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The Research on Research Institute is transforming research systems and cultures, ensuring that academia and research funders have the evidence to unlock the full potential of the US$3 trillion invested globally in research for public good.
Since 2025, we have collaborated with the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) team to reimagine how they communicate their work, supporting their global vision and mission.
Working closely with the team, we redesigned and rebuilt their website while refining their logo and visual identity to better reflect their mission and support their future ambitions.
The original RoRI logo was linear and flat. We redesigned it as a playful and colourful set of interdisciplinary building blocks – an identity that reads as ‘research reflecting on research’, with the ‘o and i’ representing the digital and quantitative nature of meta scientific inquiry.
“The behaviour of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made”
We expanded the identity into a comprehensive guide and toolkit, showing how the new visual language works across physical and digital touchpoints.
The new website gives RoRI a hub for resources, projects, news, events and team profiles. Custom publication templates support working papers, impact reports and a series of insight and policy documents that highlight the key actions and findings from their international research teams.
We also embedded a not-for-profit chat engine into their site to help visitors discover the diversity of RoRI’s work.
We applied the new identity across all of RoRI’s publications including their reports, insights and working papers, and provided the team with editable templates for ongoing in-house use.
Our work also included developing presentation templates and infographics, as well as creating graphics for the team’s stationery and social media channels.
Metascience is often understood as a way to make research more efficient and effective – more bang for your buck. But in an age of deepening ecological crisis and social division, efficiency alone is not enough.
How might design and metascience help researchers transform scientific cultures and systems, not just for productivity, but for more inclusive and flourishing futures?
The twenty-first century research environment is shifting towards more-than-human practices. It is not only embracing generative technologies and data-centric inquiry, but also confronting deeper questions about value, viewpoint and the philosophical foundations of science.
If you’re exploring the edges of science, systems or society – and wondering how design can support your work – we’d love to hear from you.
