Autonomy_Urban develops projects, programs and proposals that support new forms of sustainable work and leisure within urban environments, designing radical and pragmatic visions for the future. We help create physical and digital infrastructures for community and economic resilience in the face of climate change, involving data analytics and mapping techniques.

We’ve created the UK’s first green transition database for occupations and industries. Using the unique insights that this affords, we will be advising local and national governments, trade unions and campaign groups on the path the net zero. We consider:

• The feasibility of worker transitions between industries
• ‘Skills gaps’ of all kinds
• The geographic location of high carbon vs low carbon job creation
• The relationship between skills, wages and sustainability

Autonomy’s Feminist Futures Programme is a theory and policy laboratory that seeks to develop visions of the future that can orientate our political and economic actions today. It acts as a node for academics, politicians, research organisations and activists interested in the economic, technological and political questions that contemporary feminism poses.

Advances in digital technology have transformed the global economy at unprecedented speed: from the arrival of the gig economy, to new forms of ‘platform’ and ‘micro’ work. Autonomy_Digital seeks to understand the contours of this digital world and develop its potential towards more sustainable and empowering horizons.

Alongside helping organisations reduce their working hours through our consultancy programme, Autonomy also works at the cutting edge of research into the future of shorter working weeks. Our work looks to enrich our understanding of existing ‘four-day week’ experiements, as well as offer the policy design and modelling required to push shorter working hours into new domains, such as the public sector.

Autonomy has an ongoing research programme into the potential of basic income policy to respond to multiple challenges facing modern societies. From pilot design and costing, to economic modelling, we look to push forward the debate on unconditional cash transfers in social and economic policy.