Isabel’s 2nd Co-Creation Workshop

December 10, 2025

ISABEL organised the second co-creation workshop at The Cumberland Hotel in London, on Friday, 14 November 2025, sponsored by RSA and in the context of the 2025 RSA Regional Futures Conference: https://events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Details/3164542. More than 45 attendants, in person and online, engaged with very fruitful discussions. The project team members presented insights on the conceptualisation of job creation and destruction in the context of the twin transition and on opportunities for harnessing AI and social sciences for evidence-based regional labour market analyses and policies. Then, a group of researchers and experts working on labour markets, AI, regional development, and the green and digital transitions discussed regional labour market transformations in the context of the potential synergies between social sciences and AI to study these transformations, seeking co-creation of knowledge and feedback exchange. The co-creation workshop focused on academia, involving a group of researchers and experts working on labour markets, AI, regional development, and the green and digital transitions, facilitating open discussions and idea generation, seeking co-creation of knowledge and feedback exchange. The goals of the second co-creation workshop were the following:

• Co-creation process: Bringing together researchers and experts on labour markets, AI, regional development, economic geography, green and digital transition to facilitate open discussions and idea generation, seeking co-creation of knowledge and feedback exchange
• Showcasing Progress: Presenting the latest work about conceptualisation of the geographies of job creation and destruction in the context of the twin transitions
• Fostering AI-SSH Collaboration: Initiating a practical AI-Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) collaboration session to integrate expert knowledge into the AI tools and ensure they meet real-world policy needs
• Demonstrating Impact: Highlighting the project’s ability to use AI capabilities (like the ISABEL platform) to foster economic geography research and data-driven policy making for the regional labour markets under the twin transitions