Large-scale community project

Thu Jul 22 01:47:47 PDT 2010

Dear Liz,

if you need sticky walls ICA UK has them
http://www.ica-uk.org.uk/books-resources/ and decades of experience they are
happy to share.

If you are looking at cardboard walls feel free to contact me, we have a
longstanding relationship with the producer www.stange-design.de (german
laguage site) here, who have in the past been reluctant to expand
internationally - however they do ship ;)

We often equip large scale events with materials as part of our services and
with growing numbers it works best to use less - mainly for safety reasons &
also ease of orientation - do ask your local fire department or whoever is
responsible. Check the regulations on materials you may or may not utilize.

We have often used large gym halls or indoor stadiums which usually offer
lots of wall space one can utilize directly - just using masking tape &
large balloons with numbers have worked fine for orientation.

all the best, michael

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Liz Martins <lizmartins2 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Dear all
>
>
>
> I’m involved in a large-scale community project in Bristol, UK, based on
> OS. As well as local OS events across the city, it culminates in large (1500
> people) OS event in February. I’ll put information about the project below,
> if you’re interested.
>
>
>
> No doubt I’ll be coming to the list quite a few times over the next months,
> but just now I’d really appreciate some help about…
>
>
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> ·         Whether anyone has a large event coming up (in the UK or Europe)
> that might be possible for some of our project team to attend
>
> ·         Whether anyone has done something like our project and is
> willing to share any learning
>
>
>
> And, starting to think about the process detail for the big event (which is
> in a big theatre with additional breakout space in a large modern extension
> so has limitations on flexibility)
>
>
>
> ·       We know we’re going to need masses of additional wall space and
> wondering how best to achieve this - we’ve seen/heard of people using
> portable stands, cardboard walls etc – what’s out there?
>
> ·       What about people signing up or not signing up – what’s lost if
> they don’t do this and just go to the conversations? The ‘traffic’ is going
> to be a challenge, and this would be one less thing to do.
>
> ·       Our plan is to have separate sections of wall for the different
> session times – but within this, any thoughts about whether, given the large
> numbers of people, it’s best to use a grid or free-form posting using
> post-its?
>
> ·       Experience of using large video screen(s) so people can see what’s
> going on the wall?
>
> ·       Thoughts about convergence in very large events?
>
> ·       Anything else that you think of that might be helpful….!
>
>
>
> With many thanks in anticipation of help
>
>
>
> Liz
>
>
>
> Liz Martins
>
> *lizmartins2 at gmail.com* <lizmartins2 at gmail.com>
>
> +44 (0)7977 932066
>
>
> *Bristol Open Space Project - Part of EY2010: European Year for Combating
> Poverty and Social Exclusion.* *A Better Bristol For All*
>
>
>
> The Open Space project is part of a larger European project (EY2010). Key
> aims are to give voice to those experiencing poverty and social exclusion
> and also to raise awareness of how we need to work together as a society
> towards equality and inclusion. Bristol’s response to EY2010 is a series of
> events and projects around the whole city under the heading of “Working
> Together for Positive Change”.
>
>
>
> The Open Space project,  A Better Bristol For All, aims to support better
> contact and flow of creativity between local grassroots social and community
> action groups within the context of the whole of Bristol.  Each
> neighbourhood is being invited to put on an Open Space event to look at
> local connections and creativity and then culminate in coming together in
> February 2011 in one mass open space event. This will bring together the
> ideas, creativity and inspiration that has been sparked locally, so that
> Bristol comes together, to be more in contact, more creative, and move to a
> Better Bristol for All.
>
>
>
> The project starts with forming a project team of about 16 people keen to
> learn about facilitating OS meetings and using it in their future work in
> communities. The aim is to grow ‘OS’ facilitation as a resource for the
> city. Most of these people are already signed up. There’s a one-day training
> in OS for them in September with more during the project.
>
>
>
> The flow of the project is to start with a central focus involving key
> people, then out to local communities, and then back to the major event in
> February. In October there’s an OS day with about 100 people from the
> council and Bristol city neighbourhood partnerships, grassroots community
> groups, service users etc. This event will provide the impetus for taking
> the project out to the local areas. In Nov/Dec/Jan there will be 12 local
> neighbourhood OS events across the city, funded by the project and
> facilitated by people from the project team, working with local organisers.
> Then, in February there will be the final big OS event bringing together
> people from across the city who have been involved in the neighbourhood
> events, and others, including from European cities twinned with Bristol.  The
> key themes that come out of the project will be taken forward and presented
> to local and national government.
>
>
>
> I’m holding responsibility for the OS process, with my colleague Vivian
> Broughton who had the vision for the project initially. We will be training
> and supporting the project team and facilitating events ourselves or
> supporting project team members to do so. The logistics, budget, PR etc and
> everything else are being held elsewhere, though we will be involved where
> it impacts on the OS process. Vivian and I both have experience of
> facilitating OS, and Vivian was at the big 2000+ event in Germany
> facilitated by HO and Michael P, but we haven’t done it like this before, at
> such scale. We expect to be very surprised!
>
>
>
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