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

www.britishcouncil.org

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

NeighborhoodsMan – 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 DNAFind the comman DNAIdentifing the RisksAct to eleminate the risksTell a new staryConfirm idetity of place

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us together

doing with peopledoing to the people

participation

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Partnerships

Milda

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

Horizontal links Horizontal links

Соllaboration of diverse community layers and clusters

Соllaboration of diverse community layers and clusters

IT-competenciesIT-competencies Wiki-thinkingWiki-thinking

New communicati

on

New future Consciousness

Many people don’t get what they want

because they don’t know

what they want

Thank you. Any questions or comments?