Calling Dreamers & Doers!
2050 Civic Imagination Living Lab
AN OPEN WORKSHOP:
An open creative thinking workshop to those who want to co-create, learn from others, tell stories (write, draw, story-board, play, design, build,…). We aim at co-designing a transmedia communication campaign for BG2050 with an international community of Dreamers & Doers.
– Online Meetings with renowned mentors will take place at specific times at the event
– Read/Download the Press Communiqué (regularly updated): https://bit.ly/3ydhenx
– Slide Deck: deck of program slides – June 2024
WHERE?
WKU’s Center for Research and Development (CRD), 2413 Nashville Road, Bowling Green, KY 42101
Main entrance—then go down the Rabbit Hole
Do you have anything else to share? Email for Civic Imagination: samfordky@gmail.com
WHEN?
June, Friday 14th & Saturday 15th from 9am to 7pm
– 9:00 am: Main introduction and announcements (both days)
This is an open workshop—come when you can. Updates & introductions will occur at the event, so please connect with the facilitators immediately upon arrival. Registration is optional, but appreciated: https://forms.gle/b1NhSGGZJHwZsPEc9
WHY?
The backstory: In 2023 the WKU Innovation Campus HQ was made home to a “Future of Bowling Green and Warren County” Civic Imagination workshop, hosted by Warren County Judge-Executive Doug Gorman and organized by the Suspenders of Disbelief team. Warren County is projected to grow extensively in the next 25 years as the fastest-growing MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) in Kentucky, and the county held the event to discuss what leaders across various pillars of the community want to see for the future of the area.
Recently, the BG2050 initiative was launched, bringing advisory teams together in eight key pillar areas to contribute to long-term vision and planning for the area. Inspired by this work, several members of the WKU Innovation Campus have organized a series of their own events to contribute to this BG2050 conversation.
– See our Hackathon LINK here
– More information on the Civic Imagination Project
– More background on the project on pp.49-51 of the Winter 2024 WKU Spirit magazine
RESOURCES
“Before change comes imagination
Henry Jenkins, 2016
