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HYDROSYM: City-Driven Industrial Transition
We are delighted to be a partner in HYDROSYM-2030 – a unique initiative through which the City of Helsingborg and the Municipality of Umeå, together with industry stakeholders and researchers, will explore the role cities can play in the transition to climate-neutral...
Impact Innovation in Helsingborg
We were very happy and honoured to be asked to share an impact story at Helsingborg Impact Innovation Summit along with Jane McLaughlin 17th 18th September 2024. We shared a 20 year tour of some big projects and some ones with more humble beginnings but with big...
A vision for public sector data in Scotland
We worked with our colleagues at The Democratic Society and the Scottish Government on the co-creation of a vision for public sector data in Scotland, through a short-life Horizon Scan Group, coming together into a cohort over summer 2024 in a series of workshops. We...
SNAP Playbook
We led the co-design of this Playbook designed to help cities navigate their journey towards climate neutrality; through a creative and inclusive methodology and suite of adaptable workshops to enable city teams to better align towards a common goal for climate...
Tomorrow Mobility 2023
Ed Synnott participated in a lively panel discussion at the Tomorrow Mobility conference in Barcelona in November 2023. "We are actively exploring innovative governance models in cities to address climate change. In the midst of our climate emergency, transformative...
NetZeroCities conference 2023: mission in progress
City teams, practitioners and the European Commission met in Brussels in June 2023 for the NetZeroCities 'Mission in Progress conference, highlighting the progress over the last year and looking ahead and to share their journeys towards climate neutrality. Over a...
Consumer protection and empowerment for clean energy futures
We supported The Association for Decentralised Energy to co-design and deliver a multi-stakeholder research workshop as part of a larger international research project for Consumers International. This workshop formed a core part of the stakeholder research which...
Co-creating an Innovation Strategy for the Justice Sector in Ireland
The Department of Justice in Ireland includes under its remit a sector which comprises a myriad of agencies, bodies, services, and third party organisations, all of whom strive to deliver a safe, fair, and inclusive Ireland. In 2021, we worked with partners Context...
NetZeroCities
Jane McLaughlin and Ed Synnott have been working with NetZeroCities since early 2022 to advise cities within the EU’s flagship Mission – ‘100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030’ as part of the ‘NetZeroCities’ project. NetZeroCities supports Europe and in...
Data, digital and AI in Scotland
We have been working with the Scottish AI Alliance and the Scottish government on a series of projects to strategically enhance the institutional environment for data, digital and AI. Projects have included: using design thinking and strategic engagement techniques to...
Understanding data and digital transformation for cities
The Lunar Works & Tynos Consulting worked closely with Open and Agile Smart Cities (OASC) who represent cities globally, to develop a wide-ranging white paper with a thematic focus on sharing city data, ownership and control and on what more cities can do to...
Perspectives on resilience for cities: URBACT event
We worked with URBACT to design and deliver the UK sharing event for the UK URBACT Transfer Network cities, taking place in 13 May 2021. Funded under the URBACT Transfer Networks, six leading UK cities including Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Brighton & Hove,...
Driving Smart As Standard Across The Economy
Our Director - City Strategy, Ed Synnott, is speaking at The Association for Decentralised Energy 'Driving Smart As Standard Across The Economy' conference on 21 April 2021. The panel will explore what 'smart as standard' means for cities in the context of net zero....
Far Future Tech: Tech for a Better Future
We designed and delivered the Far Future Tech Mission programme on behalf of the UK Government – a virtual Mission to forge strong connections across UK and European governments. The Mission addresses key challenges and opportunities in tech, and showcases innovation...
New ‘NoiseAbility’ partnership wins bid to put noise acceptability at the heart of cities
The cities of Bilbao and Edinburgh, with SME partners Urban Tide and The Lunar Works (with Ed Synnott of Tynos Consulting), have won a major bid as part of the Horizon 2020 SynchroniCity Programme to invest in new ways noise acceptability can be understood for...
Smart Sustainable Cities Madrid: Transforming mobility in the low carbon city
We were delighted to deliver the recent Smart Sustainable Cities: Manchester workshop for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with Jane McLaughlin of The Lunar Works and Tynos Consulting. Cities from across the UK and Europe, including Madrid, Manchester,...
12 years to change the world
We’ve been busy inspiring city colleagues on climate change! Here’s a film we made to support our work for the UK FCO Smart Sustainable Cities programme third edition workshop (Manchester, December 2018). Made to share! In Manchester, cities from around Europe came...
Smart Sustainable Cities: Energy Transition and Transforming Mobility
Tynos and The Lunar Works are working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deliver the current editions of the Smart Sustainable Cities Programme. With a dynamic 2-3 day workshop format incorporating showcases from each host city, the experience enables cities...
Resilient communications: South East Water
Tynos and The Lunar Works were commissioned by South East Water to build capacity within its communications and customers services teams on ways to make communicating at times of crisis more resilient. The one day workshop followed on from a review of the...
IMO Hub – digital space for Children in Care
We were delighted to be commissioned by The Children’s Commissioner for England, Department for Education to create IMO Hub - a digital space for children in care and care leavers. We brought together our expertise in behaviour and engagement, creative, strategic and...
Smart Sustainable Cities: Programme launch
The Lunar Works & Tynos Consulting are partnering with Future Earth Ltd, ICLEI-Europe and Resilience Brokers Ltd to host the inaugural UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Smart Sustainable Cities Initiative on 22nd - 23rd February in Bristol and 1st - 2nd March...
New website hits the right note
We were delighted to work on a new website for Jessica Dannheisser - composer for film, television, VR and theatre. Having worked with Jessica for a number of years, we were thrilled to work together to create a new website to showcase her work. The new site is clean...
The Lunar Works and Tynos Consulting join forces
We are excited to announce that leading communications and sustainability consultancies, The Lunar Works and Tynos Consulting, are joining forces to bring a new combined set of services to the market. The new services offer brings together expertise in city-region...
Resilience Brokers: Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio
Ed was delighted to be invited to join 22 international resilience experts for one week to develop the implementation plan for Resilience Brokers and Roadmap2030.
Stacking the odds: the uncomfortable truth about micro-business
Ed, with Jane McLaughlin, recently published a guide for micro entrepreneurs on the myths, misconceptions and opportunities in entrepreneurship. The article considers the challenges facing micro entrepreneurs, particularly with regard to funding, and considers how we...