A presentation about a project I led in Dundee to engage citizens in Dundee's Bid to become UK City of Culture in 2017, through a digital platform, We Dundee. www.wedundee.com

1. Pride in Place:
The role of digital placemaking
Gillian Easson
@gillianeasson
www.creativedundee.com

2. www.creativedundee.com
Creative Dundee - amplifying and connecting talent

3. 1
TRUST, SHARED VISION AND STRONG PARTNERSHIP
Dundee bids to become UK City of Culture 2017

4. 2
HIGH QUALITY DESIGN AND DIGITAL WORK
#wedundee

6. 3
EVERYONE HAS A VIEW AND IT IS HEARD
What surprises you about the city?
www.karenlyttle.co.uk

8. 4
KEPT THE MOMENTUM GOING...
57,943 views,
95 countries, 974 cities, 3,500
posts, 4 mins = average visit.

10. 5
TEAM EFFORT - MEDIA, STUDENTS, BUSINESSES, CREATIVES...

13. 6
AGGREGATING, CURATING AND SHARING THE STORY

14. 7
MAKING HIDDEN DATA OPEN

15. 8
ENABLING CO-CURATION OF IDEAS

16. 9
DIGITAL DATA TAKES ON CULTURAL LIFE OF ITS OWN
30th September 2013
Dundee Dreaming by W.N.Herbert
Let culture inscribe on its banners
we hold these desires to be Deep Sea Dundonian:
that a giant organ be built into the banks of the Tay
to play shanties when the waves crash into it
that life-size whale sculptures should appear on the sandbanks
as the tide goes out
that folk in huge inflatable footballs should race across the river
that the Fifie be brought back like the mammoth from extinction
that the City Arcade be reopened beneath the Caird Hall
that a racing circuit for formula one grand prix
should run through the city centre streets and up the Kingsway
that sculptures of Oor Wullie's bucket be placed all over the toon
for fowk to sit doon
that Clarky's Bakery should open 25 hours a day
that the Royal Arch be rebuilt
the Overgate restored
that a cable car should go from the city centre up the Law
that the Law Hill be given over to unicorns for grazing in perpetuity
that the Law should be reinstated as a volcano
that the railway tunnel through the Law Hill should contain
one million lightbulbs for James Bowman Lindsay
that the spire on the top of the old Chamber of Commerce be completed
that the cobbles in Strawberry Bank be replaced by actual strawberries
that the holy stumps of the fallen rail bridge be illuminated
that something should be done about the wheelie bins on Peddie Street
that all the city's lights be turned off so the people may lie on their backs
strumming luminous ukuleles and watching the heavens
that the rings of Saturn rise and halo the Mills Observatory
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www.wedundee.com

17. 10
PRIDE IN PLACE

18. Partnership:
We Dundee - www.wedundee.com
Fleet Collective - www.fleetcollective.com
Dundee Partnership - www.dundeepartnership.co.uk
Creative Dundee - www.creativedundee.com
Gillian Easson
gillian@creativedundee.com
@gillianeasson