Draft Report v1.0
Through CityLabs LECP workshops contributors and participants engaged in co-creation exercises around: • Collectively imagining possibilities for the City’s future • Discussing foresights and insights: opportunities and challenges to realising possible or preferred futures • Identifying current assets, drivers, gaps and new thinking needed to inform future planning Three workshops - The CityLabs team led on delivering two LECP Community Engagement workshops that aimed to bring together representative voices from the City to help shape and inform the development of Cork City’s new Local Economic and Community Plan. A subsequent third workshop provided opportunity for the internal City Council Staff to bring their personal and professional expertise, know-how and insights to the dialogue. The approach engaged people in considering Cork at City scale, cross-cutting on all themes, whilst the storytelling approach ensured stakeholders could connect from their personal knowledge and expertise. During workshops, stakeholders participated together in facilitated groups to imagine the future, consider where we are now and focus on what’s needed to respond to the dynamics of change. Insights and the potential types of responses and interventions arising has been subsequently mapped against the LECP themes. Embedded activities also supported an asset-based approach to capturing a description of the ‘current state’ and effectively collectively mapping existing assets and resources in the City. Provides Table discussions were supported by resources and materials on the table including a map of the city, the LECP Draft High Level goals, the SWOT already conducted and a selection of news headlines to prompt and support futures oriented thinking.
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