Episode 1 - Pre-Playbook Meeting

If one wants to play it smart, it's good to have game rules. That's why pre-Playbook meeting was on the top of Dreamers' to-do list from the very beginning. With all this whirlwind of ideas produced on first brainstorming sessions, writing them down helped to sort things out.

Playbook does not serve only as solution filter, but it also helps to deal with technicalities - what responsibilities every member has in the project, what kind of data and tools are needed and how our schedules are going to look like.

However, The Dream Team was focused on discussing first ideas about city revitalization in greater detail. We were wondering which target group we should focus on. Young adults? 30-odd with kids? Or maybe kids only? We were also tackling business question. Will it be more reasonable to attract big investors from outside of the municipality or support the grassroots-level entreprises and different kind of start-ups?

Even the greatest dreamers must take on more down-to-earth approach from time to time - especially when question of fundraising arise. We only touched on this issue but in quite unconventional way. One of us has come up with crowdfunding idea which is proving successful in case of start-ups.

During the meeting team's trip to Sastamala was one of important issues. We have talked over its organization and main goals. In addition to meeting with officials and navigating city spaces, we decided that direct interaction with inhabitants and getting to know their opinion is crucial.

Icing on the cake was small presentation showed to us by Natalia (photo above). She has presented the ways in which we can demonstrate and visualize data we gathered to this date and future solutions concerning town center development.