Loomio
Wed 1 Apr 2015 9:50PM

Smart City Lab - Process and Tactics

NT Nigel Taptiklis Public Seen by 148

The Smart City Lab will leverage previous tactics including the Smart Energy Challenge, and generate new tactics to accelerate the shift to smart, low-carbon cities.

Use this thread to discuss themes that warrant attention (eg safety>resilience, high value jobs, shift to low carbon), inspirational projects that could be adapted, and proposals for lab tactics.

DU

Deleted User Thu 2 Apr 2015 12:43AM

  • Hack Miramar and it's evolving organisation
  • The work a "Heartbeat of the City" with HM & WCC
NT

Nigel Taptiklis Fri 3 Apr 2015 7:52AM

  • The next iteration of the Smart Energy Challenge (the Smart City Challenge?)
  • Cool Science, we prototyped this with Greater Wellington and VUW as a 2014/2015 summer internship project. Stay tuned for a scaled version!

Shawnee's short report which very nicely details the process is attached.

NT

Nigel Taptiklis Fri 3 Apr 2015 7:58AM

Here's a slide outlining the process I've been using for prototyping. Thanks again to Shawnee for making a pretty slide out of my scribbles!

NT

Nigel Taptiklis Fri 3 Apr 2015 8:40AM

Here's a couple of links on Nick Williamson's Place Race.

Applying Lean & Agile Methodologies to Local Government Regulatory Planning

By Nick Williamson

As District Planning Team Leader at Whangarei District Council, I was fed up with the resource management plan change process being too slow. "There must be a better way of doing this" I thought to myself, so I looked to the Tech Start-Up movement for inspiration. With the assistance of the startup community, I hatched a plan to perform a 'mega mashup' between:

•The lean & agile methodologies from the IT Startup Community •The Google Ventures 'Design Sprint' formula •Placemaking, and it's modern evolution known as 'Tactical Urbanism' or 'Civic Hacking'
•The principles of Open Data and the Open Government movements •The emergent field of 'GeoDesign' (incorporating GIS, modelling, and creative visualisations)

The result is what we called a 'place race'. During the week of 24th February 2014 I moved the District Planning Team to the public library in Kamo, where we set about to use the principles of service design to create a prototype district plan for the suburb of Kamo (in Whangarei District) in 5 days.

Article and link to ‘Lean Canvas’ based Prezi: http://greaterplaces.com/topic/the-place-race-bringing-lean-agile-to-community-plans/

Metrics: https://prezi.com/f7nboab9nqzs/agile-regulatory-planning/