The Bristol Urban Area Diagnostics Pilot

作为2015年欧洲绿色之都和洛克菲勒100个弹性城市之一，布里斯托挑战自己，到2065年转变为一个公民通过共同努力创造福祉而“繁荣”的地方，并以公平和可持续的方式实现这一目标。布里斯托市区可以合法地声称是这种城市转型的先锋，但其发展道路仍然具有悖论的特点，如果要保持朝着理想目标的进展，就需要处理一些严峻的现实，并挑战“一切照旧”的心态。这一提议解决了一个根本问题：是什么阻止了布里斯托弥合其现状与城市各种愿景和愿望所体现的理想未来之间的差距？我们已经建立了一个合作伙伴关系，重点是连续的布里斯托市和南格洛斯特郡市区。我们已经获得了两个地方当局的全力支持，布里斯托绿色资本伙伴关系和布里斯托健康合作伙伴，LEP，当地商界，公民团体和来自两所大学的学者，并承诺提供切实的支持。通过伙伴关系和真正的跨学科和跨部门合作来消除孤立是我们方法的核心，因此两所大学都承诺与外部合作伙伴以三方方式平等分享财务资源。我们能够广泛利用国际领先的研究资产，这是这个项目的关键优势，包括：“布里斯托是开放的”，FP 7资助的高效能源规划系统思维（STEEP），地平线2020重复项目，正在进行的工作在£ 3.5米EPSRC/ESRC国际中心基础设施期货（ICIF）和共同制作和共同设计的研究，如AHRC/ESRC Connected Communities and Digital Economy资助的项目包括REACT Hub、Tandem Memories和Productive Margins。我们还可以访问大量非常有价值的数据源，包括2015年布里斯托州报告，布里斯托的生活质量调查，以及自20世纪90年代以来跟踪14，500个当地家庭健康状况的雅芳父母和儿童纵向研究。我们打算建立在文博会认知建模方法的基础上，该方法确定了挑战既定心理模型的重要性，因为这些模型巩固了“一切照旧”的心态。其核心是共同创造和共同生产，并承认公民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，将多种观点汇集在一起，否则对城市挑战的诊断将仍然是支离破碎的，理解将可能发生冲突。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：移动性与可达性，健康与幸福，平等与包容以及“碳中和”城市。我们任命了“主题领导人”，他们都是诊断的“最终用户”，确保调查过程是跨部门、跨学科、参与性的，并以现实世界的背景和应用为基础。该项目的遗产将有三个方面：首先是应对城市挑战所需的诊断框架和方法的创新;其次，将其应用于布里斯托市区，并对四个挑战主题进行综合分析;最后，形成了一个跨学科的雏形，部门城市领导人有能力应用综合诊断，并挑战流行的“一切照旧”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.