Presentation delivered by Paul Appleby, Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone, as part of the Delegate Showcase session at Communicate 2012: Breaking Boundaries

1. Bristol Temple Quarter
The Sustainable
Opportunity
25 October 2012
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Paul Appleby, Creative Sector Chair
Creative Lead, BTQ Team

2. 2
1 6
5
1 = Plot 3 & Plot 6
3 2 = Temple Quay
3 = TCN
4 = Paintworks
5 = Temple Meads inc Commonwealth Museum
7 6 = Parcel Force – Media Office
7 = Diesel Depot
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3. 2
1 6
5
1 = Plot 3 & Plot 6
3 2 = Temple Quay
3 = TCN
4 = Paintworks
5 = Temple Meads inc Commonwealth Museum
7 6 = Parcel Force – Media Office
7 = Diesel Depot
4

4. Bristol Temple Quarter
• Creative + Technology Hub
• Superfast Broadband @ 1 Gb/sec
• Audience : 9 million passengers/annum
• 70 ha – Grade II listed; units ; BREEAM
• FE/HE Pipeline
• Business growth incentives

5. BTQ : The Vision : Core Values
• SUSTAINABLE
Ethical, genuinely sustainable, enduring, and creating a
legacy
• INCLUSIVE
Reflects & actively promotes the social, cultural &
economic diversity of the city
• INNOVATIVE
A centre of excellence for creativity & innovation

6. BTQ : The Vision : Core Values
• A SENSE OF PLACE
A unique “soul”, a clear culture; enjoyable and hard to
leave
• FOR PEOPLE
A living place, a community, not just a workplace
• LOCAL
For Bristol, not just in Bristol
•EVOLVING
Stimulates change within itself

7. BTQ : The Vision : Core Values
• BIG/SMALL
Human-scale, a local heart with a global view
• INTEGRATED
Permeable, linked to the rest of Bristol
• COLLABORATIVE
Free-thinking, integrated
• BEAUTIFUL
Exemplary development embracing design best
practice & respecting heritage

8. Bristol Temple Quarter – Opportunities
• Bristol is an
“Innovation Hot
Spring”
• Maintaining and
growing diversity is
the key to
developing a
“Dynamic Ocean”
not a pool or lake
• The influx of
bright people
drives this

9. Bristol Temple Quarter - Imagined

10. Digital Enterprise Zone
Part of £12 M
Urban
Broadband
Fund bid
Extending
coverage &
capacity
With direct
audience linkage
– social housing,
university, etc. for
testbed

11. Bristol Temple Quarter Promotion
• Inward Investment
• Events and animation
- Creative Common
- See No Evil 2
- Encounters
- Wildscreen
- Vision
• Community as
bloggers

12. Bristol Temple Quarter
Breaking out from Old Thinking :
Simplicity is replaced by complexity

13. Bristol Temple Quarter
Breaking out from Old Thinking :
Simplicity is replaced by complexity
Eco-conscience is not a cost but a benefit

14. Bristol Temple Quarter
Breaking out from Old Thinking :
Simplicity is replaced by complexity
Eco-conscience is not a cost but a benefit
Dogma is replaced by a robust framework
to defeat sceptics

15. Bristol Temple Quarter
Breaking out from Old Thinking :
Simplicity is replaced by complexity
Eco-conscience is not a cost but a benefit
Dogma is replaced by a robust framework
to defeat sceptics
Elitism is replaced by common-sense

16. Bristol Temple Quarter
Breaking out from Old Thinking :
Simplicity is replaced by complexity
Eco-conscience is not a cost but a benefit
Dogma is replaced by a robust framework
to defeat sceptics
Elitism is replaced by common-sense
Doing to… is replaced by doing with…

17. Bristol Temple Quarter
What we have to find :
The SMART city – a new definition
of urban human growth

18. Bristol Temple Quarter
Challenges & Questions?
Paul Appleby
07831 719646
paul@vidcomms.co.uk