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Northern Futures Open Ideas Day16th Oct 2014
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What is Northern Futures? 1234
What happened during Open Ideas Days?
Vote and comment on your favourite idea on the Northern Futures platformhttp://northernfutures.dialogue-app.com/join-the-discussion-on-northern-growth
The ideas generated & tools used
Northern Futures
What is Northern Futures?
Northern Futures is an initiative by the Deputy Prime Minister. It has crowdsourced ideas from the public at http://northernfutures.dialogue-app.com/join-the-discussion-on-northern-growth with the question:
“How can we build on the strengths in the North to create an economic core in the heart of the region that can compete with the biggest cities in the world”
Open Ideas Day
Overview of the day
On October 16th 2014, the Policy Lab at the Cabinet Office coordinated 8 open ideas days across the north of England.
The all day sessions were held simultaneously in Liverpool, Lancaster, York, Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds and Hull, bringing around 200 people together to share ideas, collaborate, and contribute to the northern futures project.
Open Ideas Day
Open Ideas Day
Introduction
The Deputy Prime Minister opened the day with a future-focused challenge.
The challenge invited participants to focus on the theme of ‘Great North 2030’.
The film can be seen here
Participants
192 people took part ranging from young people to local leaders and business entrepreneurs.
This equates to 1,152 hours of ideas in one day.
Open Ideas Day
Facilitators & hosts
● Mark Bailey and Joyce Yee at The Toffee Factory in Newcastle
● Claire Coulton at Imagination Lancaster
● Heather Niven and Ian Graham at Aviva in York
● Dave Briggs at Hull History Centre ● Lucy Kimbell at ODI Leeds in Leeds● Phillippa Rose at
Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences in Sheffield
● Esko Reinikainen and Nicola Wass at 1 Mann Island, hosted by Merseytravel in Liverpool
● Robert Woolf and Kathryn Woolf at Google Manchester.
Open Ideas Day
How to run an ideas day?
1. It all starts with a challenge2. Get into teams and find out your
skills3. Think about the user4. Get creative5. Making is really effective6. Swap and steal7. When its over, its over8. Have fun (but with a serious aim)
You can watch our introduction video here
Open Ideas Day
What happened on the day
This section highlights ideas that were generated across the open ideas days
Ideas generatedSheffield
Key statsAttendees: 24Venue: Centre for Social SciencesIdeas:• Really smart cities: creating green
sustainable cities that can act as models across the North
• Pop up parliament: a decentralised Parliament that rotates across regional cities
• Resilient communities: Investing in self-resilient connected communities to determine the future of the North
• #NCUK: Making sure that cities are properly connected through proper infrastructure and devolution
• Integrated strategy: A holistic approach, integrating the best of all four ideas above.
Ideas generatedManchester
Key statsAttendees: 26Venue: GoogleIdeas:• Connect North: an integrated
transport and communication plan• Enlightened cities: improving
governance & accountability• Retaining young talent in the North:
a business and industry led career service and network of employers
• Empowering communities and entrepreneurship: a community toolbox to allow people to make real change
Ideas generatedLancaster
Key statsAttendees: 21Venue: Lancaster UniversityIdeas:
● Deciding our Future: Constitutional reform - strong local and regional governance
● Call of the Wild: What is different about 'the north' - how do we harness the local and the 'wild'
● Lets be Onesie with politics: Decentralisation and a less adversarial style of politics
● Reverse the brain drain: How can we ensure that the best and the brightest know that the north can provide them with all of the economic opportunities they require?
Ideas generatedHull
Key statsAttendees: 26Venue: Hull History Centre
● a social network where young people can meet businesses directly, find out what businesses are looking for and market their own skills
● the 4Cs: cooperation, communication, creativity and commerce - invest in high speed transport and internet to create the conditions for business
● collaborate, rather than compete with each other, to develop centres of excellence in different northern cities
Ideas generatedLeeds
Key statsAttendees: 19Venue: ODI LeedsIdeas:
● LUSH: An open innovation platform that allows users to design services they need
● Northern Works Hub: Providing job opportunities for NEETs
● Mobile Yorkshire: Improve the transport links throughout the north of England, and create a West Yorkshire Metro
● Maker Library Network: A series of ‘makerspaces’ across the North
Ideas generatedYork
Key statsAttendees: 27Venue: AvivaIdeas:
● Rubic North: harness the power of flexible working, by using the built resources we already have
● A multi-centered economic hub: improve digital and physical connections between northern cities, by devolving powers and funds to key areas.
● Retain excellent graduate talent: improve links between universities and SMEs, and relax planning laws to create affordable city-centre accommodation.
Ideas generatedNewcastle
Key statsAttendees: 28Venue: The Toffee FactoryIdeas:
● Spark in 2020: An Innovation Hub to help develop solutions for emerging markets including ageing, sustainability, digital, offshore, life sciences and other areas of strength
● Northern Lights: a business-for-business trust designed to provide financial power to Northern businesses
● Great North Networks: 21st century rail and internet infrastructure
● Schuni: school, businesses and communities focusing on learners
Ideas generatedLiverpool
Key statsAttendees: 21Venue: Mann IslandIdeas:• Entrepreneurial Seaturtles:
returning graduates acting as advocates and support for young people
• Magnetic North: a formal body which can sell the north
• Live, work and play in the north... one hour travel time between any city in the north
• Empower: Creating a citizen-owned energy hub across the region to harness renewable energy
Creative tools usedThis section contains a few of the tools and techniques that were used
Ice breaker
Creative tools
Everyone has an envelope with a name badge inside and they have to go and find that person out of all the others in the room – and find out who they are!
Manchester
Ideas stimuli
Creative tools
Use local and national newspapers to stimulate discussion about current challenges northern cities are facing.
York
Studio Design Sessions
Creative tools
Come up with an idea and do a quick 30 second pitch to get immediate feedback from your peers to improve the solution
Liverpool
Personas
Creative tools
A great way to really get into the shoes of the people you are designing for is to imagine who they are, what they do and what else is going on in their life
Newcastle
World Cafe
Creative tools
People sit in groups and generate ideas to solve a particular problem. One person stays on that table, and everyone else moves round every 5 minutes to challenge and build the other ideas.
Sheffield
Asset mapping
Creative tools
This activity involves participants in collectively creating and then describing a visual map of the assets and resources in Leeds and the North.
Leeds
Want to know more?
You can read more about it on our Open Policymaking blog or see pictures from all the venues at our Flickr account
