THE SPIRIT OF TRANS IN FORM IN TRANEMO

What´s happening outside the Trans in Form project?

Staffan Arvegård 27.01.2012 What´s the spirit of Trans in Form?

• Create the good life in rural areas in BSR • Stop the decrease of population • Increase attractivness, Interactive meeting places • Become better in what you are good at • Be innovative • Think outside the box • Communicate

Trans in Form Project objectives

•To raise awareness among policy makers and citizens about regional attractivness. • To elaborate a number of scenarios with focus on urban design and regional attractivness. • To create a number of marketing packages with new narratives for the regions. • To establish and publish a collection of selected highligts as a part of the new narratives and make them avaliable through the Internet as ”Roadmap to rural highligts in BSR”. • To develop action plans for facelifting town centers through investments. Other projects outside Trans in Form

• Tranemodellen • Creative Rooms • The modern library • Nordic bicycle towns • Tourism strategy • Glass House • Global Festival • EU projects • New organisation Tranemodellen The Tranemodel

A model for development of Tranemo municipality. The aim is to provide the inhabitants with tools to influence their lives, but also to enable their participance and opportunities to develop.

• Interacitve meeting places • Creative rooms • Stimulate changes • Develop people, products and municipality • Synergy effects

We want to establish We want to create a network creative rooms for between different rooms in individuals, groups, regions, contexts and companies and local countries with concrete and villages to help them create local project as a bas. their future. The modern library in Tranemo

New library close to the lake. Upper secondary school to the left and new apartments in the background Citizen place

New park with activities and meeting places

Bus terminal The modern library

Apartments Tranemo park more exposed milestone

FINE PARK exposed towards Brogatan

dance on the bridge

a place in the sun beachvolley for the students

playground

scene for conserts, theater ACTIVITY PARK and other performances Tranemo meeting place

walk along the water mini golf

long bridge WP5 Investments and technical documentations

Extension stage for the pilot project • Focus on the area around the library. • Interactive meeting places. • Highlights. Investments above the normal level. • Illumination of the area. • A outdoor gym (a playground for adults). • A floating music scene in the lake with place for the audience close to the library. NORDIC BICYCLE TOWNS

Bicycle municipality

• Bicycles for safety, health, environment and pleasure • Transforming old and not used railways to modern cycle paths • Bicycle plan • Bicycle map • A new sign system and better service • Stimulate people to use the bicycle • Education for children • Increase bicycle tourism together with the nabors • Rent a bicycle

Tourism strategy

• Improve the tourism together with municipality and the region. Big potential. • Cooperation is neccessary. • Positive for small enterprises, visitors and inhabitants. • Food, experiences and events

THE OX TRAIL

The Glass House

• Old glass industry history from 1740 • A small glass museum needs to develop • Privat persons and local enterprises planned a new building close to the railway station. • Investment 2.2 million Euro • Start September 2011 • Opening June 2012

The Glass House

• Museum, showroom, interactive glass work for the public, conference room, waiting room for travellers, café. • A new NGO with more than 600 members started to realise and maintain the activities. • Some real jobs will be realized. • Guided tourist bus tours in the area, storytelling

Develop Storgatan (Main street) in Tranemo

• Private project driven by private enterprises, suported by the municipality • Treatment of the customers • Service, opening hours, offers • Cooperation • Events Concentrate the city

Gymnasiet

Bibliotek

New library

100 – 150 nya bostäder NY ILLUSTRATION!! 100 till 150 attractive Mitt i Tranemo kan apartments close to det byggas 100 -150 Tranemo centre nya bostäder med god tillgänglighet och med ”all” service inom nära Kommunhuset gångavstånd!! New apartments in Tranemo city THE YELLOW HOUSE IN

An old industrial building from 1892. The plan was to tare it down. This must be stopped! Could this group change the future in Uddebo? Building weekends THE YELLOW HOUSE IN UDDEBO

Interactive meeting place Guinness World Record, May 15th 2010 Why world record? Yellow House in Uddebo want to make it possible for people to meet. Together we can make great things wether it is renovating buildings, create art or beat world records.

Swedens biggest scratchcard Music conserts

Energy exhibition Human duckrace ART PADDLING

”PROVA BO”

Try to live in the countryside ”Cheap living and a rich life” Inspiring studies in different places

Don´t wait for others to create your future! Do it yourself, together with your friends! YELLOW FACTORY

Improve your creativity! Fulfill your dreams! Local development plans Scenario planning in the villages

• Dialog with developing groups in the villages • How do they want to create their future? • How can the municipality support? Education in storytelling

The people in the villages will contribute to tell stories. Together these stories will create a positive picture of Tranemo municipality and the region.

Trans in Form WP4 New narratives and storytelling

Storytelling is to explain and entertain

• Facts and fiction •Different actors • Interesting •Different ways to present stories • Thrilling • Entertaining • Humoristic • Unforgetable

THE GLOBAL FESTIVAL

New municipal organisation

• New organisation from 2011 • More active politicians in strategic planning • More people in strategic planning • More focus on future planning, (scenario planning) • New international strategy • Better strucure in searching for EU funded projects • Better cooperation between different municipal sectors • Better dialog with the inhabitants • Better support of NGO:s