ACKNOWLEDGE
the vital role that City Makers play in sparking social innovation. They are taking up initiatives that create innovative, resilient, inclusive, economically flourishing, and inspiring neighbourhoods.
CO-CREATE THE CITY
with a multiplicity of stakeholders: City Makers and social innovators, businesses, civil society organisations, knowledge institutions, andpublic authorities.
CREATE A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
that allows for the stakeholders in the Quintuple Helix to contribute according to competences and fitting roles - being careful not to confuse citizen participation for consultation or pseudo-politics.
EXPERIMENT
as a default for city-making. Allow for and support initiatives that emerge out of the efforts of City Makers, secure the translation into knowledge and know-how and transmit this to new governance models and more participatory and co-creative processes.
SHIFT FOCUS
from best practice to best process and recognise the contextual differences from which initiatives emerge. Be cautious with upscaling and replication, but curious to learn and implement lessons learned. Allow for diversity in many ways.
INCLUDE EVERYONE
Allow for a reinterpretation and redesign of regulatory frameworks for the protection of the common good, such as the principle of equality, along lines of community, diversity and inclusion rather than individual freedom and uniformity. Allowing initiatives to make a difference, but calling upon the responsibility of the initiators to be open and inclusive.
POOL AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO UNDERUSED RESOURCES in terms of physical buildings, natural resources and energy, public space, and economic and social capital.
OPEN UP AND GIVE ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND DATA as prerequisites for changing processes of decisionmaking, budgeting and governance.
PROVIDE ACCESS TO FINANCE
public procurement procedures and supporting networks for alternative and community financing.
FACILITATE LOCAL AND INTERLOCAL LEARNING NETWORKS and on- and offline platforms where knowhow and practices are exchanged and co-creation can be experimented with.
ASSESS IMPACT IN AN INTEGRATED MANNER by taking into account multiple value schemes where economic, social, environmental, societal and cultural value can be carefully balanced.
LEARN IN PRACTICE
Dare to question existing allocation of roles and interests and allow for the flexibility to change. Adapt the rules where sets of regulations no longer fit current needs and challenges, rethink legal forms and desirable scale.
CONNECT TO CITY MAKERS’ INITIATIVES and cooperate in prioritising and developing policy and political agendas and use subsidiarity as a leading principle in decision making.
DARE TO PRIORITISE
and diverge on the basis
of added societal value.
REDESIGN DEMOCRACY
to allow for more direct,inclusive and tailor-made decision-making and acommons-based public domain.
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