Where does Made In Worthing go?

Sorting through around 150 ideas generated by the pop-up Made In Worthing think tank, there are some ideas that are fairly easy to make happen. And a few of them are around the very idea of Made In Worthing.

The Think Tank

There’s a clear need expressed to continue the work started by the think tank, letting local people and visitors come together to start making a difference to Worthing.

‘Hold regular think tanks in coffee shops’

This ties in with another idea that was expressed by a number of people, the need to bring people together;

‘A Worthing Likemind group – meet up monthly. Low key networking for creatives. Coffee morning, some evenings’

‘Bring Tuttle to Worthing’

‘Do that event where one day in summer, people sit on their doorsteps or on chairs outside their houses and chat’

madeinworthing.com

‘Create a ‘Town We Want’ blog and get the community to contribute to it’

Worthing has a number of community websites, all with slightly different purposes. There’s always a problem with local sites, usually built by keen amateurs (internet radio hams) keeping up with progress though. Do we need something bigger, faster, better?

worthingstuff.co.uk has shown a possible way forward, aggregating content from social media – it could easily, with some tech support, become a central point for information.

‘A website where anyone can post an audio recording, commentary, guided walk etc. You can download a commentary and trace their steps’

‘Signage for Twitter and Facebook around entry points to the town – tell us what you think of Worthing’

Made In Worthing

Made In Worthing was conceived as a once-a-year event, a weekend of new artwork, performance and exploration. It seems though, after the think tank, that people would like to see fresh thinking, original ideas, crowd-sourced planning and guerilla regeneration all year round. especially where it support local traders.

‘Made In Worthing stickers on shops and independent traders’

‘Promote pubs in town – didn’t really notice them’

Moving on

So while Made In Worthing was my baby, would you all like to come along for the ride now?  Mooey’s Mocha Shop in Chapel Road have already offered a home for a regular think tank coffee morning. Over the last couple of weeks this website has become a forum for forward-thinking debate and discussion. How about we carry on here, and add more multi-media content as well, and pull in content from worthingstuff.co.uk?

And with all that, do we make Made In Worthing a new, agile organisation, a 21st century, social media fuelled, civic society?