Talk to urban living partnership town hall meeting

1. Slide 1
Dicing with collective urban living
partnership visions
Prof Alister Scott
RTPI and LLM
This brief talk will expose you to a
new tool based on a board game
format that might be useful in
helping to codesign and co create
visions for urban living. So as I start
this talk I ask you all do you feel
lucky.
Slide 2
www.rufkit.org
ES/M006522/1
So we have taken a game created
from a Relu project on Managing
environmental change at the rural
urban fringe called Rufopoloy and
translated it into more flexible
participatory friend.
Slide 3
Project Partners
• Scottish Government
• Defra
• Natural Resources Wales
• Landbridge
• South Downs National Park
• Malmo City Council
• Nebraska Rural Futures
Institute
• PLANED
• Queen Mary Grammar School
Walsall
• Localise West Midlands
• RTPI
• Lewes Neighbourhood Plan
• David Jarvis Associates
• Salford University
• Adelaide University/ South
Australian Government
• Rural Strategy
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It is built on a partnership between
agencies at different scales and
different sectors; each with different
needs.

2. Slide 4 And here they are at one of three
workshops that helped us codesign
RUFkit.
Slide 5 Resource to Help Shape Visions
and Plans
• RUFshire
• Barossa Valley Regional Plan
Adelaide
• Lewes Neighbourhood Plan
• GBSLEP Spatial Plan
• Nebraska Rural Futures
• Malmo Urban Fringe
• South Downs Green
infrastructure
• Rural Proofing Staffordshire
County
• Land Use Conflict management
(A Level Geography)
• Where process of issue
identification, question design
and rules are just as important as
the answers given
So this is built on past adaptations
and current projects involving
different ;publics in different visions
and plans in different settings.
Slide 6 It is based on good practice
principles with guidance to DESIGN
PLAY and EVALUATE

3. Slide 7
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SO suc has the GBSLEWP spatial plan
consultation
Slide 8 Malmo City Councils urban fringe
strategy LEADER project
Slide 9 Rural Futures Institute Nebraska
Plainsopoly exercise including
watershed management plans.

4. Slide 10 South Downs National Park Green
infrastructure strategy to inform
their local plan
Slide 11
Ingredients: Design
• Purpose/Goal
• Board
• Target groups
• Questions
• Rules
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DESIGN
You need a reason to do this and
then you can download set boards
or design your bespoke one using
open source software in our
guidance. You then design questions
in the same way using a grid.
Slide 12 Here in Lewes we see NP group
designing questions over a grid using
the themes in their NP exercise to
date

5. Slide 13
Questions
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Here is one of those drafted
questions as well as a GI one from
South Downs
Slide 14
Ingredients : Play
• Roles
• Discussions
• Data capture and analysis
• Group Consensus vs Conflict
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You then design your rules
Role play or real life
Group decisions or individual
String of questions or one in depth
How to capture your discussions.
Slide 15
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Ingredients: Evaluate
Then to reflect on your experience.
Here is Malmo and Nebraska

6. Slide 16
The Power of dicing with the Board
• Capacity to co-build dialogue
on key urban living issues
• Engagement on an even
playing field /board
• Dice sets the agenda
• Builds rapport and
understanding across usual
and non usual groups
• Power of unconventional
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Which leads to So What
The power of the board
Social dialogue
Engagement on a level board
Diuce as a metaphor for power.
Novel format attracts a range of
usual and unuual suspects.
Slide 17
“It creates a positive atmosphere for
good discussion and dialogue.”
“The complexity of the landscape is not
constructed (so people come to realize how
messy the urban fringe is), and yet it is an
anonymous place which opens up for a more
generous debate on general principles.”
“… an exercise that requires [players] to think
from an interdisciplinary and less parochial
perspective.”
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It is fun , enjoyable and takes you
out of conventional comfort zones.
Slide 18
Key Points
• RUFkit provides a flexible resource to help with
coproduction of a participatory strategy for urban living
• Process by which any vision or strategy is made is as
important as outcome
• Need to engage more public(s) in more novel and
exciting ways
• www.rufkit.org
• Alister.scott@bcu.ac.uk
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So use more flexible tools to aid your
visions and thinking and
engagement.
Think about the process of the vision
and who can and shuld be involved.
Roll the dice and be lucky.