Shaping the future through open conversations
Helen Graham Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 2nd August 2017, City Screen My Future York have collaborated with York Central Action and City Screen to put on Citizen Jane: Battle for the City. Jacobs was a writer and a campaigner against ‘slum clearance’ initiatives who had a strong interest in how places are made by interactions … Read more
Before collaborating on My Castle Gateway project, Phil Bixby and Helen Graham worked together on My Future York. More than once they’ve been asked why use ‘my’ (rather than, say Your Future York or Our Future York). Here they discuss the various reasons and how ‘my’ signals the distinctive approach to engagement taken in the … Read more
In a short film – available on our You Tube channel – Phil Bixby (local architect and part of the My Castle Gateway team) introduces why working together to draw up a collective brief is one of the first steps in the My Castle Gateway project. To do this one of the questions we asking … Read more
Castle Gateway: Stories of Change 29th July, Eye of York From 9am We invite you to join us for a series of events – with something for all ages – to explore the Castle area of York it as it was, as it is now and to imagine it differently. The City of York Council … Read more
The My Castle Gateway project is about shaping the future but this raises questions about the area’s past: What do we need to understand about the histories of Castle Gateway to make decisions about its future? We caught up with John Oxley, City of York Council City Archaeologist to ask him the big stories of … Read more
Opening Up Castle Gateway My Castle Gateway in collaboration with Coaching York 22nd July 2017 From 10.30am Drop in or sign up to be sure of your place Sign up here: 10.30am / 11am (accessible walk) / 11.30 / 12noon / 12.30pm / 1pm (accessible walk) / 1.30pm / 2pm / 2.30pm We invite you … Read more
We went to the Guildhall Ward Committee about the Castle Gateway area. We asked : • What’s important? • What would you like to do here in the future? When we looked at the Post-it notes there were some very clear themes. People wanted to: • Eat [food stalls, fast food, restaurants] [some said the … Read more