A platform to organise community collaboration and co-production
with each other and with universities, practitioners and possibly local authorities.
Local expertises and needs - COMMUNITIES - ACTION GROUPS - MINORITIES
Knowledge Know-how Financing
Bank of knowledge and know-how for community-led initiatives
Metropolitan support
Metropolitan Civic School
- UNIVERSITIES - PRACTITIONERS - VOLUNTARY SECTOR - INSTITUTIONS - LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Digital tools
Fundings
Labs and Master classes a justMap and Civic Wise model
CASE-STUDY : Granville community centre and South Kilburn community. The different challenges they need to address and the types of support they would need.
CASE-STUDY : Granville community centre and South Kilburn community. The different challenges they need to address and the types of support they would need.
The civic school or civic action platform should help in connecting grassroot community groups with :
- practitioners: planners / architects / engineers / lawyers / urban designers / ecologists / policy makers... who could give advice and support - academy: universities / students / researchers to deliver knowledge and support work on specific tasks - networks of influence such as journalists, administration insiders, political movements, unions, charities and civil society networks in general - artists, graphic designers, movie makers, showmen, story tellers, musicians ... for engaging community actions - other grassroot community groups and networks with similar issues
These connections would help in supporting a series of actions called for by grassroots community groups such as: resisting austerity cuts and redevelopment pressures - finding fundings - reclaiming community spaces and providing event food, event furnitures, digital equipment ... - organising flash media campaigns to engage and alert on imminent cuts or redevelopment threats engaging local community - collaborating with artists, graphic designers, storytellers, musicians ... for organising community events led by grassroots community groups - organising media campaigns within the communities and outside. building alliances and getting more influence - with grassroot community groups from the Borough and from London and even further - identifying networks with possible political influence on the Council or the GLA - collaborating journalists, data miners, insiders, whistleblowers to expose injustice and scandals - identifying developers networks and their practice processes to oppose their negative action on communities portraying the neighbourhood as it exists today and its local history over the last 10/30/50 years - producing surveys, reports, atlas ... designing (counter) community-led plans - giving advice about legal framework for community initiatives (neighbourhood plan, charter ...) - supporting the co-creation with residents (workshops, community mapping, expertise tours, models and graphic documents, policy writing ...) - supporting a Social Impact Assessment (of council or community plan)
