This document discusses a project called "Re-imagine London" which aims to encourage people to re-imagine and discover London in new ways. It involves workshops with young people to imagine stories about places in Southbank, and producing an "imaginary tour guide kit" including a map and postcards for others to explore Southbank. The goal is to make people excited about London again and do something creative that improves the city in a short time period.

1. Re-imagine London
Forwarding the interest of Awesome to the universe,
starting from London, one place at a time.
17.11.10
grit, jonas, vincenzo

2. The Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
have you ever been to Fedora?

3. welcome back

4. looking from a different point of view

5. how would you re-imagine London?

6. starting from Southbank

7. through the rabbit hole

8. a stolen bridge in Blackfriars

9. and what is that???

10. Re-imagine London is:
A creative exercise that encourages you to look
at London in a different way and to re-imagine
ʻwhat it could beʼ. We hope this will enable
other Londoners to discover new ways or
relating to the city.
Awe-inspiring, mind-expanding, fun.
what is re-imagine London?

11. imaginary tour guide - kit

12. who is it for?

13. why Southbank?

14. re-imagine
London
working in partnership

15. Re-imagine London (Southbank in this case)
1. two workshops with young people to imagine short
stories about spaces and places around Southbank.
2. produce a stand alone ʻimaginary tour guide kitʼ - a map
of the area and a set of postcards.
3. other visitors can use the kit to explore and re-discover
Southbank as well as giving some feedback or new ideas
to co-design and improve the experience.
how does it work?

16. Tim Simpson - Subversive Sightseeing (2006)
a step beyond provocation or tourist information...

17. £400 - storyteller, facilitator, venue, equipment.
£300 - imaginary tour guide production / print.
£200 - marketing material / guerrilla publicity.
£100 - documentation, photos & videos.
this project is a prototype and we want to
repeat and share it with other people if it works.
how will we spend the money?

18. when we arrived to London we were the aliens.
we want to get excited about London again!
we want to do something awesome
that can be made real in a short term period!
a bit about us...

19. tour guiding, sustainable tourism and social games...

20. Thanks.
“Alice didn't care what her mother said; she would
keep dreaming about it until the day when her
dreams became reality.”
grit, jonas, vincenzo