In tough times, how can we still create great places? Is it time for a JFDI approach - Just have Fun and Do It? This presentation provides a few conversation starters.

1. JFDI
[just have fun and do it]

2. six signposts to
JFDI urbanism

3. change the
story

5. Walsall 100 told the story
of a town through social
media... how can we tell
the stories of our places
differently?

6. give yourself
permission

8. In Bogota, the streets are
turned over to cyclists
every Sunday... how can
we animate our places
quickly and cheaply?

9. an offer you
can’t refuse

11. People can help
themselves to vegetables
grown on neglected bits of
public land in Todmorden...
what can we offer users of
our places that they can’t
refuse?

12. take a few
risks

14. Meanwhile Space turns
empty shop units into
space for arts and
community uses... what
risks could we take to
bring vacant space to life?

15. use a good
crisis well

17. In the US, cash-strapped
cities are using the ‘Give a
Minute’ campaign to
crowdsource ideas for
urban improvements... how
could we start listening to
‘unusual suspects’?

18. hang on
in there

20. It took 20+ years for
Balsall Heath Forum, Coin
Street and Westway
Development Trust to
change their areas... what
is our timetable?

21. thank you
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www.urbanpollinators.co.uk
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