Framework for a pilot project
Our Kind OF TOwn
‘Towards a Citizens Atlas of London’ Phil Cohen Livingmaps network www.livingmaps.org.uk
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The context London, home from home for global property investment, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
LiVinGMAPS nETwOrK Framework for a pilot project Our Kind OF TOwn Towards a Citizens Atlas of London Phil Cohen Livingmaps network www.livingmaps.org.uk 1 LiVinGMAPS nETwOrK The context London, home from home for global property
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estate speculation and fjnancialisation of assets
West to East
and working class suburbs
intensifjed ground control
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forums to create a grass roots structure of decision making with capacity to regulate market forces in the interests of civic and community stakeholders
women’s needs
teenagers
access to public amenities
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residents facing an uncertain future to envisage and articulate their
day survival with collective aspirations based on realistic principles
political geography of London as a world city. What does it mean to be a ‘Londoner’?
amongst marginalised groups
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a community of shared practice
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urban economy?
and cultural amenity for lower income groups, for women and children, and for the disabled?
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with little or no tradition of community activism but which will fjnd themselves on the front line of gentrifjcation and de- industrialisation.
culture of popular planning, scaling up locally situated knowledge into a translocal framework of democratic deliberation about London’s future.
material to support these aims.
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participatory action research focused on maximising ‘place intelligence’.
areas’ identifjed in the London 2050 infrastructure plan
useful to residents and small businesses facing large scale regeneration plans which threaten their future.
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IMAGE: Diagram of the OKOT process (Nicolas Fonty)
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IMAGE: Map of North Woolwich and Charlton in 1937
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Community issues
skilled manual workers to relocate to make way for higher value residential uses
estates decanted for ‘refurbishment’
(old ): Coreys Wharf - Charlton F . C. (new): Sainsburys DC - Odeon Imax
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Community issues
threatens to increase already high level of pollution
continuing planning blight
UEL Docklands Campus Excel Centre Newham Council Offjces
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crime and pollution hot spots
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IMAGE: Nicolas Fonty
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IMAGE: Nicolas Fonty
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IMAGE: Nicolas Fonty
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Workshop Process: Stage one
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IMAGE: John Wallett
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Workshop Process: Stage Two:
community activists
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IMAGE: Phil Cohen
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Workshop Process: Stage Three
student planners and architects
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maximising land values and rentier profjt
and environmental justice
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Visions of the Future
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Woolwich (verso)
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connecting personal and political geographies
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London Mapper
Visualisation of big data on social inequality. Quantitative not qualitative. Produced by professionals for
Just Map
The cartographic arm of Just Space, networking activist groups to develop a community led plan for
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Groundwork in each area
Pop-up Community Mapping Events
Construct Area Profjles Community Asset and Liability Map
Workshop Programme
Atlas Prototype Built and Tested Toolkit Built and Tested
Dissemination Programme
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Phil Cohen: Project Management and evaluation
An urban ethnographer turned cultural geographer by trade, Phil has worked with communities in East London since the early 1970s charting the impact of economic and demographic change on the livelihoods, life styles and life stories of several generations of East Londoners. He has pioneered participatory forms of research in exploring issues of class, race, gender and generation as these are impacted by processes of urban regeneration. Amongst his many books are Knuckle Sandwich: Growing up in the working class city; Rethinking the Youth Question; London’s Turning: the making of Thames Gateway and On the Wrong side of the track? East London and the Post Olympics. He is the Research Director of Livingmaps Network, the Editor in Chief of Livingmaps Review, Emeritus Professor at the University of East London and a Research Fellow of the Young Foundation. www. philcohenworks.com
Giota Alevizou
Giota Alevizou is a researcher interested in the relationship of digital media and citizenship was developed during her research and teaching in the Open University. During the last 6 years she has conducted funded research into urban media ecologies and creative civic activism. Most recently she was the principle investigator of an ESRC funded research project exploring the links between digital communication, critical cartography and community asset mapping.
nicole Crockett
Nicole Crockett is a social architect and Chief Executive of the Building Exploratory where she provides strategic leadership to a team devising innovative education and lifelong learning opportunities for thousands of school children and hard to reach adults across East London. Throughout her career she has maintained a commitment to architecture, raising its profjle among the wider population and promoting an agenda of inclusiveness. Her community based work on the built environment was recently recognised by the award of an Honorary Fellow at the RIBA.
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Barbara Brayshay
Barbara Brayshay is a Director of Livingmaps and Editor of the Waypoints section of Livingmaps
nicolas Fonty
Nicolas Fonty is an, architect, urban designer, planner and community mapper. From 2008 to 2013 Nicolas worked on Greater Paris master planning within the Secchi-Vigano team for the Atelier Internationnal du Grand Paris. He co-founded Occupy#PublicSpaces to collaboratively map, through workshops during neighbourhood festivals, the place intelligence of local residents in the Paris suburbs. Since coming to London he has played an active role in the development of the Livingmaps Network, editing the Mapworks section of its online journal. He also works with Just Space, developing a cartography of community activism in London. http://justplace-london. blogspot. co. uk/
debbie humphry
Debbie Humphry is a social geographer,and photographer. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of East London (UEL) and works with a range of voluntary and public sector clients and partners. Her research area include housing/home, neighbourhood and community, relations of class and inequality, and social
and media publications, as has her photography, including in The Guardian, the Observer magazine, The National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Festival Hall London
John wallett
John Wallett is a graphic and information designer and educator who has worked with arts, education and campaign organisations in East London for over twenty-fjve years. He is a founder of the ‘Common Knowledge’ network and is also founder member of the pop-up community cinema project ‘Moving Image’ in East Anglia. John has been responsible for the design of many Livingmaps project proposals, displays and web-based projects, delivering creative mapping projects in the Stratford E20 area and more recently in North Colchester. He is currently planning a knowledge mapping project for the Science Museum.
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Just Space/JustMap development Planning unit Bartlett uCL Centre for East London Studies uEL The Building Exploratory Mapping for Change
Alberto duman royal docks Music for Master Planning Project roy Tindle Charlton riverside Activist and resident Sharon O’Callaghan Peoples Plan for the royal docks Emanuel Gotora London Citizens The Asta Community hub Silvertown St Johns Community Centre north woolwich new Charlton Community Centre
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