Among other aims, this grassroots competition is designed to raise awareness of the built environment, help people to engage with town / country planning and perhaps to visualise how we would like things to be different!
The third of these aims has not come to pass through our competition but somewhere, sometime – perhaps near you – a similar crowd-sourcing exercise may be used to capture a vision of how a locality could be better for its residents, businesses and visitors. In the case of the Transition Network, the outcome would be a low-carbon economy. If public authorities could be involved from the outset (rather than consulting the public on proposals already drafted) such visions might even become reality!