Industrial City Foresight

1. INDUSTRIAL CITY FORESIGHT
KONIN2050

2. WHOWE ARE
Social enterprise interested in
developingthe
future(s)
ofpost-industrialcities.
A team with international
experience
intesting and implementing
innovativesolutions.
Skilfulbuildersof
multidisciplinary
and
cross-sector
coalitions.

3. Changethe waypeople thinkabout their (city’s) future.
EASY.
Weare designinga foresight campaign thatis tailor-made for industrialcities.
Itwill bring together actors from all existingsectors (public,
private, non-gov, academia) and thosenon-existing,too.
Itwill use thetools thatyou mightthinkare more likely to be used by your
kidsrather thanserious social workers (games, stories, art interventions).
Itwill be open for internationallearning(CC-BY <3).
Itwill be done withyou (you must haveseen this coming!)
WHAT WE ARE PLANNINGTO DO?

4. WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE
Coalmine on board!
Localpartnerships: Local Chamber of Commerce, NGOs, a few crazy people,
municipality
Internationalpartnerships: UNDP in Georgia
Wisdom support: Collegium Civitas and Dr. Marta Karwacka.
Funds for the first phase of the project.
Media buy-in: CR Navigator (leading CSR magazine and online portal - soon also
inEN), ALL localmedia, professional pr support
Timelinein place.

5. RIGHT, THE TIMELINE…
PHASE1-CREATINGSCENARIOS
WITHTHETEAMOF LOCAL AND
EXTERNALEXPERTSWE’LLBE
WORKING ON ASETOF FOUR
SCENARIOSDESCRIBING POSSIBLE
FUTURESOF OUR CITYIN THE
CONTEXTOF THEMINE CLOSURE.
THELOCALEXPERTSWON’TBE
YOURUSUALSUSPECTS- WE’RE
CASTINGTHENETWIDE TO FIND
PASSIONATES(LIKEYOU),WHO
MIGHTNOTBE HEADSOF
APPROPRIATEDEPARTMENTSIN
THEMUNICIPALITY,BUT WHO
STILLKNOW THEIRSTUFF.
PHASE2- CONSULT,CONSULT,
CONSULT
WE’LLMOSTLIKELY BE USING
MICRONARRATIVES,GAMES,ART
INTERVENTIONS,TRADITIONAL
PUBLICMEETINGSAND ONLINE
FORMSOF ENGAGEMENTTO
DISCUSSWITH THELOCAL
COMMUNITYTHESCENARIOS
THATWEHAVE,LETTHEMPLAY
WITHTHEMAND SHOW US
WHERETHEYWANTTHECITY TO
GO.
PHASE3- ACTNOW!
WEAREDEADTERRIFIEDOF
ENDINGUPWITHADOCUMENT
THATNOONEWILLREAD.THATIS
WHY,WEHAVEPLANNEDPHASE3
WHICHASSUMESTAKING
ACTION.WE’LLORGANISE A
GRANTCOMPETITIONFOR
PEOPLE,WHOWANT TOMAKE
THEFUTUREHAPPENNOW.THEY
CANDO WITHTHEMONEY
PRETTYMUCHWHATEVERTHEY
WANT(AS LONGASIT’SLEGAL).

6. OH, AND BY THE WAY…
We are buildinga consortium of organisations andinstitutions interested in:
Horizon2020 ERA-NET on Smart Urban Futures.
Are youinterested, too?

7. GET IN TOUCH WITH US
Twitter: @urbanwrkshp
Justyna Król
j.krol@pracowniamiejska.pl
0048691130 686
skype:justyna-krol
Monika Koszewska
m.koszewska@pracowniamiejska.pl
0048605496 375