Presentation deck to the attendees of City Camp London on 3rd March 2011. Describes early thinking by the Movement Design Bureau to

1. Under 2 hours
from London
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2. Wolverhampton
Position the city as engineering-led
Systems thinking meets civil society
and the built environment
Results that work
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6. Key facts
West Midlands. Pop 239,100 (2004), 13th most
populous city in England. Wulfrunians. Market town,
specialising in woolen trade. Then coal, limestone,
iron ore, steel, locks, motorcycles, cars. Now
engineering and services. NOT Birmingham. Once
the world’s largest trolleybus system. First automatic
traffic lights in UK. Relatively old population, with
total population declining since 1970s. Large Sikh
and Hindu communities. Goal is to become a
world-leading cluster for aerospace industry.
“Wolverhampton makes stuff - that’s how we’re
different to Birmingham.” (city chief exec)
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7. Identify a set of
CityCamp
initiatives that can
be undertaken in
and around
Wolverhampton
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8. 4 Focus Areas
Wolverhampton as a liveable, civil city that treats
people with the dignity they deserve.
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9. Radically improve personal
mobility
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10. Transform residential and
commercial space utilisation
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11. Rethink local service provision
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12. Deploy smart energy systems
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13. Step 1
Create a project framework, that
defines the goals and provides a
working brief for all participants
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14. Step 2
Engage a network to gather and share
content that can be used by
participants for inspiration and
background in any activities
(visual documentation, interviews with
people, historical data)
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15. Step 3
Organise a key event that uses that
content.
Define the best projects to focus on
and work with core teams to get
these moving.
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16. Step 4
Get all projects online and align
project funders with implementation
partners.
Run projects using Akvo RSR.
See it happen
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17. @charmermark
@tomwm
mark@movementdesign.org
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