Research & Development

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With so much power at our fingertips, let's focus on what matters

What We Do

A lab for transformative ideas

Visioning Lab partners with organisations to co-design and deliver ambitious R&D — combining systems thinking, rigorous language/standards work, and prototyping.

Co-development & Convening

Partnering with organisations to co-design and deliver ambitious R&D across sectors.

Ontologies & Standards

Rigorous language and knowledge systems work that brings clarity to complex domains.

Evidence to Decisions

Turning evidence into confidence — building tools and frameworks that support better decisions.

Making

Recent Work

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systemsActive · 2026–

Systems Development Framework

A structured approach for defining, organising and acting on complex problems.

AIActive · 2024–

Ontology Maker

Creating shared understanding for complex systems.

ontologyActive · 2024–

Water Infrastructure Ontology

Developing a decision-centred data framework for water and wastewater systems.

immersiveActive · 2023–

Giant Insect World

An immersive experience exploring the hidden world of insects at monumental scale.

VRCompleted · 2017–2023

Collaboratarium

A themed virtual collaboration space for workshops and meetings.

ARActive · 2016–

PopupView

AR platform for phones and tablets enabling cultural partners to commission animated works.

Latest Thinking

Can the British law sector lead on AI?

Law is text-heavy but lacks shared standards, and Gen AI is already leaking unreliable content into legal work. What if British lawyers led on AI design, through case-lifecycle data, law ontologies, and Knowledge Assurance Protocols, rather than following the tech sector?

24 June 2026·8 min read

Thinking

Selected Essays

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18 June 2026·7 min read

Introducing Knowledge Assurance Protocols

How can AIs be better instructed to receive and produce reliable content? Knowledge Assurance Protocols are a set of rules — not a platform, not an ontology, not a dataset — for governing how AI uses knowledge.

8 April 2026·3 min read

Making sense of the decision maker's instinct

Most organisations don't have a data problem. They have a decision problem. What changes when we treat decision making as a system in its own right.

7 April 2026·3 min read

Claude Code makes the result become the beginning

What changes when the gap between an idea and a working thing gets much smaller, and why clarity matters more, not less.

About

Visioning Lab is a hybrid research and innovation lab. We co-develop R&D projects with partners — from ontology and standards work through to decision-centred infrastructure analytics and public-facing immersive experiences.

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Let's work together

We are always open to meaningful collaboration. Whether you have a research question, a project brief, or an idea worth exploring.

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