@MetroMayorSteve @AndyBurnhamGM @MayorofGM @LiamThorpECHO @hannahITV @AndyBounds @helenpidd @TheWomensOrg @NP_Partnership @KenSkatesMS @LabourNorthWest 1/First of all the crisis has accelerated change and return to 'normal' is not an option... We are about to enter a superrecession/depression and the ways out (consumption of crap we don't need etc) won't work and will impact on other things like climate change... We need to....
@MetroMayorSteve @AndyBurnhamGM @MayorofGM @LiamThorpECHO @hannahITV @AndyBounds @helenpidd @TheWomensOrg @NP_Partnership @KenSkatesMS @LabourNorthWest 2/...embrace data +see the city as a transparent complex system of visible/invisible infrastructures and understand challenges (probs/opportunities) and impact of decision-making accross each of these infrastructures cross scale in short medium longterm (beyond election cycles)
@MetroMayorSteve @AndyBurnhamGM @MayorofGM @LiamThorpECHO @hannahITV @AndyBounds @helenpidd @TheWomensOrg @NP_Partnership @KenSkatesMS @LabourNorthWest 3/ extrapolate scenarios and test decissions so have evidence bases to base policy on, stop asking the same people Q's and expecting new answers and critically embrace complexity (resilience) rather than efficiency (risk)... We need systemic change facilitated from the top for...
@MetroMayorSteve @AndyBurnhamGM @MayorofGM @LiamThorpECHO @hannahITV @AndyBounds @helenpidd @TheWomensOrg @NP_Partnership @KenSkatesMS @LabourNorthWest 4/ emergence from the bottom..... There is opportunity to truly build a multicity/ polycentric region .... But need to understand a majority of the 'talent' exists in-between in the dispersed city regions in and around Cheshire Lancs Merseyside etc.. what does a future.....
@MetroMayorSteve @AndyBurnhamGM @MayorofGM @LiamThorpECHO @hannahITV @AndyBounds @helenpidd @TheWomensOrg @NP_Partnership @KenSkatesMS @LabourNorthWest 5/..dispersed workforce mean in terms of infrastructure etc what happens to cities?... Wrote this rather quickly + lots other ideas.. but in short we need systemic change + you need to involve new thinkers into the arena of local/city/regional governance...not the usual suspects.
