UAV day – proposal from Attainable Utopias

AU proposes to run a workshop day in a modified “open space” format.
It would be a quick romp through all the steps from vision to action.
Its aim would be to coalesce groups of common interest
These would include those want to take the project forward and make it happen
It would record the conclusions of the proceedings as a tool for taking the project forward.
AU would supply facilitators and scribes to make the day run smoothly and to record it.
AU would produce a record “Book of the day” - collated in rough on the day - edited within a following day and posted on the UAV website within 48 hours of the event happening.

The” Book of the day” would have the following “chapters”

1) Dreaming the dream - what will UAV look and feel like?
2) Demand specifics - design the dream?
3) Mapping the route - what we need to achieve the dream - what do we have now and what do we need?
4) Branding - making the dream visible to others
5) Next steps
6) Contacts for network

PROPOSED TIMETABLE

Intro - models of where it has been done before

12.30 - 13.00 - this would be a quick presentation of some inspirational models by invited speakers
13.00 - 14.00 – First sessions
Sessions happen in parallel
After the first 10 minutes participants are free to move between groups as they feel - "rule of two feet" open space style

Dreaming the dream - what will UAV look and feel like?

The feel?
The people?
The values?
The....???

Demand specifics

Design the dream? Modeling the dream
(could actually make a simple card model of what UAV would be like?)

How big?

How much would a studio cost?
How many studios?
What size?
Where do we want it?
What else?

Mapping the route

What we need to achieve the dream
What do we have now and what do we need?

The network that will make it happen?

Who are the advisory team?
Who are the delivery team?
Who are the communications team?

The resources

The place
The skills
The...???

Break 14.00 - 14.30

Second sessions - 14.30 - 15.30

Sessions happen in parallel
After the first 10 minutes participants are free to move between groups as they feel - "rule of two feet" open space style

Branding

=making the dream visible to others

clarifying identity

seeing its constituency
owning the brand
investing in the brand
who do we sell to?
who would support the brand?
who...???

Next steps

What are the next 5 things the group need to do to start on the road to making it happen?
First step
Second step
Third step
Fourth step
Fifth step

Round up

Rport back and vision check 15.30 - 16.00
(each session has 5 minutes to report back to the group and ask for a “vision check” form the rest of the group)
from session 1)
from session 2)
from session 3)
from session 4)
from session 5)

Contacts

John Wood - 0207 919 7794
Andrew Carmichael – 0208 691 6729