Our Dream City - Initial Activities

Our Dream City is a campaign designed by StoryCycle that focuses on empowering local youth and communities to take active part in designing and making their places vibrant by using technology. The campaign focuses enabling instigators with digital tools, arts and a platform to engage their own community as well as civic processes. Together with the British Council, StoryCycle will conduct a four-day Map-Up camp. The primary objective of this activity is to expose participants to the process of gathering, curating and disseminating data through free digital tools. Additionally, conversations around urban planning and design and how modern technology may help create more inclusive communities will be discussed. 

The final activity of the campaign will include again a 4-day camp focused this time on storytelling. Based on the content generated from the mapping process, each participant will be supported to create their own presentations based on data/information collected in the prior activities. Multiple stories will be collected through the engagement of each participant in and around the locality to gather as many perspectives to feed into the ‘Dream city’ concept. Stories will be collected in audio-visual form via Mobile device.