3. RUFkit Project Partners
• Scottish Government
• Defra
• Natural Resources Wales
• Natural England
• Landbridge
• South Downs National Park
• Malmo City Council
• Nebraska Rural Futures
Institute
• PLANED
• Staffordshire County Council
• 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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4.
5. Resource to Help Shape Visions
and Plans
• RUFshire
• Sustainability Strategies
• Regional Plan
• Economic Plan
• Neighbourhood Plan
• Rural Futures
• Urban Fringe
• Green infrastructure
• Rural Proofing
• Land Use Conflict
management (A Level
Geography)
• Where process of issue
identification, question
design and rules are just as
important as the answers
given
16. Dicing with Public(s): So What?
• 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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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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18. Concluding 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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Editor's Notes
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.
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.
It is built on a partnership between agencies at different scales and different sectors; each with different needs.
And here they are at one of three workshops that helped us codesign RUFkit.
So this is built on past adaptations and current projects involving different ;publics in different visions and plans in different settings.
It is based on good practice principles with guidance to DESIGN PLAY and EVALUATE
SO suc has the GBSLEWP spatial plan consultation
Malmo City Councils urban fringe strategy LEADER project
Rural Futures Institute Nebraska Plainsopoly exercise including watershed management plans.
South Downs National Park Green infrastructure strategy to inform their local plan
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.
Here in Lewes we see NP group designing questions over a grid using the themes in their NP exercise to date
Here is one of those drafted questions as well as a GI one from South Downs
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.
Then to reflect on your experience. Here is Malmo and Nebraska
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.
It is fun , enjoyable and takes you out of conventional comfort zones.
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.