Demos Helsinki´s Researcher Tommi Laitio´s presentation on developing neighbourhoods at the CADDIES seminar at Kanneltalo 6 April 2011.

1. People Make Places
Tommi Laitio | Researcher, Demos Helsinki | tommi.laitio@demos.fi | www.demos.fi |
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2. Demos Helsinki
 Finland´s only independent think tank.
 Focus: sustainable happiness.
 Non-profit, founded in 2005.
 Funded on a project basis by private and public
partners.
 10 researchers, no hierarchy, equal salaries.
 All results public, all research questions serve the
common good.
Tommi Laitio | Researcher, Demos Helsinki | tommi.laitio@demos.fi | www.demos.fi |
keskiviikkona 6. huhtikuuta 2011

3. What we´ve done lately on cities.
Metropolin
hyvinvointi
Politics of Happiness HOAS Lab Consider It Solved Well-Being of The
Manifesto Design Project on Housing Country Brand Report Metropolis
Tommi Laitio | Researcher, Demos Helsinki | tommi.laitio@demos.fi | www.demos.fi |
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4. Happiness.
The Culture of
Better Free Time
Well-Being
Friends,
From Spaces To
Neighbours and
Meaningful Places
Family
Doing Meaningful
Things Together
(Demos Helsinki: The Politics of Happiness Manifesto)
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5. Neighbourhood.
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6. Neighbourhood.
Experts in their own lives
Combining design thinking and
deliberative democracy
Layered mapping
Exchange-based relationships
Thick value
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7. Experts in their own lives.
“Made food for 11
people a week ago, “I looked at the
rearranged the room recycling room and it
and borrowed tables, was really messy.”
“It´s good life – in one´s
own peace and own chairs and plates from
terms. There you can neighbors.”
barbecue on the terrace
and fix the yard.”
I noticed that acoustics
“You should not use seems to be key to
those stairs after seven having a sense of home.
in the evening, just go
around the corner.”
“Wouldn’t want to live
with ´alcoholics´ who
are always partying.”
“All the neighbours said
that this kindergarten is “In Rovaniemi everyone
“Where are the the best.” has their own fridge.
Finnish people?”
(Demos Helsinki: Hoas Lab and Peloton)
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8. Combining design thinking and
deliberative democracy
Connecting
Recognising communities
Prototyping
communities to wicked
problems
Using travel as a tool
10-minute Understanding Reducing need for
for spontaneous
city people´s use of space. transport and travel.
encounters.
Trial and error.
Communities are Creating examples of
Diverse essential in a society good solutions within
Building a a
services of individuals. communities.
relationship of several
years.
Making the issue
Identifying the Shortening the
Deliberative communities affected
understandable and
distance to decision-
democracy by changes.
relevant for the
making.
community.
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9. Layered mapping
Attaching memories to places Enriching history in collaboration
Recreating the neighbourhood
of museum and neighbourhood NGOs
map (www.turku365.fi)
(www.geheugenvanoost.nl)
Tommi Laitio | Researcher, Demos Helsinki | tommi.laitio@demos.fi | www.demos.fi |
keskiviikkona 6. huhtikuuta 2011

10. Exchange-based relationships
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Time Banks
Tommi Laitio | Researcher, Demos Helsinki | tommi.laitio@demos.fi | www.demos.fi |
keskiviikkona 6. huhtikuuta 2011

11. Thick Value
Sports
public investment
+
Co-Op
entrepeneurial spirit
+
community interest
Crafts
Co-Op
Food Co-Op
Tommi Laitio | Researcher, Demos Helsinki | tommi.laitio@demos.fi | www.demos.fi |
keskiviikkona 6. huhtikuuta 2011

12. Quality of Life
(Happiness)
Sustainable
Well-Being
Reasonable Use of
Sustainable Economics
Natural Resources
(Wealth)
(Sustainable Development)
(Demos Helsinki: Well-Being of the Metropolis)
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13. Presentation downloadable at:
www.slideshare.net/demoshelsinki
Tommi Laitio | Researcher, Demos Helsinki | tommi.laitio@demos.fi | www.demos.fi |
keskiviikkona 6. huhtikuuta 2011