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