Idea: Port as a Pulse, by Dr. Lucy Gilliam and Tanner Tuttle

What if research started from place?
In this episode, we listen to “Port as a Pulse” by Dr. Lucy Gilliam and Tanner Tuttle.
The conversation explores the idea of location-based and long-term research — beyond the limits of short-term, projectified funding. We talk about what it means to fund research that grows from specific places, communities, and ecologies, and what kinds of infrastructures are needed to sustain deep collaboration and learning over time.

What happens when we stop treating research as a series of isolated projects and start seeing it as an evolving, place-based practice?
In this episode we reflect on “projectification” (the tendency to structure research around short-term deliverables and milestones) and how this limits imagination, collaboration, and continuity. We discuss open-ended funding models, yearly consortium memberships, and intermediary organisations that sustain relationships between research, policy, and practice. How can transitions be rooted in place and invite communities to co-own the process of imagining and realising new futures?

Host: Alex Szwaj
Speakers: Jonas Torrens and Mattijs Taanman

Find out more about the idea creators here: Dr. Lucy Gilliam, Tanner Tuttle,
www.oneplanetport.org/

Relevant connections mentioned in this episode:
Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC): tipconsortium.net/
AMS Institute (Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, Amsterdam): www.ams-institute.org/