Charles Leadbeater

Associate, Centre for London; Apps for Good

Charles Leadbeater advises organisations, cities and governments on innovation and creativity. He is chairman of Apps for Good and an associate at the Centre for London. His latest book is The Frugal Innovator (2014). He lives in Highbury, North London.

Written by Charles Leadbeater

A small wooden house with a green roof on a rock in the middle of a river, surrounded by trees and distant mountains.

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Home

Nobody is home

From the footloose networker to the exiled migrant, home has been displaced by an idea that’s both elusive and contested

Charles Leadbeater

Photo of an elderly couple dancing in a gymnasium, with another elderly couple sitting on chairs in the background, confetti on the floor.

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Illness and disease

The disremembered

Dementia undermines all of our philosophical assumptions about the coherence of the self. But that might be a good thing

Charles Leadbeater