Bristol 2050 is an attempt to use a participatory process, through a series of o…
Bristol 2050 is an attempt to use a participatory process, through a series of open public meetings, to plan a sustainable and fair future for our cities inhabitants.
We hope that by looking forward 40 years we can provide a platform for the people of Bristol to come up with some interesting ideas about how we want our city and society to be organised.
* Can we come up with a local system of food production and distribution that is fair?
* Can we build a local transport system that will survive peak oil?
* Can we build a local energy system that will sustain us?
* Can we come up with a local system of exchanging goods that is fair?
* Do we need growth to do these things? Will we need London to govern us?
If we as a city have some coherence about what we would like the future to be like, then the steps to get there will become clearer to everyone.
We will then clearly see what ACTION we need to take today, to move us to where we want to be.
The project now has a facebook page (below) please like it if you are interested in the process.
Bristol 2050
Bristol 2050 is an attempt to use a partipatory process, through a series of open public meetings, to plan a sustainable and fair future for our cities inhabitants. Neither the electoral cycle or the product planning horizon are far enough away to allow us to be utopian, to hope for better futures. There is very little thinking about the medium and long term. The people’s 2050 will try to inhabit this vacuum. It will not be a top-down document or plan that anyone tries to rigidly enforce, it will not be in that sense “The Plan”. It will simply be a conversation that develops, spawning hundreds of little plans, counter plans and, crucially, actions.