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Posts by Vicky Payne
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2026?!
Come on man isn't this all just a series of continuously evolving states? Don't box me in like that
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White serif text on blue background. Design for Entropy. Neighbourhoods, systems and the art of simplicity
New piece: neighbourhoods and policy systems degrade in the same way - what might it look like to design for entropy?
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Turns out Queen Victoria and I don’t just share a name but an affliction (seasickness) and a resultant interest in tunnelling under rather floating across stretches of water.
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Wonderful when a line of curiosity springs up and there is a podcast already in the ether on that very topic.
Do you too want to know the conceptual, political, cultural and financial history of the channel tunnel?! Well- here you go:
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My audio companions on the train to Wales:
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5. Beginning the judging process for this year’s Housing Design Awards, with site visits to follow in April
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3. Leading work on adoption processes + design outcomes as part of the MHCLG consultation on private estate management (reporting to government in early April)
4. Shaping the Hub’s evolving role in nature policy, from BNG and Homes for Nature through to wider strategic policies (EDPs/NRF + more)
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1. Working with MHCLG to convene developers and LPAs to explore how design quality and process efficiency can be strengthened at outline stage
2. Bringing together industry perspectives on the draft Design and Placemaking PPG, and supporting the next phase of model site code testing
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Brief reflections on Q1
A lot of this quarter has been about joining the dots between different policy areas (water, nature, design, planning, stewardship) and engaging with the interplay of quality and delivery.
Some highlights:
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www.mckinsey.com/solutions/or...
Interested in the concept of an “Organisational Health Index”
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A lot from this can be applied to improving the planning and development system as a whole, bringing forward specific policy initiatives and to long term development sites
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3 weeks ago
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Thoughts on New Towns, National Housing Bank, design quality and delivery
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Emerging into a perfect early spring evening after shortlisting for the Housing Design Awards.
Design = more essential than ever as a route to the best possible outcomes in a constrained delivery context.
Excited to see some great northern schemes giving hope for addressing UK design inequality.
1 month ago
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Isaac Julien at Victoria Miro
Beauty, complexity, layered imagery all held in the darkness and enclosure of the room and soundscape. Tone of hopeful wisdom, like receiving a prophecy. Enough narrative to give form, enough ambiguity to feel potent
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1 month ago
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First substack on Citrini, unstable systems and a return to superstition
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I keep thinking about the body in all this too. About our physicality, about nature, about the inherent balance of natural systems and how few steps there used to be in the feedback loops between our selves and those systems.
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It doesn’t feel like input into a system, output out of the system.
It feels like say these words, do this thing and hopefully the sun will come up again tomorrow, the crops won’t fail
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and in this world we don’t understand and can’t control, policy actions, think pieces, business decisions start to feel more like bargaining chips with the gods- prophecies, doom-saying, spell casting, manifestations.
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We built and analysed and contained and systematised, but what we have created feels more and more like chaos.
Entropy baby - I guess it’s inescapable
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It feels like humanity, having progressed from our terrified “not knowing” at the mercy of nature through all the understanding, control, architectures and structures of the modern world, is somehow retuning to a state of not knowing, not being able to predict, not being in control
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“when the hedges grow faster than the gardeners can trim them, when the system calcifies into something no one can move through — we do not attempt to work the land of the existing Versailles. We do not call in Brown. We build a new Versailles next door”
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Framed as a counterpoint to Citrini, but wildly interesting in its own right.
Feels very relevant to thinking about the planning and development system.
1 month ago
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Reminded me of Adam Curtis “Shifty” in the exposure of how long established and dearly held “truths” can break down
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www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
super interesting in many ways but primarily on the idea of “non cyclical cycles”, broken feedback loops and an absence of systemic self correction.
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The next right action drifts up, the next idea presents itself, the next work block feels alive and productive.
More of the art practice here:
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Persisting only with nothing is, as you’d expect, unproductive.
But persisting only with something eventually seems to lead there too. The system gets congested and grinds to a halt.
Gently cycling between the two; loading the system, then giving it space, seems to generate momentum.
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Woman sitting in front an an incomplete cool toned abstract painting in blues
I’ve been painting more this year.
It seems to need the same interplay of something + nothing that I recognise from strategic work.
Something = attention, planning, discussion, analysis, research.
Nothing = deliberate inattention, void, stepping away, moving the body, letting the mind wander.
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