Download - RUDI, Remaking Places Conference, David Barrie, London, Dec 03 2008

David BarrieUrban Regeneration,

Social Design, Media

• 61 growing groups, 250 growing sites, 1000 new ‘urban farmers’, 750 playground participants, 6000 visitors to town meal, 2500 guests

• Project repeat 2008 - and larger• Adapted spatial plan for use of public

spaces in town

Alison Drake

Chair, Castleford Heritage Group

Former Primary School Teacher

Wendy Rayner

Vice-chair, Castleford Riverside Group

Former cook in old people’s home

Rheta Davison

Secretary, Custyke Community Group

Former cleaner

Lol Coxhill in a skip Concept Simon Thackray. Produced by The Shed. Photo: Tony Bartholomew

Impacts (since March 2003)• 10 new public realm projects created and delivered• 3 new community groups and 1 business association

formed (now in fifth years)• £100k initial seed investment by Channel 4 and £70k

grant from CABE has become £14m capital & £3m revenue programme

• Partnership of eighteen public and private organisations

• Closure of two chemical factories and release of 150ha of brownfield land for residential development

• New retail, residential and cultural development plans in place for the town, valued at over £200m

• Two projects have now delivered second phase• Planning applications now coming forward for further

waterfront development• Involvement of local, national, international designers

and artists in a former coalfield town• Involvement of over 10,000 local people in an

organic, non funding-round-locked programme of social, economic and physical renewal

• “Unofficial mayors” project team• Media: (micro) blogging, pageflakes, wiki • Good Neighbors Project• Postmen, taxi drivers, small businesses• Workshops: Construction Skills, Housing and

Healthcare policy• Development of ‘meanwhile uses’• Development of public realm on site• Resource for design development• New public management on site

“We have idols but no models to follow. You have to define your own model.”

- Nicolas Ghesquiere, Balenciaga

• Middlesbrough Council• City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council• igloo Regeneration• BioRegional Quintain• Design Council/One North East• Channel 4 Television - BBC Television• British Council - Russia & China

David [email protected]

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