What are Third Places, what are their key characteristics & features? What have we learnt on the #oosEU project and how can they help build the participatory city 2.0? What have we learnt about how citizen actions can help create new socio-economic contexts through Cultural Regeneration and how can we feed that forward into new processes of legitimacy? Could this be the role of the emerging #CityZen

1. Third Places & City 2.0
@fredgarnett #oosEU Pula 28th April 2016

2. Third Place & City 2.0
Third Place
Some (British) History
The Origin of Spaces
City 2.0… #CityZens
@FredGarnett FRSA LKL; Social
Improv
LBL Citizens Connect 1997-99

3. Previously on @fredgarnett we saw…
Designing Participatory Smart Cities

4. Some (British) History
In London Covent Garden was the first Square

5. In 1971 property development was planned
But residents objected, occupied, changed

6. Leaving the Covent Garden of today
Tourist Attraction, heart of the West End

7. In 1992 Deptford Creek faced Regeneration
But residents objected, occupied, changed

8. Instead of a high-end Marina
We kept the Creek tidal & an open public space

9. Creekside Centre Sustainable build…
Used in Olympics 2012 build (IOC standard)

10. Urban Ecology rools OK!
Crofton Fields (Riverways project)

11. Recently celebrated on BBC TV Culture Show
For Art Walks (SLAW) & cultural regeneration
Social action
Cultural regeneration
Property speculation

12. The Third Place
Third Place & City 2.0

13. The Third Place or…
How to build community in #digital society
1st Place
Home
2nd Place
Work
3rd Place
Community

14. Building Community @ROJC
Through Participatory Governance

15. The Third Place (Oldenburg -1)
http://en.wikipedia/oldenburg
Characteristics of the Third Place
•Free or cheap
•Provides food or drink
•It is accessible or proximate to users
•Regular members
•Has friends both old and new
•Welcoming and comfortable place
(Shared) Purpose & Value matter &

16. The Third Place (Oldenburg -2)
http://en.wikipedia/oldenburg
Key features of a Third Place
Neutral Ground (not owned/restricted)
Leveler (non-hierarchical)
Accessible to all (low barriers to entry)
A place for conversation (dialogical)
A public space for social mixing –
potentially transformative

17. The Third Place #Digital parallels 1
Social Networks and Internet Connectivity
Social Networks (Haythornthwaite 2011)
Key digital analogy to a Third Place…
… which comprise…
Strong Ties (friends / regulars)
Weak Ties (strangers / newbies)
Innovation emerges from a sweet spot
mix (“i”) of strong & weak ties.
Third Places, in offering community,
also enable creative change…

18. The Third Place #Digital parallels 2
Natural History of Innovation
Adjacent Platforms (Steven Johnson)
Enable;
•Slow Hunches (3rd place memory)
•Adaptable Networks
•Exaptation (“moving criteria across contexts”)
•Generative Innovations (Proboscis)…
Third Places mashup the strange &
the familiar… the new emerges…
http://proboscis.org.uk/2612/enabling-consequences-by-fred-garnett/

19. JISC RSC Northwest
Learner Modelling (see handout)
“Goal-seeking” motivated learners
Animateurs as “Trusted Intermediaries” provide
“timely interventions”
Animateur build learning communities & mentors
Learners respond to social needs
Animateurs suggests resources (from links page)
Model linking dynamic Third Places to participatory
Web 2.0
The Community is the Curriculum;
People want “community
development”

20. Digitale Integration (Germany)
Community Development Model of Learning
Attractor Stage;
Open, welcoming Locations, Learners follow interests
Self-supporting “learning community”
Engagement Stage;
Timely Interventions, Goal Articulation, Discussion
Counselling and Courses
Needs “Trusted Intermediaries”

21. Some (European) History
Third Place & City 2.0

22. Some (EU/GB) 3rd Place History
In Our Time – The Medieval University
1150 University of Paris chartered (for
communities of scholars)
1300 Inns & Inns of Court (lawyers)
1350 Middle Temple (Knights Templar)
1649 Diggers Commune (not enclosed)
1660 Coffee Shops; RS/A, Lloyds, Banks
1689 Pubs; Trade Unions, Music Venues
Third Places; all historically “liminal”
change emerges from the far & near

23. Some (EU/GB) 3rd Place History
Platonic Academy
1150 University of Paris chartered (for
communities of scholars)
Before Universities were self-organised
“communities of scholars”
So collaboration precedes institutions
(Plato’s Academy had no “content” it
was learning conversations)
Third Places which became institutions
& grew out of self-organised learning

24. The Origin of Spaces #oosEU
Third Place & City 2.0

25. “from action
to process”
#oosEU
Bilbao
Local
Partnerships
#oosEUlp

26. Darwin Eco-
Système
Bordeaux
Ecological
Transitions
#oosEUet
Multidisciplinary
CoWorking
#oosEUmc

27. Participatory
Governance
#oosEUpg
Place
Ladywell
Lewisham
Social
Enterprise
#oosEUse
Rojc
PULA

28. The Origin of Spaces #oosEU
ZAWP – Bilbao
Rolling process of hyper-local partnerships, permanently
debating w/the council “from action to process” #CityZens
LX Factory – Lisboa
Hyper-cool Coworking hub, designing in a social mix.
“Hoxton in a factory” a “post-welfare state” solution
ROJC – Pula
Rebuilding Civil Society (post Civil-War) through NGOs
Darwin – Bordeaux
Ecological transitions to a sustainable green economy
Capture Arts – Lewisham
Social Enterprise> Creative organisation> Cultural regeneration
Co-creating Coworking Spaces

29. The Origin of Spaces #oosEU
How Can We Create New Third Places where;
1. Social-entrepreneurs create new socially useful
enterprises (& what does that mean?)
2. Multidisciplinary CoWorking enable the
creation of new mashups aligned to our work
interests
3. Ecological transition to a sustainable economy
4. Where Local Partnerships are proactive and help
shape local agendas with communities
5. So that we can Rebuild Civil Society for all…
New Third Places & Contexts generated by self-

30. Hello Universitatae Alternativa!
CROS Bucharest

31. Third Place Learning Co-operative
CROS Bucharest

32. City 2.0 (beyond the #smartcity)
Third Place & City 2.0

33. Participatory City Futures
So, how do we engage with this social
change process as it affects us day-by-day?
How do we frame our thoughts on the kind
of places we want to live in?
Web 2.0 holds potential for participation
But existing organisations want more of the
same (same as <the past only more intense)
Transition Cities or privatised Municipalities?

34. City 2.0?
Third Place & City 2.0

35. What is City 2.0?
What is Web 2.0
What is Web 2.0?
1969 DarpaNet (connecting computers)
1975 Internet (network of networks)
1994 The Web (net transfer/sharing)
2002 Web2.0 (the participatory web)
2021 Kondratieff (long-wave cycle ends)
Web 2.0 enables (any user) to
participate in new social networks…
…new forms of social Third Place

36. So web 2.0 allows users to shape tech-use
Permanent beta, architectures of participation

37. “Technology is the essence of politics”
But are we e-enabling or transforming?

38. What is City 2.0?
Arguably in tech-enabled change;
Change is socially dialogical
rather than intellectually
dialectical
It comes from users modifying
designers’ original intentions

39. Web 2.0 & Context shaping
If web 2.0 with user-generated
content & participative qualities
Allows for “context-shaping”
Can we design a development
framework
That allows us to shape learning
contexts? City Contexts?

40. Participatory Curation
Learner-Generated Context Research Group
interested in;
”Problematising the context
space & inventing new
solutions”
Creating Development Frameworks, new tools &
extra-institutional structuring…

41. Ambient Learning City
Being “insanely ambitious”
We decided to investigate how
A multiple-context Ambient
Learning City might work
We had Emergent Learning Model
A “legitimising” Design Framework
Emergent Learning Model

42. What is City 2.0?
http://en.wikipedia/City2.0
What is City 2.0?
“…involves the Public Realm, the
commons, sharing goods and services
as well as infrastructure…”
“…Cities have the capability of providing
something for everybody, only because,
and only when, they are created by
everybody”
Participatory City 2.0…

43. Participatory City Futures
On the design side we need…
Development Frameworks to help the
dialogical design of
The city we choose to live in!
Both for
Network Society &
City 2.0 or…
CityZens Context Engineering
Development Framework for Network Society

44. Context Engineering the Participatory CityMunicipality Smart City Participatory
City 2.0
City City Hall Real-time
City Hall
Distributed
City Hall
Institution Bricks &
Mortar
Clicks &
Mortar
Participatory
Management
Street Tarmac Wifi/Digital Citizen-
generated
Contexts
Strategy Urban Plan Urban
Vision
Collaborative
Vision

45. Conclusion; interesting city spaces come -
from sustained collaborative citizen action
Social action
Cultural regeneration
Property speculation

46. Conclusion; interesting city spaces come from
1. CityZen action creates diverse city spaces
2. Web 2.0 allows dialogical user choices
3. Social change needs new framing devices
4. We can shape the contexts we live in
5. Mashups maketh new – we need
dialogical development frameworks that are
CityZens-centric
6. Collaborative Visioning…

47. Conclusion; What Would Bowie DO?
Building Citizen-Generated Contexts Creatively
We
could
be
CityZens

48. Designing Participatory Smart Cities
Some Resources&Links
Unsmart Cities blog
The City in History – Lewis Mumford
Deptford Creekside Centre
What is Web 2.0?
Open Context Model of Learning
Emergent Learning Model
Ambient Learning City
Aggregate then Curate
Everything is a Metaphor
Social Cities of Tomorrow
Where Good Ideas come from
Enabling Consequences
Against the Smart City

49. Third Places & City 2.0
@fredgarnett #oosEU Pula 28th April 2016