#designskillsscotland2012

Reflections on Day 1

Diarmaid Lawlor, A+DS

Outline

Reflection on presentations

Reflection on site visit

Reflection on university tour

Why university

town?

Scenarios Format for the day

Reflections on Day 1 presentations….

Christina

Conor

Ton

• Connections: spatial and narratives [history/river]

• Credibility

• Conversation platform: reducing barriers

• Communities propose and evaluate

• Patterns, islands, connections: be human

• Scales: fixed frameworks/originality

• Place as learning playground, participative, propositional

• Collaboration, re-think assets, intensify relationships

• Professional duty: impact oriented, social focus

• Civic institutional framework: connect people Joost

Rogier

Reflections on Day 1 presentations….

Reflections on Day 1 presentations….

Reflections on Day 1 presentations….

Reflections on Day 1 presentations….

Reflections on site visit….

Services and

assets

Communities

Creators/makers

Re-thinking

existing spaces

Participation

Reflections on site visit….

town hall

Gaeity

Services and

assets

Communities

Creators/makers

Re-thinking

existing spaces

Participation

Reflections on university visit….

scale

talent

facilities

• Regional focus: regional university]

• Mixed role of place

• Attracting students & retaining staff: people connections

• Markets/production: Big cities…..

• Quality and utilisation

• Connections with communities beyond the learner

• “A problem for us all”

• Institutional and knowledge connections: library

• Scale and diversity

• Differentiation programme

The town

connections participation production

RESOURCES: [finance, people, knowledge etc]

ASSETS: [buildings, sites etc]

SPACES

Reflections on university town….

TOWN CENTRE

LEARNING

TWO DESTINATIONS

LINKED DESTINATIONS

OVERLAPPING SPACES AND PLACES

Symposium format: DAY 2

Workshop 2

Sharing learning

Workshop 3

Plenary

Actions for change • Start with output of workshop 1 • Spatial focus: where and why? • Social focus; who and what?

After the symposium • Support to apply learning: what, who, how?

Priorities • Focus down narrative • Prepare presentation

Present and discuss • Brief discussion by Scottish Futures Trust • Each group presents, group feedback • Facilitated discussion: actions and priorities • Learning action plan