Ahead of the coming end of the Big City Plan consultation here are two Wordle illustrations of what’s being said:
1. The original document (top 10,000 words) [Wordle] [PDF]
2. The comments so far on Big City Talk (top 10,000 words) [Wordle] [PDF]
Both of these are best viewed either on their respective Wordle pages or PDFs (both [...]
The Big City Plan is out for consultation, and it asks some pretty big, and open questions about the city.
Not least this open invitation for anyone who has an interest in the cultural expression of the people of Birmingham:
What further cultural and arts facilities might be needed in the city centre to promote the national [...]
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It’s all been a bit quiet online about the Big City Plan for a while now. Other than Birmingham Central’s summaries, I haven’t seen much (maybe I’m looking in the wrong place?).
I was beginning to think I was never going to get any text content to get my teeth into to start [...]
Last night we ran the second in Creative Republic’s events around a creative response to the Big City Plan based around defining a “Fantasy brief for a Creative Director for Birmingham”.
Unfortunately, our planned speaker (the designer Michael Wolff) was ill and unable to attend. We were warned that might be the case the day before, [...]
In the first of my video blog posts I was pretty amazed by one of the comments in particular that came back and it looks like we’ve spawned a project if I can find some people to collaborate with to make it happen (open invite).
So how about we apply some of that ‘Local Ideas Bank’ [...]
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