““My FutureMy Future’’s in Falkirks in Falkirk””

Basic factsArea 259 square km Population (2006) 149,680 Electorate (2007) 115,881 Housing stock (2007) 69,543 Households (2006) 66,651 Jobs (2006) 58,400

Anthony HodgsonInternational Futures Forum

FALKIRK

FalkirkGrangemouth

Firth of Forth

River Carron

2001 – Economic Crisis

Falkirk Action Plan

2002 IFF Imaginative Catalysis 1

The Falkirk Wheel –an engineering first!

2007IFF Imaginative Catalysis 2

The Helix Eco-Park Project

The Kelpies –an art first!

100 feet

2008IFF Imaginative Catalysis 3

Board and Project Team Council

Chief Officers

Positive Transitions

Group

Council Development

Group

Culture Group

Business Panel Group Community

Voluntary Sector

Neighbouring Communities

Helix Heroes (youngsters)

Waterways and Sports

Health Group

Business Interest Group

IFF ASSIMILATION

REFLECTION AND IDEAS FOR ACTION

The Multi-stakeholder

Learning Journeys

FromHierarchies

AndNetworks

ToHolarchies

The Sharing Space

The DirectorsEngage

Grangemouth strike to close pipeline at cost of £50m a day

Queues form in Scotland as panic buying spreads

Minister says stocks of fuel will be sufficient

The Guardian, Friday April 25 2008

Grangemouth refinery, which is owned and run by Ineos.

Photograph: Murdo Macleod

What are we learning here?

Seeing and shaping tomorrow requires the capacity to propose, plan and resource whilst at the same time letting loose the power of communities to vivify and shape their own lives.

Can you live simultaneously in two seemingly incompatible paradigms and retain a joyful sanity?