Final Programme for MCS75 Civic Day on Saturday 22 June, 2013

Celebrating 75 years of civic engagement, innovation
and conservation ef<strong>for</strong>ts <strong>for</strong> the Liverpool City Region
An event in celebration of the MCS 75 th Anniversary
Saturday 22 June : 1100-1700
‘State of the City’ <strong>Day</strong>: Our City’s Changing Face
The Bluecoat, School Lane, L1 3BX
With grateful thanks to The
Bluecoat <strong>for</strong> kindly offering
MCS the use of most of their
ground floor <strong>for</strong> activities
celebrating <strong>Civic</strong> <strong>Day</strong> 2013.
With grateful thanks also to
Wilkinsons, the family owned
hardware business, with more 335
stores on local high streets, <strong>for</strong>
supplying materials <strong>for</strong> use in model
making and other workshops.
PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY
A day to reflect on what we can celebrate, what we are already doing well
and what we should seek to change about Liverpool and the City-Region.
A free day of interactive discussion, debate and creative workshops
to mark Merseyside <strong>Civic</strong> Society’s 75 th anniversary.
Join us to contribute your ideas – to discuss, listen, watch, plan, picnic and share.
With music, per<strong>for</strong>mance, model making, photos and map making.
Activities are under way in different parts of the building, as indicated below
– with The Hub as the welcoming point from which you can be guided
to what appeals to you most. The cafe in the hub area is open as usual.
Sandon Room : ‘Building and Planning’ an eco-building project; a city map, inviting you
to indicate your favourite places in the city and add to a montage of images of those
places; a question board inviting your views on what makes your city unique, what makes
it a good place to live, etc; postcard from Liverpool - in which you can sketch your own
ideal postcard of places that you think should appeal to visitors.
Garden Room : Discussion groups will start roughly every half-hour, each on a different
topic, where, after an introductory talk, people are encouraged to have their say and
engage in discussion or offer to lead an introduction to a topic of their choice.
Some topics will be led by professionals, dealing with issues ranging from
aspects of city society, buildings and planning, health and the environment.
The Courtyard : full of music, per<strong>for</strong>mance and poetry.
[See over-page <strong>for</strong> more details of the programme : organised by Jean Grant ]

Venue : The Hub
Where would you rather live? The Tower or the Terrace?
Strathcona Road, Wavertree VE <strong>Day</strong> 1945
How does a community exist within a tower?
What should be done with the vacant terraced housing stock in the city?
How should towers relate to the ground?
Should we concentrate on preservation of housing or new Eco builds?
All of these questions are relevant to life in Liverpool today.
With Peel’s plans to build new residential towers in Liverpool and the existing problem
of vacant terraced housing in the city, the diversity of our residential living is
highlighted, and its future called into question.
The workshop at the Bluecoat today invites you to participate in the debate.
How would you design terraces and towers <strong>for</strong> future Liverpool? Think, discuss,
and then model your ideas, using sustainable materials and group collaboration.
Activity led by Dr Rob Macdonald and students from Liverpool John Moores University School of Architecture
Venue : Garden and Courtyard
Venue : The Hub
MCS and local society tables: including
<strong>Civic</strong> Voice
Friends of Williamson’s Tunnels
Granby Toxteth Development
Liverpool Parks
Merseyside Environmental Trust
Merseyside Transport
MITE – Mission in the Economy
Community College Students : Per<strong>for</strong>mances
From 1100, <strong>for</strong> about 20 minutes, with breaks until 1400.
Per<strong>for</strong>mances will be on a rolling programme of an acoustic
folk set and HNC and Extended Diploma students per<strong>for</strong>ming
a selection of urban and contemporary dance pieces.
Kevin Bargen and his Liverpool Shanty Kings
will be per<strong>for</strong>ming, and encouraging visitors to sing,
the city’s favourite sea shanties.
(inc. FOE)
Stan Ambrose will be playing his harp.
Venue : Sandon Room
Creating the city of the future
PLACED is a Liverpool-based Social Enterprise that
inspires young people about architecture and the built environment.
PLACED is delivering drop-in activities throughout the day to give local people
of all ages a chance to share their thoughts on what makes Liverpool
a good place to live and how it could be improved <strong>for</strong> local communities.
People’s postcards, montage, question boards and the Liverpool ‘State of the City’ map
will all be used to enable people to input their ideas quickly and in<strong>for</strong>mally,
creating a visual representation of how our residents view the city.
PLACED activities will be delivered by
professionals and students from the built environment.

Venue : Sandon Room
'Where do you think you are?'
Looking at the changing landscape, using modern and historic maps.
Have a go at navigating streets, looking at what's beneath your feet
and share views and memories - integrating the historic with the modern.
A workshop <strong>for</strong> all the family, sharing experiences of the city with Sarah-Jane Farr,
archaeological consultant, with 20 years of experience of advising on archaeological
planning issues in Merseyside.
Running throughout the day; see board <strong>for</strong> times
Venue : Garden Room
Discussion Groups : Provisional Schedule
Each session will feature an opening c. 10 minute presentation as an introduction
to wider discussion and debate on the specified topic or subject area.
1200 Olivier Sykes : Lecturer, Dept of Geography & Planning, University of Liverpool
Chasing Liverpolitan dreams – from splinterland to hinterland?
● St. Tudno, Loggerheads, Madryn Street and 24 January 1963
● 1981, 1984 and all that ● SuperLamBanana – No.118 ● Bay Area 2025?
1225 Liam Fogarty : Journalist , Broadcaster and Lecturer
Towards a city-region mayor ?
Having campaigned <strong>for</strong> Liverpool to have a directly-elected Mayor, Liam Fogarty - runner-up in the city's first
mayoral election in 2012 - makes the case <strong>for</strong> a Mayor <strong>for</strong> Merseyside. He claims the current arrangements <strong>for</strong>
leading the City Region are undemocratic, opaque and ineffective.
1250 Andrea Nixon : Executive Director, Tate Liverpool
25 years of Tate Liverpool: Cultural regeneration in Liverpool past / present / future
Tate Liverpool was created in 1988: over 25 years has become a symbol of a cultural regeneration and inspired a
raft of new public galleries round the country. Since Capital of Culture in 2008, the whole cultural sector in
Liverpool has gained in local and national profile and confidence. Looking ahead, what is our collective ambition
<strong>for</strong> cultural regeneration in the city <strong>for</strong> the next 25 years - and how do we think this will be achieved?
1315 Jonathan Brown : Urban Planner with ShareTheCity.org, Parks & Suburban Heritage Champion
10 steps to heaven - 10 crazy plans <strong>for</strong> civic self improvement
Let's imagine making Liverpool perfect - What if our children could cycle down Scotland Road in safety? Catch a
cable car to the Pier Head from Everton Park? Trans<strong>for</strong>m unsightly shop shutters into canvases <strong>for</strong> great art?
Bring your own ideas - the bigger (and smaller) the better ...
1345 Ken Martin : Architect and Art Promoter
Context and content - ideas and sketches, from the Albert Dock to New Brighton
1410 Robin Riley : Sculptor and MCS Public Monuments and Streetscape Champion
The disappearing place of historical and contemporary public sculpture
1430 John Ashton CBE : Joint Director of Public Health <strong>for</strong> Cumbria Primary Care Trust
Healthy city living <strong>for</strong> the 21st century
Now that the city of Liverpool has survived the ‘80s and looks as if it's here to stay, how do we raise our game to
become a green, sustainable city that is fit <strong>for</strong> all ages to live in and flourish?
1500 John Hinchliffe : Former World Heritage Site Officer, Liverpool City Council
What future <strong>for</strong> Liverpool's historic waterfront?
What makes Liverpool's historic waterfront so special? What changes have taken place and which might take
place? Asking whether new development is needed and if so, whether it should be contemporary or traditional;
whether the waterfront is adequately protected and; whether a bespoke plan is required to guide its future.
1530 Steph Petrie : Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Liverpool
and a Liverpool resident and worker <strong>for</strong> 15 years, after 25 years in Hull.
A Tale of Two Cities
Comparing and contrasting Liverpool & Hull –
both ports, both Northern cities at opposite ends of the M62 and severely affected by the economic recession.
1600 Rob Burns : Urban Design and Heritage Manager, Liverpool City Council
Liverpool’s future design challenges
Designing to context - is there a Liverpool aesthetic? The poverty of expectation - what does quality mean?
Design costs - but poor design costs more.
Is there a correlation between quality design +successful regeneration?
1630 Graham Marshall : Principal, MAXIM Urban Design and MCS Vice Chairman
A history <strong>for</strong> the future : MCS – the next 25 years?
"We must be the change we wish to see". Mahatma Ghandi Concluding session
Note : Sessions to be chaired by Paula Ridley, Peter Brown and Trevor Skempton.