pride in place - moving targets conference
DESCRIPTION
A presentation about a project I led in Dundee to engage citizens in Dundee's Bid to become UK City of Culture in 2017, through a digital platform, We Dundee. www.wedundee.comTRANSCRIPT
Pride in Place:The role of digital placemaking
Gillian Easson @gillianeassonwww.creativedundee.com
Creative Dundee - amplifying and connecting talentwww.creativedundee.com
TRUST, SHARED VISION AND STRONG PARTNERSHIP1
Dundee bids to become UK City of Culture 2017
HIGH QUALITY DESIGN AND DIGITAL WORK2
#wedundee
What surprises you about the city?
www.karenlyttle.co.uk
EVERYONE HAS A VIEW AND IT IS HEARD3
57,943 views, 95 countries, 974 cities, 3,500 posts, 4 mins = average visit.
KEPT THE MOMENTUM GOING...4
TEAM EFFORT - MEDIA, STUDENTS, BUSINESSES, CREATIVES...5
AGGREGATING, CURATING AND SHARING THE STORY6
MAKING HIDDEN DATA OPEN7
ENABLING CO-CURATION OF IDEAS8
Dundee Dreaming by W.N.Herbert
Let culture inscribe on its bannerswe hold these desires to be Deep Sea Dundonian:
that a giant organ be built into the banks of the Tay to play shanties when the waves crash into it
that life-size whale sculptures should appear on the sandbanks as the tide goes out
that folk in huge inflatable footballs should race across the river
that the Fifie be brought back like the mammoth from extinction that the City Arcade be reopened beneath the Caird Hall
that a racing circuit for formula one grand prix should run through the city centre streets and up the Kingsway
that sculptures of Oor Wullie's bucket be placed all over the toon for fowk to sit doon
that Clarky's Bakery should open 25 hours a day
that the Royal Arch be rebuiltthe Overgate restored
that a cable car should go from the city centre up the Law that the Law Hill be given over to unicorns for grazing in perpetuity
that the Law should be reinstated as a volcano that the railway tunnel through the Law Hill should contain
one million lightbulbs for James Bowman Lindsay
that the spire on the top of the old Chamber of Commerce be completed that the cobbles in Strawberry Bank be replaced by actual strawberries
that the holy stumps of the fallen rail bridge be illuminated that something should be done about the wheelie bins on Peddie Street that all the city's lights be turned off so the people may lie on their backs
strumming luminous ukuleles and watching the heavens that the rings of Saturn rise and halo the Mills Observatory
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30th September 2013
9 DIGITAL DATA TAKES ON CULTURAL LIFE OF ITS OWN
PRIDE IN PLACE 10
Partnership:We Dundee - www.wedundee.comFleet Collective - www.fleetcollective.comDundee Partnership - www.dundeepartnership.co.ukCreative Dundee - www.creativedundee.com
Gillian Easson [email protected]@gillianeasson