Report Goteborg - Urbact

RESEAUX PILOTES
FAST TRACK
U R B A M E C O
URBAN PROJECT/METROPOLITAN AERA/DEPRIVED
AREAS/DEVELOPMENT ECO
Gothenburg
Support to city
Meeting the ULSG and LAP review
GOTHENBURG, Hammarkullen 16 February 2009
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INTRODUCTION
Intake visit: support to cities p.3
Purpose of the visit to Hammarkullen p.4
The city requests for the intake visit p. 4
1. INPUT p.5
1.1 Academic research and community work: the experience of the Comuniversity p.5
1.2 Design studio at the Master program Design for Sustainable Development. p.8
2. EXCHANGE p.10
2.1 Towards the LAP p.10
2.2 LAP &ULSG. Actual stage. p.12
2.3 Meeting Gothenburg ULSG for Hammarkullen p.13
4. RECOMMENDATION p.17
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INTRODUCTION
Intake visit: support to cities
The URBAMECO programme is structured around three types of exchange formats
whose scope is to maximize the capacity of learning and exchanging of knowledge
among the partner cities and Managing Authority. The format chosen by this network
consists of a)meetings in form of thematic sessions, b)101 cities exchange and c)
individual support to cities.
The latter is specifically dedicated to the cities which request specific support by the
expertise offered by the Lead expert and Thematic expert of URBAMECO.
As for initial agreement, each city in the network is committed in developing its own
Local Action Plan as final output of its participation in the programme. The
methodology to achieve the drafting of the LAP includes the creation of a Local
Support Group ( or the implementation of pre-existing participatory structures) which
gathers local key stakeholders in the city. The participants to the ULSG are selected
at the discretion of the municipality, which is responsible for the drafting of the LAP.
The ULSG should include a wide variety of actors directly and indirectly relevant to
the topic of local economic development and integrated approach in deprived urban
areas as chosen by URBAMECO.
In the case of URBAMECO, under the guidelines set by the Lead Partner city of
Grand Lyon, the support for cities is a specific workshop which sees the presence of
the Lead expert or/and thematic expert closely working with one partner city on
demand issues. The request for this kind of collaboration comes from the partner
city, which is willing to have guidance for instance, in the structure of the ULSG, its
facilitation and promotion, as well as in the drafting of the LAP , or in overcoming
specific barriers or issues encountered in the lifetime of the programme.
The support to city is figured out as a local workshop led to a definition of and a
response to main challenges faced by the member cities and regions as well as to
highlight key topics regarding the draftiing of LAP. The local workshop is usually
housed at the Municipality office, or at the meeting place of the ULSG. This allows to
have the chance to meet direclty some of the stakeholder in the city, participating in
the ULSG, visit the target area and understand more in depth the advancement of
the project.
The guidance provided is based on two main documents the framework of
URBAMECO appraoch established at the beginning of the network (cf. summary at
the first chapter of Report Costanta september 2008) and the scheme for the LAP
provided to the cities. The toolkit for LSG provided by the sercreatariat, in the case of
URBAMECO has been used as reference document to analyse what was already
practiced by the cities. Due to the interruption of activities in PHASE II, it has been
realtively possible to influence the structure and the work of ULSG in an advanced
stage.
In the case of URBAMECO 5 partner cities out of 9 benefitted of this kind of intake
visit.
The support to cities covered the following tasks:
• Additional assistance for the organization of the URBAMECO partnercity and
Managing authorities meeting
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• Assessment of the actual urban and regional strategy and possible
hindrances in the implementation on the LAP
• feedback on the draft of the LAP 1
• facilitation tools and experiences in managing a meeting of the local support
group
• whenever possible coincide the intake visit with the meeting of the ULSG
Purpose of the visit to Hammarkullen
The main purpose of the “Support to City” within URBAMECO for the case of
Gothenburg has been to analyse the advancements of the LAP and, to give
recommendations for its possible improvement and strategic advice for the
realisation of its aims.
In addition, a meeting with the Local Support Group of Hammarkullen have been
scheduled in order to update each other with the advancement of the action to be
undertaken for the successful implementation of the LAP. In this framework have
been checked the feasibility of the actions in relation to the funding opportunies
offered by the regionʼs Operational Programme as well as from other sources of
funding for integrated urban development projects.
It is the main purpose of this Report to report the kind of input collected from the
meeting of different stakeholders and to summarize the contribution for the
advancement of the LAP.
In particular, this report:
• Collects input from the initiatives happening in the area of Hammarkullen
such as the cooperation with the University, the activities of the Local NGOs,
th plan for the regeneration of the area and the Vision angered project
• Provides the summary of the strategic recommendations for the advancement
of the LAP mentioning the next steps to be undertaken towards the drafting of
the final plan.
• Makes proposals for ULSG and for the possible involvement of additional
stakeholders to keep the sustainability of the participatory process.
The city requests for the intake visit
The city of Hammarkullen has organized a strong architecture of ULSG and defined
the strategy as summarized in the previous chapter. Currently, the role and
responsibilities for the implementation of the LAP objectives have been established,
but the procedure for approval by all relevant authorities is ongoing. Moreover,
politically there is still a major effort to be achieved in order to have on board relevant
actors dealing with e.g. public transportation, supply chain, with a strong involvement
of the chamber of commerce.
In practical terms the intake site visit was requested:
• To check out the actual stage of ULSG and LAP in one day meeting, which
dedicated the morning to the workshop with the member of the steering ULSG
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Beside the support to cities, all the partner cities received specific support and feedback for the LAP.
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committee and the afternoon to revising the LAP draft together with the
members of the Local Action Team Eeva Bolin and Ulrika Evenas. A more
informal meeting in the afternoon with Susan Runsten representative of the
Municiplity of Gothenburg city referent for URBAMECO.
• To meet the participants and to present the approach of URBAMECO network
by URBACT-expert Laura Colini. Since most of the participants to the ULSG
group never had the chance to take part to any official meeting of
URBAMECO, the Local Action Team steering the work of the Lap, suggested
that it could be beneficial to have direct voice from the network at one of the
ULSG meeting.
• To listen to dialogues among the ULSG participants and eventually provide
feedback to the methodology employed.
• Support with the development of a strategy for filling the gaps or overcome
the barriers met in the course of the process.
1. INPUT
The intake visit which was dedicated to the above mentioned requests, allowed to
gather additional inputs and information regarding the activities and plans. Two
particular focuses regard the connection between the university and community of
Hammrkullen with the project comuniversity, with the department of Social Studies,
University of Gothenburg and other initiaves that involved architecture students in
studing the possible design of Hamarkullen main square.
The latter initiative, although is starting in autumn 2009 and It is not an action directly
connected to the LAP, but it is a sign of a growing interest for the new area, and it is
a unique opportunity for engaging architecture students in a creative design of the
core of this neighbourhood with the participation of the citizens.
1.1 ACADEMIC RESEARCH and COMMUNITY WORK: the experience of
HAMMARKULLEN
A networking university in Hammarkullen, orientated towards contemporary
events and rooted in the community
Lasse Fryk is an academic who has been engaged for a long time in the idea of
bringing the school to the neighborhood and viceversa, in order to enhance tha
capacity of enhancing situated knowledge and more qualitative research approach.
LAsse Fryck is a participant to the ULSG for Hammarkullen and a spokeperson for
the Comuniversity project included in the LAP.
What follows is a text drafted in Gothenburg, 25 November 2008 by Lasse Fryk and Bosse
Forsén, Assistant Professors, regarding the Comuniversity which is presented as strategic
input to the LAP.
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The Comuniversity – a collaborative project between the Lärjedalen district council (SDN) and
the University of Gothenburg – currently has its base in Hammarkullen. It began, historically,
as early as 1989, when some parts of the degree programme in social work were relocated
into the field, in Lärjedalen. This collaboration has been extended over the years, with more
and more aspects of the programme being held in Lärjedalen. The reciprocal exchanges
between the two parties has gradually intensified and deepened. Since 2003 Lärjedalen is the
home to a field-based teacher-training programme as well. This programme variant, unique in
Sweden (teacher training with a specialization in community pedagogy) has developed under
the aegis of the Comuniversity. The municipality has put facilities at our disposal and provided
some financing, and has facilitated a twenty-year period of joint development work in the
public sector in Lärjedalen, which has expanded hand in hand with the undergraduate
programmes described above.
Below, we describe the ideas and experience gained within the framework of the field-based
social work and teacher training programmes at the Comuniversity.
What has twenty years in Lärjedalen given us?
In a society characterized by accelerating change and increasing diversity, many aspects of
traditional university education appear too classroom-bound, too structured, and too sluggish
to be constructive, creative and flexible in the face of the challenges the social workers and
teachers of today and tomorrow, as well as university teachers, have to grapple with. The
experience we and others have gleaned from our field-based alternative is unequivocally very
positive. Students, internal and external assessors, and our users all state loud and clear that
the road map we are following is an extremely fruitful and enriching one for all parties
concerned.
Bringing separates together is one of our lodestars. Concretely, this has meant moving
from rooms to interstices, entering into mutually rewarding exchanges with the institutions in
the real world for which our students' educations are preparing them, and with the citizens for
whom these institutions are run. In preparation for future professional cooperation between
schools and the social services, students from the two programmes are brought together to
carry out joint, concrete projects in the field in Lärjedalen. This collaboration also enriches
both groups of students in anticipation of their professional roles. . Seeing the degree
programme as practical work experience is another motto that guides our work, and can
be described as bringing together theory and practice, ideas and action. We see it as valuable
for students, during their educational programmes, to use the ideas that are cornerstones of
the professions we are training them for. The active participation of all parties involved is a
key to being able to establish, together, the necessary diversity to be able to operate with a
wide repertoire of tools in a multifaceted world.
Our exchanges between the district and the university as a whole and, today, mainly between
Hammarkullen and the teacher training and social work programmes in the field, have a clear
win-win profile, For us, the district provides a broad arena for essential learning and for
enhancing our competence, at the same time as we can contribute concretely to community
development, by carrying out our own projects and fulfilling commissions from our
counterparts. The district, in turn, gains access to a wide range of potential resources,
primarily because the students participate actively in community activities in work done in the
public sector. Thus existing activities in the public sector get new input from Others, and new
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activities can be established simply because there is strength in numbers, and more
contributions means greater diversity.
The concrete objective of these educational programmes is to contribute to socially
sustainable development – for the individual (the citizen, student, professional worker, etc),
for the group/work team, for the organization/institution of which one is a part and,
whenever possible, for the community.
In a community like Hammarkullen, social development places high demands on the active,
democratic participation of individuals and groups in shaping and being shaped, on
competence, and in terms of being able to face new, unpredictable developments
constructively and creatively, and in terms of lifelong and life-wide socially sustainable
individual and collective learning. We consider our activities, together with those of all the
other parties who share in our overarching ideas, as a potentially hopeful contribution to
making the future more meaningful for all involved. We see ourselves as a spoke in a larger
community-based wheel. To our intense satisfaction we also see more and more parties
joining our cooperative endeavour, working together with us on the development of a fieldbased
Comuniversity.
Within the Academy, interest in activities rooted in the community is growing
Beyond the activities described above, a large number of research projects have been
conducted in the district (not least by Professor Ove Sernhede). Other individuals and groups
have also participated actively in recent years in concrete activities, as part of various working
groups in the district (Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Architecture,
University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation, which has an international Master
level programme) or expressed their interest in collaboration in the district (Gothenburg
University: Centre for cultural studies, Academy of Music and Drama, School of Design and
Applied Arts, Museum of World Culture, Museion, and others).
On the Hammarkullen side, there are also a large number of committed parties associated
with the public sector, the housing companies, various local associations, etc. There are
available office facilities at the central square, Hammarkulletorget, on the same premises as
the citizens' information office, the library, the culture centre, the Angered Folk High School,
and the open unit for social services and social pedagogy. There is tremendous potential in
terms of resources that could be developed through further cooperation among the various
parties already involved and between them and the community as a whole. Greater
collaboration reinforces the point of departure for:
- contributing to active development of exercising citizenship,
- developing constructive, creative learning environments,
- strengthening social and pedagogical entrepreneurship,
- participating actively in the construction of society,
- formulating one's own actions conceptually and in words.
With the active presence and commitment of students, teachers, and researchers in these
developmental efforts, it is also natural to document the growth of knowledge in various ways.
An evaluation concerning the quality of the degree programme in social work in
Lärjedalen carried out within the framework of The education Institute at Gothenburg
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university. The authors are Kajsa Ohrllander at the university of teaching in
Stockholm and Kerstin Borhage working at the Swedish Government department for
education.
Report in Swedish language
http://www.ufl.gu.se/digitalAssets/1148/1148666_Rapport200703.pdf
1.2 DESIGN STUDIO at the Master program Design for Sustainable Development.
In winter 2008-2009 a class of the Master program Sustainable Development Project Suburbs
Design and Future Challenge dedicated a series of design practices to Hammarullen in
collaboration with the Folketshuis and some of the local citizens. Participatory planning events
using techniques as planning for real, street events et al. worked as guidelines for the
students planning practices.
For further information check the online presentation of the classʼs outcomes.
The success of the initiative, created a second call for a winter semester seminar on
Hammarkullen for the master students in design for sustainable development. The call is
reported here, as this initiative may constitute a valuable future resources in the involvement
of students design for the plaza, in relation to the objectives defined by the LAP including the
re-design of Market place, the creation of University campus, and dynamization of the House
of People as meeting center in the main plaza as.
SUBURBS
Chalmers Architecture, Master program Sustainable Development
Project Suburbs Design
and future challenges
Byggnadsvård och restaurering 20082009
Architectural Conservation 20082009
Master Programme in Design for Sustainable Development (MPDSD)
http://www.student.chalmers.se/sp/program?program_id=605
Design & future challenges in Hammarkullen
is a design studio in the Master program Design for Sustainable Development. It
takes place in Hammarkullen. This design studio introduces the social dimensions of the
vision, focusing the specific conditions in mass‐housing suburbs of the 60s and 70s. Public
participation of
citizens is a central aspect, tools and methods for design and planning in collaboration with
citizens and other local stakeholders are used.
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Aim
The studio will give knowledge about the significance of the social dimension of
sustainable development and focusing urban development in suburban areas built in
the 1960s and 70s as part of the Swedish million programme.
Learning outcome
At the end of this studio the students will be prepared to work as professional
architects,
planners, designers, engineers, etcetera, in design, planning and reconstruction of
suburban areas from the million programme – linking social aspects to e.g.
environmental, technical, aesthetic, economic aspects of sustainable development
Equivalent learning objectives relate to
– the physical environment
is the construction of the million programme, i.e. the political background as well as
the actual physical planning and aesthetics results in form of infrastructure,
landscape design, building design, building construction and building materials.
– the social environment
is the people living in the suburb and the people working there or being active in
other ways. Concepts in the field of sociology e.g. urbanization, globalization,
governance, social exclusion, ethnicity, culture studies, segregation, security, safety;
– participative tools and methods
for design and planning in collaboration with citizens, employees and other local
actors
– linking social aspects to other aspects
to e.g. environmental, technical, aesthetic, economic aspects of sustainable
development
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2. EXCHANGE
2.1 Towards the LAP
The neighbourhood of Hammarkullen is located in a suburban area at the north part
of the city , 20 min away by Gothenborg center. Hammarkullen is part of the
Lärjedalen city district included in the larger district of Angered. Hammarkullen is not
one of the prioritized neighbourhood for the strategic plan and the Local Development
agreement of Gothenburg, but in order to support the integrated development of this
neighbourhood the City of Gotheborg has chosen Hammarkullen as target area for
Urbameco project. The neighbourhood once built as social response to lack of
housing in the 60ies and 70ies, became in the one of the symbol of urban decay.
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Hammarkullen as pictured by Jens Jenssen in the seventies
Possible potentials existing in the areas have been underestimated and the work of
the social workers , association of citizens, housing associations, NGos active in the
area offer a picture much more promising than one may imagine at first sight. The
livelihood of the services provided in the area in terms of cultural events, festivals,
health support and many others are a valuable and unique resource of this
neighbourhood.
In March 2007, was held a Future Workshop dealing with new perspectives for the
area with participants who live or work in the area. In parallel a Local Forum for
Health and Crime Prevention with about 20 members from different authorities deals
with crime prevention and safety in the area.
The participants in the Workshop defined problems in their area and tried to find out
how these problems could be inter-related. They were also asked to formulate
visions for the neighbourhoodʼs future and in particular for central shopping area and
main square - the market place Hammarkulletorget – and to think about ways to
reach their objectives 2 .
It is from the results of this workshop that the ULSG group for URBAMECO LAP
based its first roots, welcoming in the course of time the active voices of the
neighbourhood, while engaging different stakeholders active a city wide and regional
level.
As result of the activities of the ULSG the strategy developed for Hammarkullen
focused on strengthening the position of this neighborhood in the city region through
economic growth, development of the market areas towards an integrated
development of Hammarkullen.
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Cf. the baseline study 2008
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2.2 LAP & ULSG. ACTUAL STAGE
At the time of the intake visit the ULSG defined the aims of the LAP around 4 main
objectives:
New centre for Hammarkullen
1. REAL estate owner and market place
Market area: renovation and redesign the market area: involvement of local shop
keepers
Low energy consumption and environmental measures; Study for elements of
ecological modernization of housing
Organize a design competition for the new shopping area: involving the students of the
local university (cf Power point of the initial experience)
Make an architectural plan to refurbish the market building in the main square. Part of
it should be used as shops and office space while adapting the architecture to
welcome social and cultural activities. Organize co-financing for such reconstructions
and realize the next retail and office space for Hammarkullen
Get the company that is responsible for underground line, the one that owns the
building with the shops above the underground station as well as the shopkeepers,
involve the LSG
Central Square. Organize community-based planning process (according to the
participatory methods of different target groups [children, young people, elderly people,
women, etc.) towards public design with workshops for the central square including all
newly designed buildings, spaces, signs and furniture in public space etc.
2. FOLKETS HUS AS: THE LIVING HEART OF HAMMARKULLEN
Modernization of the Folkets Hus organizing a process with all users,
including elderly people for a relocation of their activities;
Make an architectural planning for reuse parts as shops and office space as
part of the new market area, while adapting the architecture to welcome
social and cultural activities in the building; Organize co-financing for such
reconstruction and realize the next retail and office space for
Hammarkullen.
3. UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. Integrating the planning for this proposal into the
above described processes of a new functional planning for the
FolketsHus and with the current planning for new housing
Hammarkullen–including student accommodations. Negotiation with the
company that owns most of the social housing.
Multiethnic second chance schools “where the worlds meet”
4. Hammarkullen - the centre of education
The Ulsg is structured with a steering group that includes stakeholders at local, urban
and regional level, and 4 thematic groups who are open to local citizens organized in
associations, commimttee, or group of interest for specific initiaves relevant to one or
more objectives of the LAP.
Working groups
1. Real estate owners and Market place: Ulrike
2. University campus Jan-ake
3. Living heart: Eeva
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4. Pre-schools: Leif Hartsner, District manager in Hammarkullen
2.3 Meeting Gothenburg ULSG for Hammarkullen
The Local Action team responsible for managing the Lap in the neighbourhood of
Hammarkullen, in the person of Eeva Bolin and Ulrika Evenas, organized a wellstructured
meeting with ad hoc preparation that allowed to welcome both the steering
group in the first part of the meeting as well as some representative of the Thematic
working group in the afternoon. The meeting took place at the Folket huis, House of
people located in the main square of Hammarkullen in to rounds: one dedicated to
the Steering group and the second to the thematic subgroup. Each meeting is
opened by a presentation of the Lead Expert summarizing the aims of URBAMECO
network and the stage of the work, since most of the participants of the ULSG never
had the chance to take part to the programme level activities.
What follows is the list of the stakeholders ( in blue the participants to this actual
meeting)
Steering group
Ulla-Carin Olsson Chief for city district Lärjedalen City district Lärjedalen
Tomas Olsson Chief for administration City district Lärjedalen
Christer Lindstrand Executive director Göteborgs lokaler
Ulrika Evenås Manager Göteborgs lokaler
Lizz Wiklund District manager North east Public housing company
Bengt-Axel Albertsson District manager NewSec
Leif Hartsner District chief Hammarkullen, City district Lärjedalen
Rolf Bergman Chief for elderly care City district Lärjedalen
Eeva Bolin Headmaster Hammarkullen City district Lärjedalen
Gunnel Jonsson Chief for planning Planning and building office
Jan-Åke Ryberg Vision Angered City district Lärjedalen och
Gunnared
Summary of the topics discussed with the Steering group
The 23 of January meeting set up the basis for the ACTION PLAN for
Hammarkullen as presented in Nea Ionia, at the trans-national URBAMECO
meeting organized around the 4 working group:
1. Real estate owners and Market place.
2. Attractive Folket Huis
3. Center for innovative knowledge development:
4. School and innovative learning:
Main key issues related to the four thematic groups:
1. New center: no meeting so far for this topic, as nobody showed any
interest in participating. A new stakeholder analysis should be re-
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launched. There is a need to have political pressure in involving the
Public transport authority which is part of the municipality. Moreover
the new use of the commercial centre has not been discussed: there is
no answer from the liquidator, nor from the potential investors such as
Netto supermarket chains. A local forum with citizens was held
concerning the future of the area, and a survey concerning the
shopping areas has been conducted with the inhabitants. Nevertheless
“ What do we do with the shopping center?” Is still an open questions
for hosting a community service, library or others…
2. Make a strategy for involving more people. Since the Folket Huis is
well established there is a need to engage into private talk to
encourage people to participate.
3. A meeting for this topic has been schedule for the near future with the
university, folkets huis, and local politicians.
4. There is an agreement with tenements together with the university, a
floor is empty in folkets huis, and should be used to host the school.
There is a need of circa 400 sqm and three floor.
Medical center
An additional topic regards the local hospital. There is a discussion with
the medical health committee concerning the allocation of existing
premises. The Localization of the hospital and medical center for elderly
has been discussed yet and decisions are also depending on the new
election in 2010.
City planning authority
The planning authority drafted a plan for the redevelopment of the
neighbourhood of Hammarkullen which heavily invest in the provision of
new housing, (low impact) and new infrastructures.
Time agenda for the Urban plan will see a discussion march/april at the
city planning authority , and the definite approval will met before or after
the summer.
Safety
The project “SAFETY and beautiful city” started 6-7 years ago. The
Municipality of Gothenburg employed a consultant who looked at the
quality of roads, quality of walks and pathways and good lighting, mapping
the whole area of Hammarkullen. These info should be valued and the
footpath should be names so to assume relevance in the mobility within
the neighbourhood.
Relation with MAs
There is an ongoing debate for including the Hammarkullen LAP in Jessica
which will start working from 1.1. 2010. Funding
“There are 50 mil available from structural fund and we are starting the
specific holding fund, with politicians from Angered, and member of local
city council”.
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Summary of the topics discussed with the Thematic group
Ajanovic Samira Square leader Göteborgs lokaler
Arcini Cecilia deaconess Church of Sweden
Berg Ulla Developer Public housing company
Anjum Tahira Chairman Stödnätet, association
Johansson Gunnel Chairman Hammarkullen PRO-association
Magnusson Magita Preschool teacher Open preschool
Parath Tony Carnival planning carnival committee
Marberg Maj-Britt Cashier Hammarkullen PRO-association
Wennergren Kerstin Manager Peoples House association
Wessner Jacob Manager Public housing company
Johan Berg Youth worker Mixgården
Lina Renholm Social pedagogue Mixgården
Trapp Elisabeth Dental hygienist National dental service
Lasse Fryk University lecturer Kommuniversitet
All the people participating to the meeting received the working materials
from the last meeting.
This actual meeting is supposed to verify the actions and objectives set by
the draft LAP in accordance with the existing projects and initiatives taking
place in the target area. The neighbourhood of Hammarkullen is rich on
local initiatives with a cultural and social character and the scope of the
LAP is to put them in a network maximizing their impacts at local and at
city level. People said “It is good to see what is already happening in the
area, and it is do much!”.
Therefore, the meeting is dedicated to mapping out the different realities
such as:
• Church of Sweden
• Folkets huis association,
• The representatives from Angered centrum and in particular the
Angered school, new enterprise center and business in the area.
• The recreation center, and the breakdancers meeting who need to
find a venue that is large enough to host the event of Breakdance
competition that involves dance group from all Europe.
Actions considered
PLATFORM
• A platform to coordinate the activities and project involving local
inhabitants already existing. “Everyone has new ideas. It is important to
gather than in a group, in a funnel and get them unified.
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• The involvement of representatives from Higher education for arts and
music in the 6 th floor in the building to be connected with the 7-8
departments of university, able to support the cultural events projects.
The municipality is also interested in this kind of initiatives.
• Church of Sweden seeks more cooperation with other churches to
create a “work team”. “We may offer free premises for different
migrants population activities”.
VALUE RESOURCES
• Map the area where people are already meeting. Some public spaces
are damaged (e.g. B&Q). A Cooperation project for playground,
amelioration of parking space could be launched.
• Propose to the Steering committee a Logo for Hammarkullen, which
could label the variety of the initiatives offered in the area, since there
is a steady peopleʼs commitment for the last 40 years.
CULTURE AND EDUCATION
• Lectures for kids, cinema opened in March, promotion of exhibitions.
• Opening up school to work with local associations, which work also
with youth leaders. Today there are circa 50 associations in
Hammarkullen.
• Enhance University education and community work; professionalism
attitude at university level.
• It is important to think strategically, developing this type of situated
professionalism with the schools and University investing also in
creative industry, conferences, and events to get known Hammarkullen
as a dynamic area. E.g. The participants mentioned a “flow strategy of
the triangle” where the cooperation among the parts should be in
relationship regarding the creation of a LAP:
Civil society
Private sector
Public Institutions
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STRATEGY neighbourhood and district level
• Strategy long term at district level including small initiatives. For
instance there should be a strong linkage with the programme
Vision in Angered. In mid April there will be in Angered a meeting
with local shop keepers and the entrepreneurs who are interested.
A participation from Hammarkullen can be beneficial. The Vision
Angered is foreseen for year 2020, for a district supposed to reach
70000 inhabitants. Goteborg needs apartments, since families are
growing and expansion covers the area around the city centre with
very big families living in tiny flats. The idea is to propose new flats
for a “housing career”: a familiy of e.g. two members rents a tiny flat
and if the family grows there will be a new flat available in the same
area more appropriate to the new familyʼs needs. The vision include
new services and facilities to start up new businesses in the areas,
together with training and ad hoc support. Vision Angered works
only if politicians involved are collectively sharing the commitment
for supporting the project. “In our case we do not base our plan on
majorities at government level, since with new election the majority
can change and the project may fall down. Sweden has a large
part of self-determination at municipal level and municipalities also
collect taxes.
•
4. RECOMMENDATIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
• URBAMECO TIMEPLAN. The LE reminds the time agenda of
URBAMECO, and push the agenda to agree on a strategy for a
LAP.
• STAKEHOLDERS ANALYSIS & cooperation.
o If politically is hard to meet a decision, some efforts should
be devoted to the collaboration with the Municipality who is
encouraging the URBAMECO project and the managing
authority for having on board relevant stakeholders to the
themes selected in the working groups. A review of the
stakeholderʼs analysis could improve the results.
o Take advantage of any cooperation from the Vision Angered
as proposed during the workshop to profit from the aims on
developing local business and employment measures in
Angered district.
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o Involve more Local politicians in the activities of the Steering
ULSg and use the connection with the EU project through
Urbameco as an opportunity for moving forward the plan.
o
• RELATION TO URBAMECO.
o Profit from Bilateral exchange with other URBAMECO
partner cities in sharing experiences regarding outreach
organizing
• LAP.
o The aim of the LAP is to invest in the development of Local
economy, in an integrative approach. The risk in this case is
to have a strong presence of the social sectors but a limited
involvement at project level of economic key actors. The
market research done for the area is limited, and in general
the ULSG lacks of stronger connections with economic and
business organizations.
o The platform for enhancing the existing projects is an
interesting step, also considering the possible exploitation of
media such as local radio for the young population and
internet in the neighbourhood (broadband neighbourhoodsʼ
project) for the social networking. The production of a logo
presenting Hammarkullen as a place for culture and
professionalism will support the creation of a new
neighbourhood image not necessarily connected to a
stigmatization of the area. Nevertheless the investment in
coordinating these action with stakeholders at regional level,
as well as the professional chamber of commerce, the school
for SME start ups in Angered should be stressed, in order to
assure the feasibility and the sustainability of some of the
above mentioned initiatives.
o 1o1 coaching with the LE based on the scheme for drafting
the LAP distributed to the all the partner cities at the meeting
of Nea Ionia.
o CITY PLANNING. One thing important to discuss at the
meeting with ULSG is avoid to get the LAP propose a parallel
work to the plan proposed by City planning authority.
o SAFETY. the info on programmes already launched in the
area should be valued. IN the case of the footpath a
campaign for naming the existing one should give relevance
to the mobility facilities within the neighbourhood.
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Scheme used for the evaluation of the actions in the Hammarkullen LAP-
Goal 1
Secondary
objektives
Secondary
objektives
Social effect
human/gender
Social effect
human/gender
Economical
effects
Economical
effects
Environmental
effects
.
Environmental
effects
Activities
Activities
Responsible
Responsible
Secondary
objektives
Social effect
human/gender
Economical
effects
Environmental
effects
Activities
Responsible
Secondary
objektives
Secondary
objektives
Existing resources
Social/human/gender Economical Real estate/land (patrimony?)
.
Social/human/gender Economical Real estate/land
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Secondary
objektives
Social/human/gender Economical Real estate/land
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Goal 1 Evaluation Just now 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Expected economical results
Economical result in real
Expected social results
Social result in real
Expected environmental
results
Environmental result in real
Expected results in gender
perspective
Result in gender perspective
in real
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