FUTURE CITY JOBS PROJECTKICK OFF MEETING

OCTOBER 11-13, 2011LONDON

LENKA ZEMANOVÁ

Future City Game

Keys to the future resilience of the cities

relationships among people are making the character of the place to map continuously DNA city code which enables relevant actions in the

city life wiki thinking to connect unconnectable producing the innovation environment skills

and knowledge = divers contents build the city identity overcoming the WE x THEM

concept ability to work with complexed problems individual responsibility courage openess

dialog people do not get what they want because they do not know what they want

Future City Game

More about FCG:2 days contest workshop for the city citizensbest ideas on how to improve the life quality

Who is playing? city citizens, public life representatives, ngos, professionals, business people

game theme, game time, participantspointing out the environmental, social,

cultural and economic problemsbest number of players is 20-25unique methodology with the elements of

visioning process and strategy planning process

gamemaster guides through the game

Czech Republic Future City Game

Cities in the Czech Republic where FCG was played ČR Praha, Ostrava, Hradec Králové, Zlín, Plzeň, České Budějovice, Roudnice nad Labem

ProCulture played 5 games in 4 different citiesBiggest city Prague (1, 2 inhabitants)Smallest town Roudnice nad Labem (12.000

inhabitants)Who played: young people up to 40; Roma ethic

youngsters up to 25

Step 1 :Global challenges Step 2 :

Local challenges

Step 3 :Perspectives

of the city

Step 4 :Ideas

Step 5 :Prioritising ideas

Step 6 :Presenting future

ideas

Step 7 :Preparing for

testing

Step 8 :Real world testing

Step 9 :Preparing and

presenting final ideas

Step 10 :Voting

FCG cycle or what the player goes through

How are problems chosen?

Economy

Social

Culture

Environment

How are ideas chosen?

7 criterias to choose the ideas Criteria for choosing the ideas Creative and entertaining New and unsual Solves the concrete problems of the city Touches the problems of other european cities Important for the citizens of the city Sustainable and positive impact in the future There are resources to make the idea happen

4 additional criteria according to the theme of the game

FCG what is in the end?

Ostrava 2 games played

Themes of the games:Creative city Ostrava 2015 - my storyOstrava 2015 city of cultural diversityplayed by 32 citizens of Ostrava out of 316 000

citizensgenerated 68 ideas a 7 more deeply elaborated1st game particiants from the creative industries,

art managers, ict workers, media, students2 nd game particpants from social thematic

working with minorits, minorities members, profesionals on minority issues, odborníci na multikulturalitu, students

5 main areas of preparation works

1. CONTENT: Theme of the game, time frame, place, local partners strategic documents; content documents with which FCG works

2. GETTING THE PLAYERS: presentation in local media, libraries, ngos so citizens can enroll in the game.

3. SELECTING PLAYERS/PUTTING THE TEAMS TOGETHER: Choosing the players, putting together the best team setting according to the age, specialization, experience of the players

4. FUTURE CITY GAME 2 DAY WORKSHOP5. WORKING WITH THE RESULTS OF THE GAME:

Disseminating the results/ideas of the game with potential following activities as pilots, presentation the ideas in the cultural events

FCG points to the organization

every game is original as every city city wants to play the FCG you have half of the

work done one person from the city devotes its time to the

organization/logistics of the Future City Game who will be the gamemasterthe partners (help with the target group)theme of the game (intensive cooperation with

key players as city reps, ngos, oppinion leaders...)

timing (weekend or other days)

FCG points to the organization

particpants – who do I ask to take participate and why (KEY to the results of the FCG)

game as the education process (people playing as a team building education)

logistics (takes 2-3 months to organize well the whole process from the first contact; rather long do list; lost of details)

less technology makes people more creativesomeone from the city/the mayor, head of the

culture to be there for the final presentations!!!followers of the final idea/idea ownerssupport to the ideas once game is finished (seed

grants, pilots)

Thank you for your attention

Lenka Zemanová

lenka.zemanova@proculture.cz

http://www.proculture.cz