{"id":86,"date":"2016-10-26T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T09:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/?p=86"},"modified":"2017-12-13T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T15:02:19","slug":"building-a-new-city-with-newcastle-city-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/building-a-new-city-with-newcastle-city-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a new city with Newcastle City Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"
What will Newcastle and Seven Stories look like in 2065?<\/h5>\n

This October, Newcastle City Futures<\/a> took over Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books<\/a> for a weekend of Big Draw Festival<\/a> activities which encouraged children and families to design and build their future city\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over 500\u00a0people visited\u00a0Seven Stories over the course of our Big Draw weekend. 2016’s STEAM Powered Big Draw Festival<\/a> aims to inspire\u00a0illustrators everywhere to explore\u00a0creative innovation, enterprise, digital technologies and the arts through drawing.<\/p>\n

This seemed like\u00a0a perfect theme for Seven Stories to\u00a0connect with the Newcastle City Futures Urban Living Partnership<\/a>, a\u00a0project led by Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones<\/a> at Newcastle University<\/a>.\u00a0Newcastle City Futures\u00a0aims to get people and organisations\u00a0in Newcastle Gateshead talking and thinking about the future needs of the city, and working together to foster innovation.<\/p>\n

Now,\u00a0I think the views\u00a0of the\u00a0children and families visiting Seven Stories\u00a0are\u00a0pretty important here. After all, they’re the ones who’ll be living and working in\u00a0Newcastle in fifty years’ time!<\/p>\n

So what will Newcastle and Seven Stories look like in 2065? Here’s what Seven Stories’ visitors think…<\/p>\n

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Building Newcastle Gateshead<\/h5>\n
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Newcastle Gateshead in 2065. Image: Newcastle University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the course of the weekend, children and families added to our large map of Newcastle and Gateshead to create their vision of Newcastle in 2065.<\/p>\n

And their creativity was amazing! Visitors built homes, cultural, sports and science\u00a0venues, businesses, hotels,\u00a0transport systems, power stations and\u00a0several bridges.\u00a0In fact, the children organically\u00a0created pretty much everything you’d need in a future city.<\/p>\n

I was pleased to see they thought the Angel of the North would still be there, and Seven Stories too!<\/p>\n

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The house of the future…?<\/h5>\n
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The house of the future. Image: Newcastle University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Children drew on (and played in!) our large 3D house of the future. What does this tell us? Perhaps that houses in the future will be more colourful and\u00a0allow for personalisation. We’ll continue to build in\u00a0green technologies, and graffiti won’t be going away any time soon…!<\/p>\n

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The streets of 2065<\/h5>\n
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Designing a new Northumberland Street. Image: Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr Emine Thompson<\/a> and students from Northumbria University<\/a> came in to run a ‘Your City, You Design It!’ workshop. We looked at the streets of Newcastle in 3D and then participants designed a new Northumberland Street using SketchUp<\/a>. It’s going to look pretty different in 2065…<\/p>\n

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A big jigsaw for the Big Draw<\/h5>\n
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We drew on RFID enabled wooden jigsaw pieces and recorded messages about the future of the city. Image: Newcastle University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Zander Wilson<\/a> of Open Lab at Newcastle University provided a fun jigsaw activity. The children coloured in wooden RFID enabled jigsaw pieces, before recording a message about their hopes for the future of the city. Zander will be combining these to make a digital jigsaw – I’m excited to see the finished result!<\/p>\n

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The future of Seven Stories<\/h5>\n
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A new plan for Seven Stories. Image: Newcastle University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our last two activities of the weekend were all about planning the future of Seven Stories. Throughout the weekend, children could draw a new blueprint for our galleries, and Teresa Strachan<\/a> and the YES Planning students<\/a> at Newcastle University came to deliver a drop-in workshop all about urban planning. Here’s a plan one of the children came up with!<\/p>\n

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The children\u00a0came up with so many interesting ideas\u00a0about what Newcastle Gateshead will be like in 2065 – I’m looking forward to seeing what changes the future holds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What will Newcastle and Seven Stories look like in 2065? This October, Newcastle City Futures took over Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books for a weekend of Big Draw Festival activities which encouraged children and families to design and build their future city\u2026 Over 500\u00a0people visited\u00a0Seven Stories over the course of our Big … Continue reading “Building a new city with Newcastle City Futures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6222,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20,18],"tags":[29,6,4,7,17,28,30],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-research","category-students","tag-digital","tag-events","tag-partnership","tag-research","tag-seven-stories","tag-students","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}