“my future’s in falkirk” · “my future’s in falkirk” basic facts area 259 square km...
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““My FutureMy Future’’s in Falkirks in Falkirk””
Basic factsArea 259 square km Population (2006) 149,680 Electorate (2007) 115,881 Housing stock (2007) 69,543 Households (2006) 66,651 Jobs (2006) 58,400
Anthony HodgsonInternational Futures Forum
FALKIRK
FalkirkGrangemouth
Firth of Forth
River Carron
2001 – Economic Crisis
Falkirk Action Plan
2002 IFF Imaginative Catalysis 1
The Falkirk Wheel –an engineering first!
2007IFF Imaginative Catalysis 2
The Helix Eco-Park Project
The Kelpies –an art first!
100 feet
2008IFF Imaginative Catalysis 3
Board and Project Team Council
Chief Officers
Positive Transitions
Group
Council Development
Group
Culture Group
Business Panel Group Community
Voluntary Sector
Neighbouring Communities
Helix Heroes (youngsters)
Waterways and Sports
Health Group
Business Interest Group
IFF ASSIMILATION
REFLECTION AND IDEAS FOR ACTION
The Multi-stakeholder
Learning Journeys
FromHierarchies
AndNetworks
ToHolarchies
The Sharing Space
The DirectorsEngage
Grangemouth strike to close pipeline at cost of £50m a day
Queues form in Scotland as panic buying spreads
Minister says stocks of fuel will be sufficient
The Guardian, Friday April 25 2008
Grangemouth refinery, which is owned and run by Ineos.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
What are we learning here?
Seeing and shaping tomorrow requires the capacity to propose, plan and resource whilst at the same time letting loose the power of communities to vivify and shape their own lives.
Can you live simultaneously in two seemingly incompatible paradigms and retain a joyful sanity?