the Collective Intelligence team email us at [email protected]

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Collective Intelligence Design Playbook

Collective Intelligence Design Playbook

Team

Peter Baeck

Peter Baeck

Peter Baeck

Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Peter leads work that explores how combining human and machine intelligence can develop innovative solutions to social challenges.

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Kathy Peach

Kathy Peach

Kathy Peach

Director of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

The Centre for Collective Intelligence Design explores how human and machine intelligence can be combined to develop innovative solutions to social challenges

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Aleks Berditchevskaia

Aleks Berditchevskaia

Aleks Berditchevskaia

Principal Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Aleks Berditchevskaia is the Principal Researcher at Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence Design.

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Joana Murta Rosa

Joana Murta Rosa

Joana Murta Rosa

Programme and Operations Manager, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Joana is the Programme and Operations Manager for CCID.

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Christopher Edgar

Christopher Edgar

Christopher Edgar

Senior Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Chris works as a senior researcher, helping to deliver Nesta's mission by supporting work in democratic innovation, climate-sustainable policy and artificial intelligence for good.

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Rita Marques

Rita Marques

Rita Marques

Collective Intelligence Designer, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Rita is a collective intelligence (CI) designer, helping to apply the CI design process to environmental and health projects.

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Alexandra Albert

Alexandra Albert

Alexandra Albert

Senior Researcher, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Alexandra is a Senior Researcher, leading work on citizen science and supporting wider research into other collective intelligence such as participatory AI.

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Lewis Westbury

Lewis Westbury

Lewis Westbury

Senior Developer, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Lewis joins Nesta as a senior developer with the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design (CCID).

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Esther Moss

Esther Moss

Esther Moss

Product Design Lead, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Esther is the product design lead for the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design at Nesta, harnessing the power of collective intelligence to design digital products & services.

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