Pride in Place:The role of digital placemaking

Gillian Easson @gillianeassonwww.creativedundee.com

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Dundee bids to become UK City of Culture 2017

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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

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