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TNO Forum latest update published
There’s been some great stuff happening over the last couple of months, all reported in the January Forum update.
The image here is a montage of stills created from the filming of the 1st December workshop at Birmingham Leadership Foundation.
This was a thrilling beginning to create “narrativium” to populate the scenarios. We’re now writing an Arts Council bid to continue this work.
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Narrativium for the Birmingham 2050 scenarios
With the wealth of info from all the Forum’s 2012 activities, we’ve created this “54-matrix” to generate ‘narrativium, multi-media stories of possible food futures for Birmingham 2050.
This 54-matrix shows glimpses of possible futures — and here’s how to ‘read’ it:
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#TNOfood: Creating stories from the future: food futures for Birmingham 2050
There will be 20+ young citizens, the next generation of decision-makers tomorrow at the Birmingham Leadesrhip Foundation. They’re generating multimedia stories from the future — if you want to join in, there’s still time for a few more to register here.
It will be huge fun. Important too. And this is the plan for the day:
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What it takes to feed Birmingham
Here is my presentation on what it takes to feed Birmingham, a city of 1M people:
Workshop: What possible futures are there for Birmingham?
If you want to help shape Birmingham’s future, come along to this facilitated workshop on 1st December, co-hosted with the Birmingham Leadership Foundation.
You’ll be joining lively young Brummies, including a theatre guy, a musician and composer, a film-maker, a novelist and on-line author . . . to list just a few.
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Update on the scenarios project: Food futures for Birmingham 2050
The latest newsletter about the Forum is here. This photo, of infant Brummie Xavier Kwese Jabbar’s hand encircled by that of his mother, features on the opener page.
On this page, too, is Forum news, on t’other is a list of the impressive 50+ people who’ve contributed so far.
Here’s a flavour of what’s there:
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Semantic web, distributed energy, Growing Birmingham . . .
There’s a diagrammatic summary of Forum activities here (includes the list of all the brilliant profs and others involved), plus the April newsletter is now out.
We’ve completed the first, divergent phase of the scenarios we’ve generating about food futures for Birmingham 2050; i.e. what we’ll be eating in here in forty-odd years’ time.
As part of the next convergent phase, we’re running three more Forum events in the next couple of months:
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New Optimists Forum: What’s happened so far
We’ve run three events: on 2nd November, on 9th February (specifically on food poverty) and on 1st March.
The outputs (recordings, transcripts from the conversations, blogposts, interviews, tweets) from these events are analysed under the guidance of Warwick Business School, and will be posted soon.
Meanwhile, here’s a one-pager summary of the impact of the New Optimists Forum: NewOptimistsForum-27thFeb2012.
Top of our impact list is that food and food issues are rising smartly up the agenda in the city. Indeed, there are more than a few intimations that food security will be part of Birmingham’s long-term strategic planning.
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New Birmingham . . .
Several hundred people piled into Birmingham’s Council House last night for the launch of the Birmingham Leadership Foundation, myself included. People who know me will realise I’m a tad allergic to the word ‘leadership’; intelligent “followership” is, I think, a more useful, more demanding attribute.
Nonetheless, what was impressive was the type of engagement and discussion. For starters, we represented the demographics of the city far more than at most such gatherings. Plus, the hoary stuff about our auto manufacturing skills didn’t get a mention.
We exchanged information about the tiny signs of a new economy.
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