Dundee Wave of Change

Just imagine…

What will Dundee look like in 2020? What will it feel like to be in the City – in your part of the City?

Imagine that Dundee has continued to flourish, has become a fantastic place to live across all parts of the city. What has enabled this? What stories would you tell about how we achieved this together? What has your part been? And what have others contributed?

That’s what Dundee Wave of Change is all about. A two to three year project where people gather and creatively describe the story of Dundee’s success in 2020 – and we want to engage as many people as possible in imagining this potential, in telling their stories …

We had a launch event on Thursday 3rd December, and the flipchart / summaries from the session will be posted here.

Meantime, if you would like to get involved – please email here.

Or you can join the facebook group here.

We would like the widest possible range of people to come along to the Launch event for Dundee Wave of Change. People from all parts of the City, from different organisations, from all age ranges and from all of the diverse communities in the City. Therefore please get in touch with anyone you think might be interested and who can help us spread the word and widen the invitation.

Background

A Scottish Wave of Change follows on from the work of Scotland 2020 and Glasgow 2020 which Gerry Hassan led with the UK think tank Demos broke new ground in Scotland, the UK and internationally by developing innovative ways of imagining the future through stories and the concept of ‘mass imagination’. The projects produced two books, numerous resources, skills and tools, and even, for Glasgow 2020, a music album. Both of these projects

One of the primary strands of A Scottish Wave of Change is to develop a series of conversations, discussions and events in a number of places across the country over the course of the project. This will allow for long-term relationships to be built and different groups of people and ways of working to be developed.

Dundee Wave of Change would become a distinct strand of work as part of the wider Scottish Wave of Change with a variety of activities including story telling and imagining the future. It could create its own Dundee-specific resources and publications while also being part of a unique Scottish and international project.

For further information please take a look at the following web links:

http://www.vds.org.uk/tabid/384/Default.aspx

http://www.gerryhassan.com