networked community building & place-making in cities
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Building networked
community involvementDavid Barrie
Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment
November 3, 2010
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We like this…
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…and want to square it
with this…
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One route heavily advocated
for just now is ‘social media’…
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What is social media?
“the peer-to-peer communication
and user-generated content madepossible through the advent of
participatory web tools…”Source: Kanter, B. & Fine, A.H., The Networked Nonprofit (2010)
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social media ‘tools’
• Conversation starters like blogs,
YouTube and Twitter
• Collaboration tools including wikis andGoogle Groups
• Network builders like social
networking websites such as Facebook,
MySpace and Twitter Source: Kanter, B. & Fine, A.H., The Networked Nonprofit (2010)
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But why use social media
when our lives are
increasingly trapped inin a closed circle…
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One answer is a proliferation
of online markets…
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Audiences & participants:
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• 82% of the population in the U.K. are on the internet
• 1 in every 4.5mins spent by people online is on socialnetworks
• A new member joins the business-orientated siteLinkedIn.com every second
• The largest living generation is young people bornbetween the years of 1978 and 1992
• 25% of people who play video and other screengames in the USA are over 50Sources: BBC, Neilsen, Kanter/Fine, Knight Foundation
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Here are some other practical
reasons to bother:
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• people are easy to find online and on
many channels
• talk is cheap
• serendipity is enhanced online
• reciprocity online is incredibly easy
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Some political reasons:
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we need to
• encourage citizen activism
• design local plans “bottom up”
• support “collaborative local platforms”• give communities more powers
• “cut demand for the state”
• enable low-cost “soft” regeneration
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But then there’s also
something else….
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• failing local markets (empty shops)• end of edge-of-centre, residential-led
urban renewal
• growth of outsourced public services
• rise of social enterprise & “socialproductivity”
• appetite for mashed-up timelines (Lost)& interactive narrative (Seven Days)
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‘open source’ place-making
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Some web links and sites
that are worth looking at for
community organizing
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useful networking ‘tools’ …
• Meetup - http://www.meetup.com
• Facebook - http://www.facebook.com
• Facebook Places -http://www.facebook.com/places/
• Twitter - http://www.twitter.com
• Twitter lists - @davidbarrie/speirslocks
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…building community…
• Peckham Power -http://peckhampower.org/
• Groupsnearyou -
http://www.groupsnearyou.com/
• Hubbub social game -
http://whatsthehubbub.nl/projects/koppe
lkiek/
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…building ideas…
• Craftster - http://www.craftster.org/
• Your Freedom - http://bit.ly/aT1FTy
• Bing Maps - http://bit.ly/9gL41Y• Bexhill Local Action Plan -
http://www.bexhilllocalactionplan.co.uk/
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…sharing the burden…
• Wikispaces - http://www.wikipedia.com
• Google Docs - https://docs.google.com/
• Neighborgoods -http://neighborgoods.net/
• Kickstarter - http://www.kickstarter.com/
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…sharing knowledge…
• Geographically-linked news -
http://foursquare.com/ -
http://www.everyblock.com/
• Geographically-linked games -
http://bit.ly/akEDPl
• Oral history -
http://tellingyourstory.wordpress.com/
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And some uses to date that
link to the renewal of cities,
places and communities:
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• Fix my street - http://www.fixmystreet.com/
• You Choose: Redbridge Conversation 2010:
http://www.redbridge.gov.uk/cms/redbridge_conversation_2010.
aspx
• Boston Redevelopment Authority - http://hub2.org/
• Friends of Redcar Cemetary - http://www.forcem.co.uk/
• Heeley Millennium Park - http://millenniumpark.wordpress.com/• Wake Green Park - http://wakegreenpark.blogspot.com/
• Talk about Local - http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/how-set-
wordpress/
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Different types of
local websites:• Civil society networks
• Local discussion sites
• Placeblogs• Local blogazines
• Public social spaces
• Local action groupsSource: Nick Booth, Exploring Hyperlocal, BBC Wesbite, http://bbc.in/aUurhp (2010)
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As in urban renewal, social
media is populated by certain
kinds of individual:
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• instigator • evangelist
• donor
• spreader • happy bystander
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Reasons why people
gather and share experiences
online - according tointeraction designers:
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• Altruism
• Creativity
• Validation
• Affinity
• Prurience
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And the most active or
interested users,
people who are…
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• interested in making new friends
• keeping up friendships
• open to succumbing to social pressure
from existing friends• believe in “paying it forward”
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Does all of this have
implications for place-making?
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Yes
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• A relationship economy• Temporary ties
• Multiple independent groups of friends
• Loyalty to experience and data, not platform
• Physical places as passing scenery• Physical places that allow you to fulfill a task
• ‘Swarming & switching’
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Three channels of work
• Strategic entrepreneurship
• Social entrepreneurship
• Community entrepreneurship
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8 actions
1 - Form a Speirs Locks Cultural Improvement District
2 - Review administrative contexts of site
3 - Turn disused adhesives factory in to low-cost shared workspace
4 - Create ‘making’ and ‘doing’ light-manufacturing workshops
5 - Support urban agriculture in leftover spaces
6 - Open up existing premises through programmes of community
education and involvement
7 - Create and run a public use/entertainment programme
8 - Create community spaces adjacent to built structures on site
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Developer as theatrical
manager
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Aggregated uses
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• Physical space as ‘sovereign real estate’
• Events as ‘transient interrupts’
• Maximise opportunities for users to maketheir own spaces and relationships
• Theme of ‘doing’ and ‘making’ = popular idiomatic understanding of site
• Open-ended occupation
• Site as catalyst to making markets, rather
than centre of a battle plan
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‘urban apps’
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Seeing everything as a utility
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Seeing property as
an ‘engine of participation’
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David BarrieDavid Barrie & Associates
project design & delivery - creative/economic planning -
public involvement - social ventures
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