Resource description:
Methodology to 'navigate' the process of activating community based projects.
Author/Contact:
TURAS
Exoert contact: Roisin Byrne
Advantages:
- ComPass provides a guide for communities on the process of activation of place projects on vacant or underused places in the city, which is intended for use by communities who have place projects they wish to activate.
- To bring together knowledge on spatial agency -held separately within the local authority, practitioners and communities of interest-, a "navigation guide" is created that consolidates the different kinds of knowledge from local authorities, practitioners
- Main outcome: process innovation, knowledge/data, stakeholder integration, community empowerment.
Constraints:
- The knowledge of "navigating the system" to activate place projects on existing underused urban space is often tacit or in "silos": There is a lot of local knowledge on spatial agency, but it usually is somewhat fragmented and knowledge assets are contain
Uses of this resource:
Even though communities are active, their success in activating place projects with their local authority varies. There is a lack of shared information of process success and roadblocks, which previous communities have encountered. Therefore for new project ideas, each community is coming to the process without the benefit of knowledge of previous endeavours and without the benefit of a clear appropriate process they should follow.
Additional information:
Who should be involved?
FACILITATORY (PUBLIC) BODIES:
green spaces department; community development department; planning and development department; urban regeneration department
LOCAL TASK FORCE:
community group; investor; professional experts; local or regional authority
SUITABLE FOR:
underused urban site & building; brownfield development site; dense inner city
MAIN NECESSARY RESOURCES ARE:
expert knowledge; local knowledge; monetary investment; community trust; public institutional set-up; personnel time
Licence:
- Free, no licence
Development stage:
- Full, working product