DSS2011 Outline programme

Delivering Better Places Design Skills Symposium Scotland 2011

learning by doing in real places Hosted by Architecture + Design Scotland, Stirling Council & Historic Scotland with support from Scottish Government Architecture & Place Division, Improvement Services, The Academy of Urbanism and the Key Agencies Group

Detailed programming of the symposium by day

Purpose •

Day 1: Describing the challenges to delivering better places

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Day 2: Collaboration and learning from place

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Day 3: Creativity and innovation

Design Skills Symposium Scotland 2011

Design Skills Symposium Scotland 2011

The Tolbooth, Stirling. 27-29 September

The Tolbooth, Stirling. 27-29 September

Day 1 programme

Day 2 programme

The purpose of Day 1 is to describe the challenges to delivering better places. It takes the form of a mini conference. The event will bring together different agendas, roles and organisations involved in shaping the ‘spatial’ and ‘people’ aspects of creating and delivering places.

The purpose of Day 2 is Collaboration and learning from place. It is about taking the key issues identified and agreed by the group in Day 1 and work through the spatial implications by working in interdisciplinary teams to develop initial concept proposals. The proposals will be tested by a mixed group of experts.

There are 3 key questions underpinning the day. These questions will be considered through a mix of presentations and group working. These questions, and the priorities identified by the delegates, will inform the briefing for the next two days of the Symposium. The key questions for this session are:• How do places support better lives, and how can the various stakeholders, agencies and agendas that interact to shape places achieve better outcomes for people?

• What are the spatial implications of a place based approach to supporting better lives: who does what, what goes where and why?

• How do we make better use of the assets [built environment, spaces, infrastructure] and resources [knowledge, investment, citizens etc] we already have to create places that support better lives?

Time

Scope

Duration

By

13:30

Opening speech by Jim MacDonald:

10 mins

A+DS

35 mins

Stirling Council/ Historic Scotland

Overview of the programme and learning outcomes

13:40

Overview of Stirling context • Stirling Council contexts: Community Planning and spatial planning • Historic Scotland contexts: New Design in Historic Settings

Three site contexts within Stirling will be used as the basis of the workshop sessions. These contexts are [i] the historic town [ii] the A872 through the city, [the Spine] and [ii] the brownfield contexts of lands adjacent to the rail station. These sites will be introduced on Day 1 through the presentations by Stirling Council and Historic Scotland.

There are 3 key questions underpinning the day. The focus of these questions is to explore what outcomes we seek to achieve on the basis of the briefing from Day 1, and how these outcomes can be delivered spatially. The questions are: • What are the activities we are trying to put in place, behaviours we seek to support and impacts we seek to achieve through the development of a concept or proposition for place?

• How can we learn from place to identify the drivers for collaborative working, cross sector and cross agency, to deliver better places, and what does this look like?

• How can design thinking, the ‘art of the possible’ unlock better ways of achieving these outcomes?

Time

Scope

Duration

By

09:00

Opening remarks followed by Ministerial speech

15 mins

Fiona Hyslop MSP

09:15

Streets, networks and public space: place and link

40 mins

Ben Hamilton-Baillie

09:55

Delivering low carbon futures: place and behaviours

40 mins

Stephen Hill

10:35

Plenary

15 mins

Kevin Murray

10:50

Site analysis: [i] historic core [ii] the spine [iii] MOD lands

1hr 30

Tour leads

14:15

Local economic development: the role of place and diversity 20 mins

Sarah Longlands

12:20

Lunch [working lunch]

30 mins

14:35

Delivering Better Places: place and development economics

20 mins

Steven Tolson

12:50

Proposition workshops

3hrs

14:55

Plenary

15 mins

Kevin Murray

15:50

Preparation for Dragon’s Den

10 mins

15:10

Coffee

15 mins

16:00

Dragon’s Den forum

1hr 30

External experts

15:25

Supporting communities: service delivery, health and places 20 mins

Tom Steele

17:30

Civic reception/Presentation of ‘New Design in Historic Settings’

40 mins

A+DS/Stirling Council/ Historic Scotland

15:45

Supporting communities: green networks, ecology and place

20 mins

Max Hislop

19:15

Evening buffet/networking event

1hr 30

16:05

Group sessions: defining key issues and challenges. The focus of this session is on the user, the people who will live in, work in and use a place. How can we improve outcomes by starting with a better understanding of lives?

55 mins

Facilitators

17:00

Plenary: synthesis of key issues. Agreeing the brief

30 mins

Kevin Murray

17:30

CLOSE

Immediatly following there will be an optional guided tour of Stirlng Castle. The Welcome Meal will take place at 19:30.

Workshop Leads

The inspirational Klas Tham speaking at the Design Skills Symposium 2010

Design Skills Symposium Scotland 2011 The Tolbooth, Stirling. 27-29 September

Day 3 programme The purpose of Day 3 is Creativity and innovation. It takes the form of an international masterclass, design development workshop with peer review and lessons learned plenary. The key themes for Day 3 are learning from elsewhere and learning from each other.

There are 3 key questions underpinning the day, which will inform the plenary sessions:

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How do we manage the impacts of change, conflicting feedback and shifting influences on the development of propositions to deliver better places?

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How do we explain and influence others to engage in propositions for shaping better places by working through the stages of place transformation set out in ‘Delivering Better Places’ ie outcomes, initiation, key design moves, implementation and stewardship?

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How do we measure success at all stages of the process, and how do we ensure continuity of the placemaking intent over time?

Time

Scope

Duration

By

09:00

Welcome, and learning outcomes from Day 2

15 mins

Diarmaid Lawlor

09:15

International Masterclass: learning from elsewhere

1hr 30

David Sim of Gehl Architects

10:45

Coffee

15 mins

11:00

Design development workshop

3hr 30

Workshop leads

Workshop leads

[working lunch] 14:30

Design Review

1hr 15

15:45

Coffee

15 mins

16:00

Lesson learned plenary session

1hr

17:00

CLOSE

Karen Anderson

Design Skills Symposium Scotland 2011 The Tolbooth, Stirling. 27-29 September

Summary of Key Questions Taken as a whole, the questions form part of a process of thinking about place which works through the following: • Start with an understanding of people’s lives, and what this means in terms of priorities for action on the ground • Use this understanding to define place outcomes, in terms of activities, behaviours and impacts • Work on thinking about achieving the outcomes through collaboration, using design as a vehicle to unlock ‘the art of the possible’ • Test concepts, and delivery principles against peers and expert advisors • Explain solutions to deliver outcomes by delivering better places in terms of the rationale, the initiating projects, the key design moves, implementation in terms of assets, resources and services, and stewardship over time

Key Outcomes Day 1 • Knowledge exchange on local economics, the economics of development, the public estate and service delivery, and green network infrastructure • Awareness building on the policy contexts informing placeshaping in Stirling, and in historic settings more generally • Workshop brief development on the challenges to deliver better places Day 2 • Knowledge exchange on best practice and curent thinking in streets and public life, designing for low carbon futures • Familiarisation with field assesment techniques; learning from place • Place propositions developed through interdisciplinary group working

Event hosted by :

• Learning from expert critique and learning to navigate chnage in the placemaking process Day 3 • Knowledge exchange on international examples on placemaking and delivery

With support from :

• Familiarisation with design development and graphic presentation techniques • Development of verbal presentation skills • Learning from peer review and critique • Outline action plan for application of skills learned in the field

Additional support from:

SNH, SEPA, Scottish Water, Transport Scotland, Royal Town Planning Instiute, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, Urban Design Group, Chartered Institute of Highways & Transport