Toolkit for the 21st Century Village

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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Introductions
Nick Gant Teresa Gittins University of
Brighton Action in rural Sussex Sustainable
Design Research Rural Community Council
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Context A
Green and Pleasant Land.? Land-locked
islands Land as a factory More dependant on
non-renewables (especially oil)
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Context Don
t mention the S word
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Context Don
t mention the S word
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Context Don
t mention the S word Whats a mega-tonne? Too
enormous, complex, contradicting, over-facing,
too abstract Polemic and absolute Individual, not
global gains
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Context Gove
rnmental mandate Community led planning The
facilitators (community and Rural Community
Council)
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Context
Our
Us
My
Me
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Context Posi
tive gains
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Context Posi
tive gains Capable of measurable change
(transferable, micro models) Active Communities
identifying their own priorities and
actions Possible access to resources (community
farms and growing schemes, land, fuel
resources) Greater self-sufficiency Local,
social, ethical, economic (and environmental )
well-being Changing views and behavior
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village The
partnership - complimentary expertise and gains
University of Brighton Huge range of social
engagement, design and communication
projects Rural Community Councils (RCCs) The
Human link Community Planning and Village
Action Plans Expertise / case study / reach /
implementation / uniquely linked to government
(Defra/ Government) Complimentary agendas
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village The
partnership - complimentary expertise and gains
sustainability is a communication problem -
communication design expertise and community
engagement expertise sustainability is a
behavioral problem - social science expertise
and social engagement expertise
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village The
partnership and network University of Brighton
(Nick Gant, Hamish Makgill, Andrew Church, Neil
Ravenscroft) Action in rural Sussex (Teresa
Gittins) Action in Communities of Rural England
(ACRE) South East Development Agency (SEEDA -
Climate Change South East) Department of
Agriculture and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Nick Waites
associates - Nick Waites
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• Toolkit for the 21st Century Village
• The brief
• Design a Toolkit devise that
• Facilitates sustainable development in rural
  communities
• Empowers individual and group facilitators to
  enact sustainable community planning
• Visualises and makes tangible local (and global)
  effect
• That measures progress, change and impact
• Taking advantage of new opportunities
  (technology)
• Disciplines (Design, technology, community
  development, policy intermesh)

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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Project
plan RCC questionnaire Community
Consultations Design sessions
Prototyping Testing Response and
analysis Roll-out Further
development (school / urban)
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Toolkit for the 21st Century Village Nick Gant
(University of Brighton) and Teresa Gittins
(Action in Rural Sussex)
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