This presentation introduces a framework for creating socially sustainability places. Future Communities is a partnership between the Young Foundation and local partners in the UK, Europe and Asia, exploring how to make new communities places that work socially in the long term.
Report of Social Life's work exploring how Malmö City can think about the comprehensive social and physical regeneration of its lower income neighbourhoods, by developing a new approach to placemaking that has the potential to be funded through social investment.
Presentation to the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) North America Conference in Winnipeg on the design assistance progress, it's adapted models, and how it applies to a variety of community settings.
The role of co ops in local economic renewalEd Mayo
Can you turn around neighbourhoods and foster sustainable renewal? Drawing on work I have been involved in over time, with hopeful examples and practical health warnings, this deck explores the role of co-operatives and community economic development.
Ageing Well - Vicki Sellick presentation to the Leadership AcademyNMJones
Vicki Sellick from the Young Foundation presents: "Innovation: Ideas for applying the Big Society ethos to older people's services and how to think differently to find more effective ways of delivering services.
Report of Social Life's work exploring how Malmö City can think about the comprehensive social and physical regeneration of its lower income neighbourhoods, by developing a new approach to placemaking that has the potential to be funded through social investment.
Presentation to the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) North America Conference in Winnipeg on the design assistance progress, it's adapted models, and how it applies to a variety of community settings.
The role of co ops in local economic renewalEd Mayo
Can you turn around neighbourhoods and foster sustainable renewal? Drawing on work I have been involved in over time, with hopeful examples and practical health warnings, this deck explores the role of co-operatives and community economic development.
Ageing Well - Vicki Sellick presentation to the Leadership AcademyNMJones
Vicki Sellick from the Young Foundation presents: "Innovation: Ideas for applying the Big Society ethos to older people's services and how to think differently to find more effective ways of delivering services.
This presentation describes Social Life's work with the City of Malmö's Environment Department to develop a new placemaking model that can be funded by social investment. This work is part of the City's "Regeneration Dialogue", which aims to comprehensively regenerate the City's 1960's and 1970's apartment blocks. The work is part of the Social Life of Cities collaborative - a global innovation program run in partnership with Cisco and the Young Foundation.
This presentation was made at a TelePresence bringing together placemaking experts and city stakeholders from Malmo, Brussels, Chicago, New York, London and Seoul.
The interactive structure of CatalystWest produced clear and concise findings.
Detailed results of the forum’s hacks and real-time polling are included later in this report. The findings summarised here, however, cut to the chase. They illustrate what is occurring in Western Sydney in four key areas: accessibility; sustainability; wellbeing and innovation. And they spell-out what needs to happen next.
These findings and recommendations will be presented to local, state and federal government representatives at the highest levels as a direct message from the people of Western Sydney. They will also be the benchmarks assessed at the next major CatalystWest forum, and monitored with our partners in the intervening period.
Professor Katie Williams - Director of the Centre for Environment and Planning, UWE - delivers a speech to SWO Conference delegates on how through housing planners might help to 'realise prosperity'.
Briefing Breakfast: Retirement living considerations for the modern ageILC- UK
Living longer and more actively, the retiree cohort is changing. This growing demographic have higher service, lifestyle and leisure expectations. As a result, the residential property sector must adapt their service proposition.
SPEAKERS
Dr Brian Beach – Senior Research Fellow, ILC
John O'Brien – Associate Director, Construction Innovation, BRE Group
Samantha Gibson – Director, FirstPort Retirement Property Services
In collaboration with the Dublin City Council, the American Institute of Architects is providing technical assistance for the development of a Design Action Team program pilot in Dublin, Ireland. This presentation, delivered on June 29, 2015 at the Dublin Science Gallery, provides an overview of the design assistance process and its potential application to the city of Dublin.
Homeownership IS a sustainable option for people who are homelessFEANTSA
Presentation given by Loucine Hayes, Habitat for Humanity, Slovakia at a FEANTSA conference on "People who are homeless can be housed:
An insight into successful practices from across Europe", Cardiff, Wales, 2008
Will the art of fundraising and community engagement change as we move out of the Information Age and into the Age of Transformation? What are the generational differences between the 'Adopters' (Matures, Boomers, GenX) and the 'Transformers' (GenY, GenZ, Alpha)? Presented by Lee Fox for the Getty Leadership Institute on June 11th, 2014, the biggest take-away is that just like any other non-profit or community organization, museums have to focus on communicating "impact" in order to ensure they are able to grow their charitable donations.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, people without access to the internet were already at a severe disadvantage in terms of accessing essential goods, services, job opportunities and financial support. The pandemic has dramatically exacerbated this situation. People — many for the first time — have increasingly had to rely on the internet and digital devices to get things done, and to participate fully in society.
In this webinar we presented and discussed the key findings from our research with Citizens Online. The aim of the research was to explore the digital experiences of older adults, and the organisations supporting them during the pandemic.
Find out more: https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/events/digital-skills-connect-webinar
Presentation to the AIAS Grassroots conference, Washington, DC, July 2015 covering global issues, the designer democracy challenge, and inspiring community case studies that demonstrate the collective impact of community collaboration.
Providers of housing schemes for older people face a unique challenge to promote the social inclusion of their residents from socially diverse backgrounds. New lessons from the Diversity in Care Environments (DICE) project are being developed to provide resources to improve the social connections of such residents, bolster against social exclusion and social isolation, and promote social cohesion in housing with care and support schemes in England and Wales. The project has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
This webinar presented key findings from the first phase of the DICE project, a 2.5-year research study based at the University of Bristol in collaboration with ILC and the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (Housing LIN). This phase covered a survey of 700+ residents aged 60+ currently living in housing schemes across England and southeast Wales. Findings informed housing practitioners and officers, providers, professionals in health and social care working with older adults, and policymakers.
The webinar also featured a panel discussion with Housing LIN and Brunelcare, a Bristol-based housing provider, discussing the implications of the research findings for the housing with care sector, including in the context of the challenges due to COVID-19.
Speakers included:
Dr Paul Willis, Senior Lecturer in Social Work with Adults, University of Bristol
Dr Brian Beach, Senior Research Fellow, ILC
Jeremy Porteus, Chief Executive, Housing LIN
Jane Ashcroft CBE, Chief Executive, Anchor Hanover
Christina Rees, Community Services Manager, Brunelcare
This chapter discusses international social work and global issues currently addressed by social workers throughout the world. This chapter also briefly identifies the major issues relating to the future of social welfare and social justice in the United States and the world and probable directions that the profession of social work will take in addressing them. The profession of social work is increasing in all areas and the need for social workers is increasing worldwide.
Presentation by Nicola Bacon from a debate hosted by John Thompson & Partners as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
For more on the event see:
http://www.social-life.co/news/post/what-can-designers-do-for-cities/
This presentation describes Social Life's work with the City of Malmö's Environment Department to develop a new placemaking model that can be funded by social investment. This work is part of the City's "Regeneration Dialogue", which aims to comprehensively regenerate the City's 1960's and 1970's apartment blocks. The work is part of the Social Life of Cities collaborative - a global innovation program run in partnership with Cisco and the Young Foundation.
This presentation was made at a TelePresence bringing together placemaking experts and city stakeholders from Malmo, Brussels, Chicago, New York, London and Seoul.
The interactive structure of CatalystWest produced clear and concise findings.
Detailed results of the forum’s hacks and real-time polling are included later in this report. The findings summarised here, however, cut to the chase. They illustrate what is occurring in Western Sydney in four key areas: accessibility; sustainability; wellbeing and innovation. And they spell-out what needs to happen next.
These findings and recommendations will be presented to local, state and federal government representatives at the highest levels as a direct message from the people of Western Sydney. They will also be the benchmarks assessed at the next major CatalystWest forum, and monitored with our partners in the intervening period.
Professor Katie Williams - Director of the Centre for Environment and Planning, UWE - delivers a speech to SWO Conference delegates on how through housing planners might help to 'realise prosperity'.
Briefing Breakfast: Retirement living considerations for the modern ageILC- UK
Living longer and more actively, the retiree cohort is changing. This growing demographic have higher service, lifestyle and leisure expectations. As a result, the residential property sector must adapt their service proposition.
SPEAKERS
Dr Brian Beach – Senior Research Fellow, ILC
John O'Brien – Associate Director, Construction Innovation, BRE Group
Samantha Gibson – Director, FirstPort Retirement Property Services
In collaboration with the Dublin City Council, the American Institute of Architects is providing technical assistance for the development of a Design Action Team program pilot in Dublin, Ireland. This presentation, delivered on June 29, 2015 at the Dublin Science Gallery, provides an overview of the design assistance process and its potential application to the city of Dublin.
Homeownership IS a sustainable option for people who are homelessFEANTSA
Presentation given by Loucine Hayes, Habitat for Humanity, Slovakia at a FEANTSA conference on "People who are homeless can be housed:
An insight into successful practices from across Europe", Cardiff, Wales, 2008
Will the art of fundraising and community engagement change as we move out of the Information Age and into the Age of Transformation? What are the generational differences between the 'Adopters' (Matures, Boomers, GenX) and the 'Transformers' (GenY, GenZ, Alpha)? Presented by Lee Fox for the Getty Leadership Institute on June 11th, 2014, the biggest take-away is that just like any other non-profit or community organization, museums have to focus on communicating "impact" in order to ensure they are able to grow their charitable donations.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, people without access to the internet were already at a severe disadvantage in terms of accessing essential goods, services, job opportunities and financial support. The pandemic has dramatically exacerbated this situation. People — many for the first time — have increasingly had to rely on the internet and digital devices to get things done, and to participate fully in society.
In this webinar we presented and discussed the key findings from our research with Citizens Online. The aim of the research was to explore the digital experiences of older adults, and the organisations supporting them during the pandemic.
Find out more: https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/events/digital-skills-connect-webinar
Presentation to the AIAS Grassroots conference, Washington, DC, July 2015 covering global issues, the designer democracy challenge, and inspiring community case studies that demonstrate the collective impact of community collaboration.
Providers of housing schemes for older people face a unique challenge to promote the social inclusion of their residents from socially diverse backgrounds. New lessons from the Diversity in Care Environments (DICE) project are being developed to provide resources to improve the social connections of such residents, bolster against social exclusion and social isolation, and promote social cohesion in housing with care and support schemes in England and Wales. The project has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
This webinar presented key findings from the first phase of the DICE project, a 2.5-year research study based at the University of Bristol in collaboration with ILC and the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (Housing LIN). This phase covered a survey of 700+ residents aged 60+ currently living in housing schemes across England and southeast Wales. Findings informed housing practitioners and officers, providers, professionals in health and social care working with older adults, and policymakers.
The webinar also featured a panel discussion with Housing LIN and Brunelcare, a Bristol-based housing provider, discussing the implications of the research findings for the housing with care sector, including in the context of the challenges due to COVID-19.
Speakers included:
Dr Paul Willis, Senior Lecturer in Social Work with Adults, University of Bristol
Dr Brian Beach, Senior Research Fellow, ILC
Jeremy Porteus, Chief Executive, Housing LIN
Jane Ashcroft CBE, Chief Executive, Anchor Hanover
Christina Rees, Community Services Manager, Brunelcare
This chapter discusses international social work and global issues currently addressed by social workers throughout the world. This chapter also briefly identifies the major issues relating to the future of social welfare and social justice in the United States and the world and probable directions that the profession of social work will take in addressing them. The profession of social work is increasing in all areas and the need for social workers is increasing worldwide.
Presentation by Nicola Bacon from a debate hosted by John Thompson & Partners as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
For more on the event see:
http://www.social-life.co/news/post/what-can-designers-do-for-cities/
Social sustainability is overlooked in mainstream sustainability debates. What does it take to create new communities that work socially, as well as economically and environmentally?
Presentation from the second of two workshops run by Social Life and Cisco about using digital technology to build resilient communities in Chicago's South Side.
Designing for social sustainability, presentation to RTPI Scotland 7th Octobe...social_life_presentations
Nicola Bacon's presentation to RTPI Scotland's centenary conference in Glasgow in October 2014 on Social Life's work on social sustainability, how this can be understood, actioned and measured.
This presentation was given by Saffron Woodcraft, keynote speaker at the Asia/Pacific International Conference on Environment-Behaviour Studies (AicE-Bs).
http://fspu.uitm.edu.my/cebs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=227&Itemid=144
NCBOR 2014 | How social enterprises work in the (green) maintenance of public...CROW
In de UK is het veel gebruikelijker dat bewoners en bedrijven (mede)verantwoordelijk zijn voor hun directe leefomgeving. Premier David cameron maakt zich hard voor het ontwikkelen van de "Big Society" om locale gemeenteschappen meer kracht te geven. Onze hoofdspreker Steve Clare van Locality, een Britse netwerk van vijfhonderd buurtbeheerorganisaties, vertelt ons over zijn praktijkervaringen in de UK. Hoe zijn de locale bewoners actief in het beheer van hun buurt? Wat levert dat de buurten en de gemeente op? Met welke wetgeving en organisatievormen hebben ze dat voor elkaar gekregen? En wat kunnen wij in Nederland van hen leren? Doen wij al veel aan bewonersparticipatie, of staan wij pas aan het begin van een onomkeerbare verandering...?
This presentation was used at the NCVYS & Children England Speaking Out annual conference 2010 (funded by the Cabinet Office).
For more details, please contact press@ncvys.org.uk
This session on how to engage residents in community change efforts was the first in the Community Matters webinar series from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Connected Communities Sir Alan Wilson and Shearer West presentation June 2009
Young Foundation Social Sustainability
1. Future Cities, Future Communities
Practical ways to make new places socially sustainable
SIX in the City, Singapore
September 17th 2010
Slide 1 The Young Foundation 2010
2. •A new international partnership between the Young Foundation, local
authorities, government agencies and housing providers
•Exploring practical ways that new cities, towns and communities can
succeed as communities where people want to live
•Build a practical understanding of what can be done to encourage the
factors that promote the idea of community, social networks,
engagement, belonging and long term stewardship
•Drawing on the best of what is known, and what is being explored, in
the UK and internationally
Slide 2 The Young Foundation 2010
3. What is a community?
The mainstream view
• Governance
• Social and Cultural
• Housing & the built
environment
• Economy
• Environmental
• Services
• Transport & Connectivity
Source: Egan Review: skills for sustainable communities, 2004
4. Our starting point: an alternative view
• Physical boundaries to promote
geographical identity
• Rules and laws specific to the area, e.g.
car free areas
• Local myths & stories
• Visible leadership
• Strong social relationships, networks &
bonds
• Rituals and rhythms
• Possibly shared belief system, e.g.
garden cities, new towns, eco-cities
5. Partners and
emerging
work
Slide 5 The Young Foundation 2010
6. Our partners
•Homes and Communities Agency
•Local Government Improvement & Development
•Barking Riverside, Barking & Dagenham, East London
•Lozells & Handsworth, Birmingham
•Buckingham Park, Aylesbury Vale
•Peabody Trust (Whitecross Street & Lillie Road estates,
London)
•Malmö, Sweden
Slide 6 The Young Foundation 2010
7. Barking Riverside, East London – a large scale regeneration scheme that will
house 26,000 people over the next 10 years
Slide 7 The Young Foundation 2010
9. Testing new framework for designing in social sustainability
Buckingham Park, 2010
Slide 9 The Young Foundation
Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire
10. Wired neighbourhoods: exploring local social media and building social capital,
Slide 10 The Young Foundation 2010
Whitecross Street estate, London. Peabody Trust
11. Birmingham CC: Viewing lessons learnt
from Community Land Trusts & seeing if it
will work as a model for Birmingham.
Lozells and Handsworth
Exploring role for community land trusts to create local housing and build social
capital The Young Foundation 2010
Slide 11
Lozells and Handsworth, Birmingham
13. Building a business case for social
sustainability
•Work for the Homes and Communities Agency
•Review of international evidence to create business case
and practical tools for understanding & “designing in”
social sustainability in new communities
•Aim to influence stakeholders involved in creating new
places: master planners, local government
housing/regeneration/planning departments, central
government departments, architects, developers
Slide 13 The Young Foundation 2010
14. Evidence base
•Review of international evidence and practical experience
•Drawing on wide range of academic work, policy
research, case studies and new town evaluations from UK,
Europe, US, Egypt, Malaysia, China and India
•What makes a flourishing community?
•What works in creating successful new places?
•What lessons can be learnt from the successes and failures
of previous new communities?
Slide 14 The Young Foundation 2010
15. A framework
for social
sustainability
Slide 15 The Young Foundation 2010
16. Four key elements needed to create
socially successful and sustainability
new communities - alongside quality
built environment, economic and
environmental sustainability
Slide 16 The Young Foundation 2010
17. Key findings from English new towns
• World’s most sustained new town programme (1950s to
70s – 32 new towns created, 3 million residents)
•Often tensions between newly arrived and established
communities
• Can take up to 15 years before residents establish social
networks (evidence from Telford)
•Social infrastructure and local support networks are
crucial – for success and community wellbeing
•Financial models make early investment challenging –
requires new, long-term partnership approaches
Slide 17 The Young Foundation 2010
18. Social Social &
infrastructure cultural life
Voice &
Space to grow
influence
19. Social Social and
infrastructure cultural life
+ connection to local/
regional economy
+ green building,
environmental
innovation, incentives
for pro-environmental
Voice and behaviour
Space to grow
influence
20. 1. Social infrastructure
•Need for services and
support, not just buildings
•Early provision is crucial
•Lack of social infrastructure
affects community wellbeing
•Identity and reputation
Slide 20 The Young Foundation 2010
21. What residents want from new
communities
1. Good quality housing
2. Good schools
3. Safe, clean, friendly neighbourhoods
4. Community outreach workers
5. Pre-school childcare
6. Integrated social housing
7. Neighbourhood staffing
8. Supervised open spaces
JRF (2006)
Slide 21 The Young Foundation 2010
22. “… where these facilities were already
in place when people began to arrive,
the community came together and
networks were formed more easily.”
CLG, New Towns Review, 2006
Slide 22 The Young Foundation 2010
23. “ … most mixing across social groups
takes places between children. It is
these contacts … that provide
opportunities to meet and form
relationships.”
CIH/JRF (2005)
Slide 23 The Young Foundation 2010
24. Cambourne, New Town Blues
“ … planning for hard infrastructure
alone would never build a community
… it would only be done by a matrix of
formal and informal opportunities or
supported activities.”
Cambridgeshire PCT (2007)
Slide 24 The Young Foundation 2010
25. 2. Social and cultural life
• Community identity &
belonging
• Tolerance, respect,
engagement
• Pro-social behaviour
• Good design supporting
social life
Slide 25 The Young Foundation 2010
26. Three factors necessary for sense of
community
1. Length of residence
2. Local character
3. A shared common history
Michael Young, New Earswick
Slide 26 The Young Foundation 2010
28. “ … you can’t ignore group
differences. You can’t pretend they
are not there as the old colour-blind
policies attempted to do. You have to
acknowledge difference.”
Miles Hewstone, 2007
Slide 28 The Young Foundation 2010
29. “ … the well connected are more likely
to be hired, housed, healthy and
happy”
Michael Woolcock
The Place of Social Capital
in Understanding, 2001
Slide 29 The Young Foundation 2010
31. 3. Voice & influence
• Giving voice and influence
at the planning stage
• Shaping opportunities for
influence
• Maintaining structures
and initiatives for the long
term
Slide 31 The Young Foundation 2010
32. HafenCity, Hamburg
•Large-scale new residential &
commercial quarter
•Uses principles of
environmental psychology to
ensure it becomes a place
where people will want to
work and play
• Appointed a sociologist to act
as go-between and advocate
for new residents
Slide 32 The Young Foundation 2010
33. 4. Space to grow
• New communities evolve slowly
as social networks develop &
populations age & shift
• Master-planning needs to be
flexible and adaptable
• New communities need flexible
use of land & buildings
• Informal spaces & temporary
uses should be encouraged
• Local engagement &
governance structures also need
time to develop
Slide 33 The Young Foundation 2010
34. Costs and
consequences
of failure
Slide 34 The Young Foundation 2010
36. Costs and consequences
• High costs when communities fail – financial and social
•Issues for wellbeing of communities (isolation, mental
health, cohesion, fear of crime)
• Problems with community cohesion
• Stability, tenure and management
• Cost of inflexible social infrastructure
• Poor quality/inadequate facilities
Slide 36 The Young Foundation 2010
37. •Social sustainability is an issue of public value –
particularly now in context of global recession, population
growth, rising housing demand
•Cost of prevention and failure far outweighs early
investment to create new places that will work in the short
term and for the long term
•Social supports are relatively low cost – Milton Keynes
evidence indicates £700 per new household for social
infrastructure
Slide 37 The Young Foundation 2010
38. Our challenges
• Integrate thinking about social sustainability to
professional practice across all agencies and stakeholders
involved in creating new communities
• Put people first - change the way places are designed
and built
•New financial models – change the focus on short term
returns and focus on long term stewardship
Slide 38 The Young Foundation 2010
39. For more information about Future Communities
contact:
saffron.woodcraft@youngfoundation.org
nicola.bacon@youngfoundation.org
www.neveragainfuturecommunities.wordpress.com
www.futurecommunities.net
Slide 39 The Young Foundation 2010
40. About the Young Foundation
The Young Foundation brings together insight, innovation and
entrepreneurship to meet social needs.
We have a 55-year track record of success with ventures such as the
Open University, Which?, the School for Social Entrepreneurs and
Healthline (the precursor of NHS Direct).
We work across the UK and internationally – carrying out research,
influencing policy, creating new organisations and supporting others
to do the same, often with imaginative uses of new technology.
www.youngfoundation.org
Slide 40 The Young Foundation 2010