Future City Game: Ideas from Europe

British Council – Cultural Relations build trust and understanding through the exchange of knowledge and ideas intercultural dialogue (mobility, migration, understanding, tolerance) the creative & knowledge economy climate change British Council - Europe & North America Networks Addressing shared challenges

Creative Cities aims to help make cities a better place to live, work and play … by developing and implementing tools which stimulate social innovation and creativity and new thinking across Europe … by creating opportunities for social innovators throughout Europe to share knowledge and ideas

The three strands of the Creative Cities project Future City Game Urban Ideas Bakery Urban Forum/Creativity in the City

Step 1 : Global challenges Step 2 : Local challenges Step 3 : Perspectives of the city Step 4 : Ideas Step 5 : Prioritising ideas Step 6 : Presenting future ideas Step 7 : Preparing for testing Step 8 : Real world testing Step 9 : Preparing and presenting final ideas Step 10 : Voting

Spirit - Comes from relations Man – man Inside family Neighborhoods Man – place SPACE – RELATIONS –SPIRIT

“Survival kit” – knowledge & skills + INNOVATION CULTURE

Mapping the DNA and Identity Lenka Paivi Starting point of reimagining the city Essential for succcesful visions that actually reflect reality Quantitative and qualitative and holistic mapping Looking to the hard and soft creative infrustructure of the city The DNA/identity is not static, it evolves and mapping is an ongoing process Future City Game can be used as a mapping tool

Reimagining  Maping the DNA  Find the comman DNA  Identifing the Risks  Act to eleminate the risks  Tell a new stary  Confirm idetity of place

me them them us us together doing with people doing to the people participation

me them them us us together doing with people doing to the people participation

me them them us us together doing with people doing to the peopleparticipation

Partnerships Milda a call readiness to deal with complex environments engage in dialogue courage to take personal responsibility openness to unexpected

Horizontal links Соllaboration of diverse community layers and clusters IT-competencies Wiki-thinking New communicati on

New future Consciousness Many people don’t get what they want because they don’t know what they want

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