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How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?
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UPDATED! Dialogue-Booster Park!
Dialogue Booster is a project with 15 local people That will come and play for change in their community. The team leaders will guide them thru the different phases of this 4D project where they dig deeper into the city's core and people!
I believe that in order to get something growing in a city like Detroit we need to ignite the local people, its nothing wrong with getting more companies to the city, its also good. I believe that we also need to get the locals in the loop, and this i want to do thru encounters and dialogs. With an increased number of dialogue we will have an increased number of rising ideas that have taking root between at least two persons sitting, having a dialog.
I would like to create a place in the public, intended only for dialogues.. Let us call it a dialogue-park. Here we will install dialogue-inviting seats. It could be as simple as putting out two chairs facing each other and standing beside and invite people to have a dialogue. Or we could make it bigger and create a space where we meet once or twice a week for dialogues were we are given a topic we can choose to have a dialogue around or not.
When putting out set topics for dialogues we should be aware of that its not the outcome that is of most importance, its the process during the dialogue that makes us to connect to another person that is more important, this will in the end create more vibrancy. The outcome is secondary and its also important to be curious of the outcome and examine it and see what was created and if we can harvest something from it.
Below you can read about one way this concept could be developed that is a bit far from and more complicated then the original concept of the Dialogue park. And I am a bit late with Updating this concept with all the input I got from so many people. so with only 2 days left of the evaluation-phase I feel its not fair to all the people that voted so far to totally change the concept - therefore I would like to leave the original concept as it is and below here you can read about one of many Ideas that the dialogue park raised in my head..
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Engage in projects with optimism
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Work with people of different perspectives and backgrounds
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Ask questions and listen for the needs of the end user
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Search for hidden insights in conversations
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Look broad and wide for initial inspiration
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Develop many ideas and don’t be precious with them
07 /Think big, start small, scale fast
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Nurture failure and mistakes
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Allow processes to produce outcomes
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Work quick and dirty to try many iterations of an idea
11 /Prototype
12 /Implement
The 12 steps above describes how this project could unfold.
This concept is an attempt to help people help themselves and rise from the hopelessness that they may find themselves in when the city and surroundings have reached this stage of economic decline.
It is important that new ideas and initiatives are well anchored with the local residents, and that they feel ownership for the change that may come. it is after all the local people we want to reach.
Dialogue booster is a project that aims in the long run to increase communication between people, and contribute to a positive change in the city in various creative ways. Dialogue booster is a touring workshop / project that installs itself in the cities that may need some startup help to get started to begin to create something that will help them and their neighbors to improve their environment.
Dialogue booster will be facilitate by two team ledars that works with helping and guiding a team of local residents with different background.
We invite people to apply to join our "design team" of 15 local residents from different backgrounds. The team will together with the Team Leaders from Dialogue Booster work in x number of months to dig deeper into what the city might need, by examining its history and people thru different processes, interactive exhibitions and workshops.
In a way one can compare this project with Openideo.com but to do it with 15 local residents that uses the local city and its inhabitants as laboratorium. If they need more data, they simply asks people of the city or invite them to a process or workshop.
Dialogue Booster team leaders will provide the design team with tools, rules and roles and inspiration. To get a kickstart in their project, their first task will be to Facilitate a "dialogue-park" for 1 day, where they invite people from the city to chat in small groups around given topics. The Design team also has the task of harvesting the discoveries which they find in the different groups and bring them back to home base to share and build a foundation from, for their coming work.
During the months the design team will work together, the team leaders will guide them through the four phases of the 4-D model which is
Discover - Appreciating and valuing the best of What Is. Information and stories are gathered about what is working well.
Dream - Envisioning What Might Be. How do we want things to be for the future?
Design - Determining What Should Be. How can we move from where we are now to this vision of the future that we have created? How can we put the ideas into practice? Who will be involved?
Deliver (or Destiny) - Innovating What Will Be. In this phase, practical strategies or projects are put into practice and space created for ideas to flow and develop. There is an emphasis on empowering and encouraging people to take action and carry forward their own ideas.
(Source 4D model & Appreciative Inquiry;
http://bjseminars.com.au/our-approach/appreciative-inquiry/the-4-d-cycle/
http://www.mdf.nl/page/MDF-GENERAL/Information-centre/Tools/Appreciative-Inquiry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appreciative_inquiry)
These phases will each last a couple of weeks so that the design team will have plenty of time to create workshops and installations that include the local people to contribute with their knowledge.
the team leaders will have a frame for how the process will unfold but what will be painted on the canvas will differ for every city. what will be painted in Detroit is what especially Detroit needs.
with this metaphor I mean that we will have the project time line worked out and all the tools to help the design team move forward thru the different phases in the project, but what they will create together is not set.
thru this concept we will incorporate local people to Create within their local community and help them self to create the change that they want. This could result in new companies, new meeting places, new or old ideas that come true. By having a core group of 15 people (that we call the design team) we can have a close group that will work with out any interruptions. At the same time there 15 people will do workshops, installations and research that will reach far more people that will be involved in the project as a 2nd layer.
Inspiration:
http://www.designingdublin.com/
http://www.design21c.com/
http://www.kaospilot.dk/
http://www.slideshare.net/designingdublin/love-the-city-spectacle?from=ss_embed
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How can your idea be scaled so that it's implemented in cities around the world?
This Idea is already scalable, from the organization that we create we can create collaborations with local authorizes and business that want to invest in change in their local communities. after that we can just do they same project over and over again and help cities help them self.
How can your idea be scaled so that it's implemented in cities around the world?
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Evaluation Results 53 people have evaluated this
How well does this concept restore vibrancy to cities and regions facing economic decline?
| This concept will definitely restore vibrancy to struggling cities | |
| This concept has potential to restore vibrancy to struggling cities | |
| This concept will not restore vibrancy to struggling cities |
How scalable is this concept across struggling cities and regions worldwide?
| This concept could be scaled for impact across multiple locations | |
| This concept will take a fair bit of work to build and scale | |
| This concept is not particularly scalable |
Does this concept require a lot of resources (time, money, people, etc) to achieve impact?
| Not really – few resources would be needed to get results | |
| Somewhat – significant resources would be needed to get results | |
| Yes – considerable resources would be needed to get results |
How easy would it be for our community to design an early prototype of this concept?
| Easy – we could start prototyping this today | |
| A bit tricky – but we could figure it out | |
| Not at all easy – we'd need help from outside experts on this |
Overall, how do you feel about this concept?
| It rocked my world | |
| I liked it but preferred others | |
| It didn't get me overly excited |
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