Research archive for "Your Arms!" Nurope presentation

Notes made prior to presentation:

At present we are working on a presentation that will be based on the following structure

- a presentation of the research methods and findings from the Unidee leg of the Your Arms! project with focus on the parallels in social development, and the feedback we got from the Biellese.

- a brief overview of the current situations in Leeds and Bradford (and they're 'post-industrial' scenarios). We will talk about what is good and bad about each town and their differences from an anecdotal perspective. We hope to include interviews with Yorkshire locals to aid this.

- an overview of the future plans for Leeds and Bradford. This will include regeneration plans and economic strategies from the councils. We will also refer to the Yorkshire area as a whole. Again we hope to include interviews with local officials and residents.

- reference to the wider context in which these issues exist - ie global economic policies and issues of work, (Rifkin's End of Work, Bauwen's P2P and Human Evolution) and potential post industrial futures (Green Economies, empowering the Voluntary Sector). We hope to have interviews with people in Bradford and Leeds that may help illustrate practical implications of these ideas such as Oblong resource centre in Leeds and Bradford's 'Participatory Event'.

- the role of art projects to aid transitions in regeneration including artworks programme in Glasgow and the wider transition to a new mode of production (Your Arms!?). How will setting up a dialogue between global industrialised and post-industrial communities benefit those involved and what strategies should we employ to create this dialogue?

Over the next few weeks we intend to use this blog as an archive for the various research material we come across.

LIST OF LINKS

Yorkshire initiatives

Leeds Initiative

Culture Leeds

Construction Leeds

Bradford vision

Bradford 2020 Initiative

Bradford Vision video

Bradford 'Participatory Event' Documentary

Yorkshire Forward

Yorkshire Futures

Yorkshire Regional Economic Strategy


UK initiatives

Dept of Culture

Scarman Trust

Economic/Work Issues and Solutions

Oblong Resource Centre Leeds

Artworks Creative Community Bradford Arts projects

Brazilian Unemployment Insurance paper

short article about pro's for a Universal Wage

Basic Income Earth Network

P2P and Human Evolution essay

Jeremy Rifkin (author of The End of Work) website

The notes for the presentation given by Andy and Yvonne can be downloaded from here