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| 'The Building Futures Game' Building Futures, the Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) think tank with CABE and architectural practice The AOC, launched the 'The Building Futures Game' at an event in Daventry, Northamptonshire. The Building Futures Game presents an accessible and innovative new approach to tackling the big issues involved in town planning and development. Essentially, The Building Futures Game is a form of scenario planning. Participants work through a lively and interactive process of 'playing out' a range of possible futures, generating a number of possible resolutions. Working through this process, participants are given a chance to really get to grips with the fundamental issues affecting town planning in their towns and cities The event features a live game playing exercise based on a real proposed retail scheme for Daventry by Henry Boot developers and MCA architects with the West Northants Development Corporation (WNDC). The proposals will impact greatly on the town centre area and form part of a wider strategy for the town's regeneration and future growth. The Building Futures Game will give stakeholders in this scheme the opportunity to discuss their aspirations for the proposal area in a new and alternative way. The process allows participants to follow through the stages of planning and development with their scenarios in a realistic way, abiding by certain rules and time limits within a structured framework. The Building Futures Game has been created to be as true to life as possible, and also features a series of 'unexpected event' cards, which pose challenges to the decision making process. The Building Futures Game has already been trialled by councils in Derbyshire, Swindon and Newcastle, whose sessions were received very successfully; one council was able to identify unresolved issues about aspirations for the city and it opened up vast areas of opportunity for another. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |