This document is meant to spark conversations and stimulate thinking around the mission-oriented framework, including the fundamentals about "mission": evolution, concept and some lessons. This deck also serves the purpose of systematising questions from Camden Council, step-by-step implementation recommendations and case studies.
8. What changes are we seeing…
Ability to use technology and increase in people moving
around to work & live could affect how they can look after
themselves & each other, creating higher levels of transience
Neighbourhoods could become polarised between affluent
adults and poorer families in social housing, creating the need
for mixed housing for inclusive communities
Change in family, friendship and work structures could affect
where & how people spend live and work, affecting how we
build housing & commercial space
Increase in self-employment and people with multiple care
responsibilities could blur boundaries between work & leisure,
affecting people’s ability to commute
9. …in how people live and work?
People could be drawn into pooling their resources with
people like them, to save money and belong to a community,
creating the need for flexible make/storage/workspace
Reduction of car ownership could free up space currently used
for cars & parking could be freed up for other uses, such as
public space or development
Digital transformation could automate jobs in the city centre in
finances & management, while changes in tourism could
further increase short-term residential lettings
Consumer & leisure activities could increasingly be provided
“on demand” either online, in public spaces or people’s homes,
potentially reducing need for high street spaces
13. How do we enable people to imagine
& experience what they want to see
in the neighbourhoods?
14. How do we experiment ways that
bring to life the neighbourhoods
we want to live in?
15. How do we embed &
scale infrastructure at
the pace of our
neighbourhoods?
16. How can we reinvent the everyday roles we
play in our neighbourhoods?
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How we can move from the pace of the emergency to the pace of our neighbourhoods
At the centre of a global city connecting mainland Europe with the rest of the UK and home to global innovators, including a mix of cultural & economic institutions and companies, and also home to neighbourhoods with their own distinctive identities from Kings Cross to Camden Town via Covent Garden.
Working with our staff, residents, communities & partners to build a fair and just renewal of Camden, while continuing to protect people’s lives & livelihoods
We want to build on what we’ve developed before as well as what we’ve learnt from our response to the crisis. We will bring Camden on this journey, every step of the way, listening to the experiences of our residents, staff & partners to understand how we can rebuild.
As you listen to this presentation, think about how relationship has changed to the neighbourhood you live in?
What have we learnt?
Newer groups of people & organisations are becoming vulnerable as a result of Covid 19, with existing inequalities being deepened
Services & infrastructure are being designed & delivered rapidly to respond to the urgency of the needs Covid 19 has created
Residents, communities & businesses are giving their time, energy & money to support people most in need
Staff are working flexibly & collaboratively – often in new roles - to tackle new needs created by Covid 19
We will need to continue to work with uncertainty about the impacts of the virus and so we won't be "recovering" back to normal, but needing to anticipate longer term needs, while being responsive to an evolving situation
Where we can re-connect people to their neighbourhoods, building on the increase of people who’ll now be working from home, the development of new solidarities from food to deliveries, and the need to rebuild our local economies.
In a previous post, I talked about how we’re moving from the surreal to the slowburn. What are the behaviours we’ve changed we want to sustain and what are the trends we want to accelerate or reverse? We know from past crises, that organisations and sectors can convert and quickly, whether it’s the massive increase of women in the workforce sustaining beyond WW2 or whether it’s the income tax being paid to fund a war still with us today. As an example, many of us will have had a much closer and active relationship with our neighbourhood during lockdown as we’ve been limited to only being able to the neighbourhood as places to go.
1. How can we change the system one step at a time?
Blend the experimental and the systemic
Don’t need to do everything at the same time
Develop communities of practice around the ideas
Continue researching even while you’re prototyping
Don’t just meet people’s needs, challenge what they need
Test different social norms
We’ll need to develop a whole place approach to resilience, where we can put ourselves in other people’s shoes, create experiences that embody people’s values, seed change throughout the local area and assemble all the actors involved to embed that change.
However, you can’t develop future policies or practices if you don’t create the space for imagination. But you can’t just imagine those futures, you need to start enacting them so people can see what they might look like and then adjust & challenge them. And there are futures where you need systemic change that you can’t create just by practising it, you need to mobilise people to demand better futures.
As a society, we still think of our infrastructure needs as if we were in the 20th century — private car ownership, a daily commute to work or school, and weekly trips to the shops, even if we want more liveable neighbourhoods where we can walk or cycle to work, school, the shops or the park.
We need to plan infrastructure for social & economic trends that could emerge or accelerate between now and 2050 with Covid 19:
With these trends as well as the economic shifts that will take place, will councils retreat to emergency provision or technocratic solutions or will they help their neighbourhoods be the platforms for social & economic renewal
What we’ve learnt during the pandemic is that everyone has taken responsibility for looking out for each other, but who is responsible for solidarity. As a council, we had a very different relationship between the person who picks up litter and puts it in the right bin, the street champion we help to mobilise people and the organisations whom process our waste at the depot, and the local circular economy.
So we also need to acknowledge and value the different relationships and ways people might want to co-produce with us. We shouldn’t expect local residents to process different types of waste that arrives in the bins we collect, but we should be co-designing with residents the outcomes that we want to commission the waste providers by. In parallel, we could be co-producing with groups from composting groups to the @remakery how we can better support them to get more people re-using stuff that otherwise could go to the landfill. We may not expect everyone interested in helping look after their street to want to turn into a business, but we should provide or support the infrastructure to help people navigate the different pathways to get involved.
We should understand what motivates people to play their part in achieving the outcomes that matter to us as a local area
We’ve been working with people before the pandemic to use all their senses to reshape assets in the neighbourhoods, be it our libraries, our neighbourhood spaces and now post-pandemic we’re crowdsourcing ideas on how people want to walk and cycle in their neighbourhoods and what can help them
As I mentioned before, you need to help people imagine the future, you need to start enacting them so people can see what they might look like and then adjust & challenge them. We’ve been mobilising businesses, investors, universities and communities to use physical space to tackle issues, from our Think & Do climate action space, our Make space and our Neighbourhoods space, co-designed by our communities. We’ve repurposed these to become spaces for food delivery and digital platforms, and are starting a whole high street experiment to use our different levers.
https://medium.com/@noelito/whos-responsible-for-solidarity-91010bde034a
Don’t come up with solutions to problems we don’t yet understand
Come up for air from the emergency response to learn from others
Create space for people to share to surface what can mobilise people for collective action
Open up people’s imaginations to test together ways to respond to the future