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Recent Events...

A Dundee Wave of Change 3rd meeting
The third meeting of the Dundee Wave of Change project took place on 23 June at The Shore. Read about it here.

Rotary Club talk
Steve Carter gave a talk about Go Dundee and Dundee Wave of Change to the Rotary Club of Dundee Discovery on 13 April 2010 at West Park Centre.

Go Dundee joins Dundee Partnership
Go Dundee has been invited to become a member of the Dundee Partnership Forum and attended the meeting on 17 March 2010 at the Apex Hotel. The subject of the meeting was promoting Dundee as a centre for renewable energy business.

Dundee Wave of Change
On Thursday 3rd December 2009 the Dundee Wave of Change was launched as part of the 'Scottish Wave of Change' - re-imagining the future and creatively engaging with how the city sees itself. For more information on the launch, see here. If you wish to be involved in this please email us. A follow up event for Dundee Wave of Change was held on Tues 26th January 2010 - details here.

"Dundee: Learning City - Learning Through Life" on 10th Nov 2009
This was an inspirational event attended by over 100 people at the Apex Hotel, Dundee. Attendees were treated to three great speakers and an opportunity for creative conversation with people who want to make a difference. Click here to read what the speakers and the attendees had to say about Dundee: Learning City. Click the YouTube link on the home page to watch the Go Dundee presentation about the great things happening right here in the City of Dundee.

Dundee Learning Journey on 29th August 2009
The third Dundee Learning Journey was an outstanding success! To see some video and pictures click here for the learning journey page. Read Colin Anderson's blog on the 2009 Learning Journey here.

Dundee Wave of Change – Launch

Feedback from the Dundee Wave of Change event on Thursday 3rd December 2009

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.

Go Dundee has been approached to gauge interest in a Dundee Wave of Change project.  A launch event was held on Thursday 3rd December at which attendees explored how we should respond to this opportunity and begin the process of creative conversation.

The issues addressed at the meeting were:

  1. How should we define the various communities within Dundee?
  2. How can we communicate with each of the defined communities?

DEFINING THE COMMUNITIES IN DUNDEE

Geographical

  • Local community planning partnerships – including disadvantaged people

Identity

  • Universities and College – students and staff
  • Schools – pupils, staff and parents
  • Work / businesses
    • Locations, e.g. workplaces, commuters
    • Staff and customers, e.g. retailing, hospitalit
    • Business representative organisations, e.g. Chamber, Federation of Small Businesses, City Centre Action Group, etc.
  • Age – pre-school, retired groups, excluded young people, etc.
  • Health:
    • Staff employed in health-related services
    • carers, community groups, disability groups, etc.

Interest

  • Arts & culture – Rep, DCA, Science Centre, music, drama, art, nightlife, etc.
  • Science – life sciences, etc.
  • Digital media – computer games, etc.
  • Sport
  • Religion / faith
  • Ethnicity
  • Gender
  • Shoppers

Age

  • Should use ‘virtual communities’ with age ranges as proposed by Tom Schuller at the Learning City event, i.e.
    • under 25
    • 25 to 50
    • 50 to 75
    • 75+

Socio-economic

  • Need to recognise that there is a substantial disaffected community within Dundee
  • There are also transient groups such as students and temporary workers

METHODS OF COMMUNICATION

  • Listen!
  • Promote ‘blethers’ in pubs, cafes, clubs, etc. – organise a Big Blether Day
  • Media phone-ins / local paper letters pages
  • Discussions at home – switch off the TV!
  • Community councils
  • Community Centre Network plus libraries, medical centres and other community facilities
  • Social networking (requires internet access)
  • Schools should play a greater role in their community, e.g. evening access
  • Use story-telling to make connections with certain groups, e.g. the elderly
  • Media – use radio (Tay, Wave) and local newspapers ( Courier, Telegraph) to make connections
  • Aims of communication exercise:
    • to create a real planning process with proposals and dialogue
    • to secure ownership of a genuinely shared vision
    • need somewhere to leave/collect thoughts and comments
    • linguistic sticklebrick
  • Need to work out how to measure the success of the Wave of Change initiative, e.g. improved confidence, morale, perspective

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.godundee.co.uk/coming-events/dundee-wave-of-change/

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

http://www.gerryhassan.com