[Title Page]
Contents
WHY THIS BOOK? 9
Introduction : Seoul as a people-powered city / Geoff Mulgan 10
Sectoin 1. Colse to the citizen 21
A new idea of proximity / Ezio Manzini 22
Can we look at a city of 10 million people and see it as a tangle of neighbourhood communities? 25
Reaching Out community Service Centres(ROCS Centres) 25
A broader trend 28
Seoul's 'urban villages' 31
In conclusion 31
Innovating at many scales : political imagination meets sociaal ingenuity in Seoul / Gabriella Gómez-Mont 32
CASE STUDY : Reaching Out Community Service Centre(찾동) 44
Background 46
How does it work? 47
Scaling 50
Impact 51
CASE STUDY : Seongdaegol Energy Independent Village(성대골 에너지 자립마을) 52
How the movement grew 54
SMG's energy policies 55
Seongdaegol's energy transition experiments 56
Sectoin 2. Growing relationships with empathy 61
Neighbourhoods : where top down meets bottom up / Peter Ramsden 62
Context 65
Innovating and rebuilding relationships via citizens' emopwerment and collaborative olcal govermance / Ada Wong 70
Gusan Library - a collaborative empowerment approach 75
Local Labs as an intermediary platform 76
CASE STUDY : Building empowerment at a local level across three terms 80
Background 81
Local empowerment across three terms 82
Sectoin 3. Empowering the people 87
Seoul as a Smart City / Geoff Mulgan 88
Solving problems with data and open data 91
Using testbeds 91
Digital skills for citizens and civil society 92
Innovation and movements 92
Platforms for engagement 96
What kind of society? 96
CASE STUDY : Democracy Seoul, a platform for digital democracy(민주주의 서울) 98
Bcakground 100
How does it work? 100
Impact and lessons learnt 104
Sectoin 4. Animating spaces 107
Creatiing Dynamic spaces in the city for citizen life to flourish / Louise Pulford 108
1. Sharing space with citizens 111
2. Using space as a catalyst for innovation 112
3. Rethinking the purpose of space - Seoul as a 'Human Scale City' 115
CASE STUDY : The Gyeongui Line Commons(경의선 공유지) 120
Background 122
the making of the commons 124
Lessons learnt 126
CASE STUDY : Cheongchun Building(청춘빌딩) 128
Youth policy context 132
How the Cheongchun Building began 133
Impact 136
Sectoin 5. Thinking big and seeling small 139
Learning walks : can grassroots innovations enirich the urban crucible of creativity? / Anil Gupta 140
Shodhyatras 145
Childen creativity workshops : next we showed how children can be animators of positive change 146
Frugal innovation and engagement with young people 146
Food can be great connector 146
Treditional Knowledge 149
The urban commons and Seoul 149
CASE STUDY : Mobile Mayor's Office(현장시장실) 152
Background 153
How did it work? 154
Challenges 156
Impact 156
Conclusion : The next generation of urban social innovation 158
How SIX can help 161
advice and support on collaboration 161
Curating knowledge and insights 161
Leaning exchange 161
Contridutors 164
Copyright 166
[Back Cover] 168