4 July 2012 - In partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund, Nesta brought together park practitioners, civic innovators, local authorities, community entrepreneurs and those in associated sectors to discuss pressing areas for innovation.

1. Rethinking parks

2. Geoff Mulgan
Nesta

3. The innovation process

9. Customer journey maps
user feedback
rights to time
failure demand
political mandates for ideas
new technology
data and evidence crisis
surveys and sousveys
needs mapping diagnosis ethnography
1. prompts and triggers cost escalation new paradigms
critical walking
reviewing extremes, positive deviance
petitions, campaigns visits
complaints choirs

10. user feedback
new technology
data and evidence ethnography
crisis
needs mapping diagnosis
1. prompts and triggers
new
cost paradigms
escalation
visits

11. Competitions and prizes
Hybridisation, recombination
creative meeting methods
collaborative networks SI Camps
incubation inspiration Idea marketplaces
2. proposals and ideas
Design tools User led design Living Labs
crowdsourcing Skunkworks
Artists in residence Creativity methods
A teams reflection
brainstorms
TRIZ
Staged prizes

12. Creative social design tools
inversion (patients become doctors, farmers become bankers)
^
integration (personal advisers, one stop shops, portals, speeding flow)
∫
extension (extended schools, outreach)
x
differentiation (segmenting services by groups)
∂
addition (getting GPs to do a new test, libraries running speech therapy)
+
subtraction (no frills, cutting targets, decluttering)
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translation (airport management into hospitals, business planning into
t families)
random inputs (eg dictionaries, Yellow Pages)
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Creative extremism, taking ideas to logical conclusions
∞

13. The park as leisure marketplace
Vauxhall Gardens – The Grand Walk c1751 (Canaletto)

14. Victoria Park – entertainment and recreation (1901)

15. The park as venue for events
Victoria Park – Indian Summer Festival (2007)

16. London Bubble ‘promenade’ theatre in parks

17. The park as exercise space for older people
Tai Chi in the park

18. Park gym equipment (Germany)
“Elderly playgrounds” in public parks (in German named Rentnerspielplatz or Fitnessspielplatz)

19. Exercise equipment designed for elderly people in Nishi-Kanda Park in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
To promote exercise for the elderly and decrease dependence on nursing care.

20. Exercises equipment designed for elderly people in Nishi-Kanda Park in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
The kids take over!

21. Vauxhall
egg hunt
Park gym equipment (Germany)
“Elderly playgrounds” in public parks (in German named Rentnerspielplatz or Fitnessspielplatz)

22. Myatts Fields Park – bandstand

23. The park as urban farm
Civic Centre Victory Garden - San Francisco’s Civic Center.
Claiming civic space for food production. Teams of volunteers transformed the site into a
temporary food-producing garden in 2008.

24. Community gardening

25. The park as food court
Craft and food mela, India

26. Barbecue in the park, Hannover

27. The park as play
Bushwaffle project – Rebar (Amsterdam and
San Francisco)
Public space furniture invites new forms of
social interaction, collaboration, improvisation
and play.

28. ‘Play at the World Park’, Central Park New York

29. The online park
Paris – free wifi

30. Surfing in the park

31. The park as cemetery and
cemetery as park
South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, India

32. Spreading the park into the city
Pocket Park - Belfast
Park(ing) Day (2011)
PLACE brought Belfast back from a vehicular scale to
a human scale: the idea was to reclaim space
normally dedicated to the car and creatively
transform it into small public parks.

33. Park(ing) Day – San Francisco
First project that originated Park(ing) Day movement. The project was created to explore the
range of possible activities for this short-term lease (parking), and to provoke a critical
examination of the values that generate the form of urban public space.

34. The innovation process