Urban renewal: Innovation not war

David Barrie

• Project design and delivery• Stakeholder management• Urban renewal/development consultancy• Communications design

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“To make a big splash in the global pond of spectacle

culture today, you have to have a big rock to drop.”

Hal Foster, Art Critic

• Principle of mutualism

• Collaborative design

• Privatizating public services

• Rise of public-private partnerships

• Rise of Web 2.0 and crowdsourcing

• Building networks of people and projects• Fostering new relationships• Creating better city experiences• Improving quality of life• Creating opportunities for creativity• Generating financial investment

• Public realm improvement project: Castleford, Yorkshire

• New land use project: Middlesbrough, Tees Valley

• Social investment programme: Cardiff, Wales

Alison Drake

Chair, Castleford Heritage Group

Former Primary School Teacher

Wendy Rayner

Vice-chair, Castleford Riverside Group

Former cook in old people’s home

Rheta Davison

Secretary, Custyke Community Group

Former cleaner

Lol Coxhill in a skip Concept Simon Thackray. Produced by The Shed. Photo: Tony Bartholomew

Lol Coxhill in a skip Concept Simon Thackray. Produced by The Shed. Photo: Tony Bartholomew

• 10 new public spaces• Over 10,000 people involved in process of urban

renewal• 3 new community groups formed, now in their fifth

year• £100,000 (4m руб) first grant → £14.5m (623 руб)

capital programme → £230m (9,891m руб) new leveraged investment

• Four projects now in second phase• Media coverage - all UK newspapers• Exhibited in 12 nations

• 61 growing groups, 250 growing sites, 1000 new ‘urban farmers’, 750 playground participants, 6000 visitors to town meal, 2500 guests

• Project repeat 2008 and 2009• Adapted spatial plan for use of public spaces

in town• £8m new investment in health improvement in

town - growing food at centre of plan

• “Unofficial mayors” project team• Good Neighbors Project• Postmen, taxi drivers, small businesses• Workshops: Construction Skills, Housing and

Healthcare policy• Development of ‘meanwhile uses’

Butetown on the Net

• Butetown.org

• Facebook: Tiger Bay 2020, Tiger Bay & Butetown Re-united, Tiger Bay Warriors

• My Space:strickly rockerz

• Bebo: Remembering Tiger Bay

• Flickr: Tiger Bay Ramblers, Cardiff Bay

• Build consensus

• Build capacity

• Create confidence

• Create value

• Be different

• Encourage innovation

• Aggregate initiative

• Engage stakeholders

• Foster shareholders

• Build from grassroots

• Make it personal

• Make it fun

• Make it creative

• Make it real

“We have idols but no models to follow. You have to define your own model.”

- Nicolas Ghesquiere, Balenciaga

David BarrieDavid Barrie & Associates

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