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Citizenship Workshop - Creator Space Tour NYC
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Challenge Statement: Citizenship How can the built environment support citizens to improve quality of life as people start to live closer and more concentrated?
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Citizenship: In scope/ out of scope
In scope: Plausible education
and participation initiatives, community-building initiatives that could start right away; long-term participation ideas; existing ideas
adapted for Red Hook
Out: Transportation /
large-scale social or political
change / community
justice center / storm-proofing
Out: Unrealizable
ideas like free energy
for everybody
Citizenship: Expected Outcomes
Identify the gaps: Challenging & relevant
Co- create ideas/ solutions: Holistic and realizable
Design action plan: Make a plan for increasing citizen participation. Specify time frame, location, roles and responsibilities, personal commitment
Presentation to ‘Urban Experts’
Existing solutions for improving citizen participation include:
• Incentive private waste collection programs through payment in transit vouchers (ex. Curitiba, Brazil)
• Job training programs
• Systems to involve citizens in budgeting and determining funding priorities, based on an understanding about limited resources and administrative restraints
Which innovations are missing?
Key question:
Imagine: A non-profit is providing seed money for the best proposal to increase citizen engagement and participation in Red Hook. It is looking for projects that meet an important community need, have strong appeal to residents and are self-sustaining for the long-term.
In your proposal, describe your project in detail, articulate the ways it improves quality of life, and define the next steps to get the project rolling right away.
Explain how citizens will contribute and how that participation will further increase engagement.