Final session

Co-producing urban research for the future

Key Question

WHAT is the innovative institutional form/platform at the city (-regional) scale which– Enables collective learning processes– Materialises “cognitive surplus”– Manifests different circuits of credibility– Harnesses capacity to work differently • in/on/with place • with a spatial and long-term focus

Institutional form

Collective learning

The meeting of knowledge and the city is a fertile ground for recombining the biological, cultural and political endowment of humankind. Beyond the dominance intentions and internal contradictions of globalism, the planetary knowledge societies of the 21st century will have the possibility for the first time in human history to consciously and systematically develop coexistent rules and systems based primarily on represented realities or knowledge capitals. This may mean an evolutionary leapfrog will be required to overcome the huge environmental, energy, resources, demographic, financial, sociopolitical and cultural crises that we are just beginning to unleash. Carillo et al. (2014) pg 271 Knowledge Markets and Urban Transformation chapter 8 of Knowledge and the City : Concepts, Applications and Trends of Knowledge-Based Urban Development : Routledge

Cognitive Surplus

Circuits of credibility (1)

Circuits of credibility (2)

Circuits of credibility (3)

Place-based

• Research of/on place• Research for/with• Civic mission and partnerships• Multi-layered• “fast” and “slow” • Graft and grow – not cut and paste

Building on…

• “Quadruple Helix” working @ sub-national scale

• Foresight Future of Cities • Urban claims regarding impactful

urban research (REF2014 cases)• Draft paper on co-production (process

across UT/FOC in Autumn 2014)• “Smart client” implications…

Models (1)

• ENOLL / UK Living labs / Other living labs• Carnegie Mellon Model for engaged

university• Regeneration improvement networks• The future cities catapult• Transition towns / Participatory budgeting• Community planning partnerships • Urban rooms Farrell Review

Models (2)

• Boston Urban Mechanics Lab• BMW Guggenheim labs• Playable cities • Global Exchange Festival NYC• Conventional spin-outs• Transeuropa

Explore & Discuss

HOW (with whom?) can we people such a structure?• With what capabilities?• Using what tools?• With what circuits of reward • within and beyond universities?

Table Task

Discuss HOW to co-produce urban research for the future

Suggest models or examples of working with policy and across boundaries for and with places

Reflect on policy insights possible

Bristol Workshop 17th November 2015

introduction

Fellowship 2015/16Urban Transformations and Foresight Future of Cities 2065Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow

COMPAS, University of Oxford hostGO-Science (BIS) sponsorESRC (Research Council) funder

introduction

1. research fields, scanning academic disciplines and the state of the art2. developing research agenda on the future of the city3. networking links and knowledge mobilisation4. influencing emergent networks

What is Foresight 2065?

- Working Papers (16)- Lead Expert Group (28 meetings)- Civil servant support @1VCS- Local projects with unis and without- Special interest groups- CSAG

What is Foresight 2065?

- Working Papers (16)- Lead Expert Group- Civil servant support @1VS- Local projects with unis and without- Special interest groups- CSAG

National Foresight

Foresight City Network City Pilots City Vision

Community

Newcastle:Report

Complete

Cardiff:Just Starting

Manchester:Report

Complete

Liverpool:Complete

London:UCL city leadership

Devolution Agenda/Societal

Challenges

Foresight Working Papers

•Rochdale•Bristol•Milton Keynes

•Belfast•Birmingham•Cambridge•Derby•Derry/Londonderry•Edinburgh•Glasgow•Lancaster•Leeds

•Leicester•London•Nottingham•Oxford•Reading•Sheffield

Other future city/region initiatives• Northern Powerhouse• Catapult – Future Cities• ESRC Urban Transformations • Etc……….