The Bristol Urban Area Diagnostics Pilot

作为2015年欧洲绿色之都和洛克菲勒100强城市之一，布里斯托尔向自己提出了挑战，要在2065年之前转型为一个公民通过共同努力创造福祉来“繁荣”的地方，并公平和可持续地实现这一目标。布里斯托尔市区可以合法地声称自己是这种城市转型的先锋，但其发展道路的特点仍然是悖论，如果要持续朝着令人向往的目标前进，就需要应对一些严峻的现实，挑战“一切照旧”的心态。这项提议解决了一个根本问题：是什么阻止布里斯托尔弥合其当前状况与该市各种愿景和抱负中所概括的理想未来之间的差距？我们已经建立了合作伙伴关系，重点是毗邻的布里斯托尔市和南格洛斯特郡市区。我们已经获得了布里斯托尔绿色资本伙伴关系和布里斯托尔健康伙伴两个地方当局、LEP、当地商界、公民团体和来自两所大学的学者的全力支持，并做出了切实的支持承诺。通过伙伴关系以及真正的跨学科和跨部门合作来消除孤岛，是我们方法的核心，因此两所大学承诺以三分制与外部合作伙伴平等分享财政资源。我们能够广泛利用该项目的关键优势，利用国际领先的研究资产，包括：《布里斯托尔是开放的》、由FP7资助的高效能源规划系统思维(STARE)、地平线2020复制项目、GB 350万EPSRC/ESRC国际基础设施未来中心(ICIF)正在进行的工作，以及共同制作和共同设计的研究，如AHRC/ESRC互联社区和数字经济资助的项目，包括反应中心、有形记忆和生产力利润率。我们还可以访问大量非常有价值的数据源，包括2015年布里斯托尔状况报告、布里斯托尔的生活质量调查，以及自20世纪90年代以来跟踪调查当地14,500个家庭健康状况的雅芳亲子纵向研究。我们打算建立在ICIF认知模型方法的基础上，该方法确定了挑战已有心理模型的重要性，因为这些模型巩固了“一切照旧”的思维模式。核心是共同创造和共同制作，并承认公民的行为和行动对于实现预期的社会成果至关重要，如福祉、平等、健康、学习和碳中和。该工作方案综合了现有的特定领域的诊断方法和工具，以创建一个新的综合诊断框架。我们坚信，除非制定一个综合框架，将多个观点结合在一起，否则对城市挑战的诊断仍将是支离破碎的，理解可能会发生冲突。我们将在这个试点项目中应用这个框架来诊断四个“挑战主题”的复杂问题：机动性和可访问性、健康和幸福、平等和包容以及“碳中和”城市。我们已经任命了都是诊断的“最终用户”的“主题领导者”，确保调查过程是跨部门的、跨学科的、参与性的，并以真实世界的背景和应用为基础。该项目的遗产将是三方面的：第一，在应对城市挑战所需的诊断框架和方法方面的创新；第二，它在布里斯托尔市区的应用和由此产生的诊断综合了四个挑战主题；最后，形成了一支跨部门城市领导人的雏形，有能力应用综合诊断，并挑战主流的“一切照常”的方法。

As European Green Capital 2015 and one of the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities, Bristol has challenged itself to transform by 2065 into a place where citizens 'flourish' by working together to create wellbeing, and achieve this equitably and sustainably. The Bristol Urban Area can legitimately claim to be in the vanguard of such urban transformation, and yet its development pathway remains characterised by paradox, and the need to deal with some stark realities and to challenge a 'business-as-usual' mind-set if progress towards aspirational goals is to be sustained. This proposal addresses a fundamental issue: what is stopping Bristol from bridging the gap between its current situation and the desired future as encapsulated in the City's various visions and aspirations? We have forged a partnership focused on the contiguous City of Bristol and South Gloucestershire urban area. We have secured the full backing of the two local authorities, Bristol Green Capital Partnership and Bristol Health Partners, the LEP, the local business community, citizen groups, and academics from across both Universities, with tangible commitments of support. Dissolving siloes through partnership, and a genuine interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration, is core to our approach, and hence both Universities have committed to share equally the financial resources with external partners in a three-way split.It is a key strength of this project that we are able to leverage extensively on internationally leading research assets, including: 'Bristol is Open', the FP7-funded Systems Thinking for Efficient Energy Planning (STEEP), the Horizon 2020 REPLICATE project, ongoing work at the £3.5m EPSRC/ESRC International Centre for Infrastructure Futures (ICIF) and co-produced and co-designed research such as the AHRC/ESRC Connected Communities and Digital Economy funded projects including REACT Hub, Tangible Memories and Productive Margins. We also have access to a wealth of highly valuable data sources including the 2015 State of Bristol Report, Bristol's Quality of Life Survey, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents & Children that has followed the health of 14,500 local families since the 1990s. We intend to build on the ICIF cognitive modelling approach which identifies the importance of challenging established mental models since these entrench a 'business-as-usual' mind-set. At the heart is co-creation and co-production, and an acknowledgement that citizen behaviour and action are essential to the delivery of desired societal outcomes such as wellbeing, equality, health, learning, and carbon neutrality. The work programme synthesises existing domain-specific diagnostic methodologies and tools to create a novel Integrated Diagnostics Framework. We believe strongly that unless an integrating framework is developed to bring together multiple viewpoints, the diagnosis of urban challenges will remain fragmented and understandings will potentially conflict. We will apply this framework in this pilot project to diagnosis complex problems across four 'Challenge Themes': Mobility & Accessibility, Health & Happiness, Equality & Inclusion and the 'Carbon Neutral' city. We have appointed 'Theme Leaders' who are all 'end users' of the diagnostics, ensuring that the process of investigation is cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary, participatory and grounded in real-world context and application.The legacy of the project will be threefold: firstly innovation in the diagnostic framework and methods needed to address urban challenges; secondly its application to the Bristol urban area and the resulting diagnostics synthesise across the four Challenge Themes; and finally the formation of an embryonic cadre of cross-sector city leaders with the capability to apply integrated diagnostics and challenge the prevailing 'business as usual' approaches.