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the ds21 Workshop
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the Design Council
21st March at 10.00am
34 Bow Street
London WC2E 7DL
things to consider
Why we are doing this?
Three reasons:
1) Evaluating ds21 Tools
- enabling ds21 members to test some of our tools and ideas.
2) Knowledge Transfer
- sharing our Metadesign and Synergy knowledge with the Design Council
3) Putting Our Methods to Practical Use
- helping the Creative Lewisham Agency to deal with development inertia in areas of high potential.
Creekside
We will take Creekside, Deptford as a case study. Although the area had been earmarked for extensive development, the Laban Centre still stands alone. We must find a new way to encourage appropriate development in the area.
Andrew Needs a New Approach
The day's timetable is intended to help us to map influential parts of the urban system in order to ‘seed’ a more widespread change. Andrew Carmichael, Director of Creative Lewisham Agency says:
“Using people with very different bits of knowledge I need to rapidly prototype projects so that the shared knowledge can be made manifest. What I’m looking for is to develop a more practical tool, partly because I sit in so many meetings where people are thinking about totally different things and the interesting ideas that come up get lost.â€
The LDA / Creative London approved Andrew's investment plan for a Deptford/Greenwich Creative Hub. It can be downloaded from: www.creativelewishamagency.org.uk/cont/HubinvestmentplanFINAL_000.pdf.pdf
ds21 research during 2005
We hope some of our SynergyToolsDrafts and ds21-researcher-quotes are useful
Working from Experience
Transformations require down-to-earth strategies that will deliver imaginative solutions.
Mapping How Things Really Work
When we explore the reasons why things don't always work, we need to acknowledge negative factors such as vested interest and their context.
See why the above shape is uniquely useful
By balancing a manageable number of factors we may achieve some kind of synergy
Taking a more Joined-Up approach
Our complex mapping tools may come in handy because complex factors are invariably co-dependent to some extent.
A holistic approach may bring about a more inclusive kind of metadesign.
Outcomes of the Day
A More Inclusive Vision
Imagining an UrbanSynergy approach may help us to synergise more political dimensions. See SpaceWarps .
The Economic Dimension
We may offer a radical economic approach
External Resources
The Goldsmiths Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR)
The National Charette Institute offers its system for developing healthy communities
National Charette Institute newsletters keep us up to date
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has policies for 'sustainable communities'
The Walking Bus and other community-centred innovations from David Engwicht
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