a slideshow from the festival of the future city on the ways in which academic research can link with the needs of policy, at the sub-national level

1. Final session
Co-producing urban
research for the future

2. Key Question
WHAT is the innovative institutional
form/platform at the city (-regional)
scale which
– Enables collective learning processes
– Materialises “cognitive surplus”
– Manifests different circuits of credibility
– Harnesses capacity to work differently
• in/on/with place
• with a spatial and long-term focus

3. Institutional form

4. Collective learning
The meeting of knowledge and the city is a fertile
ground for recombining the biological, cultural and
political endowment of humankind. Beyond the
dominance intentions and internal contradictions of
globalism, the planetary knowledge societies of the
21st century will have the possibility for the first time
in human history to consciously and systematically
develop coexistent rules and systems based primarily
on represented realities or knowledge capitals. This
may mean an evolutionary leapfrog will be required to
overcome the huge environmental, energy, resources,
demographic, financial, sociopolitical and cultural
crises that we are just beginning to unleash.
Carillo et al. (2014) pg 271 Knowledge Markets and Urban Transformation chapter 8 of Knowledge and the City :
Concepts, Applications and Trends of Knowledge-Based Urban Development : Routledge

5. Cognitive Surplus

6. Circuits of credibility (1)

7. Circuits of credibility (2)

8. Circuits of credibility (3)

9. Place-based
• Research of/on place
• Research for/with
• Civic mission and partnerships
• Multi-layered
• “fast” and “slow”
• Graft and grow – not cut and paste

10. Building on…
• “Quadruple Helix” working @ sub-
national scale
• Foresight Future of Cities
• Urban claims regarding impactful
urban research (REF2014 cases)
• Draft paper on co-production (process
across UT/FOC in Autumn 2014)
• “Smart client” implications…

11. Models (1)
• ENOLL / UK Living labs / Other living
labs
• Carnegie Mellon Model for engaged
university
• Regeneration improvement networks
• The future cities catapult
• Transition towns / Participatory
budgeting
• Community planning partnerships
• Urban rooms Farrell Review

12. Models (2)
• Boston Urban Mechanics Lab
• BMW Guggenheim labs
• Playable cities
• Global Exchange Festival NYC
• Conventional spin-outs
• Transeuropa

13. Explore & Discuss
HOW (with whom?) can we people such
a structure?
• With what capabilities?
• Using what tools?
• With what circuits of reward
• within and beyond universities?

14. Table Task
Discuss HOW to co-produce urban
research for the future
Suggest models or examples of working
with policy and across boundaries for and
with places
Reflect on policy insights possible

15. Bristol Workshop
17th November 2015

16. introduction
Fellowship 2015/16
Urban Transformations and
Foresight Future of Cities 2065
Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow
COMPAS, University of Oxford host
GO-Science (BIS) sponsor
ESRC (Research Council) funder

17. introduction
1. research fields, scanning academic
disciplines and the state of the art
2. developing research agenda on the
future of the city
3. networking links and knowledge
mobilisation
4. influencing emergent networks

19. What is Foresight 2065?
- Working Papers (16)
- Lead Expert Group (28 meetings)
- Civil servant support @1VCS
- Local projects with unis and without
- Special interest groups
- CSAG

20. What is Foresight 2065?
- Working Papers (16)
- Lead Expert Group
- Civil servant support @1VS
- Local projects with unis and without
- Special interest groups
- CSAG

21. National Foresight
Foresight City
Network
City Pilots
City Vision
Community
Newcastle:
Report
Complete
Cardiff:
Just Starting
Manchester:
Report
Complete
Liverpool:
Complete
London:
UCL city leadership
Devolution
Agenda/Societal
Challenges
Foresight
Working Papers
•Rochdale
•Bristol
•Milton Keynes
•Belfast
•Birmingham
•Cambridge
•Derby
•Derry/
Londonderry
•Edinburgh
•Glasgow
•Lancaster
•Leeds
•Leicester
•London
•Nottingham
•Oxford
•Reading
•Sheffield
Other future
city/region initiatives
• Northern Powerhouse
• Catapult – Future Cities
• ESRC Urban Transformations
• Etc……….