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Melissa Mean

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melissa.mean@demos.co.uk
Melissa runs the Cities Programme at Demos.

Melissa runs the Cities Programme at Demos, where she leads a variety of projects on public space, creativity, and the future of cities.

Projects that Melissa is currently involved with include:

Glasgow 2020: a major mass imagination project to develop new stories for Glasgow based on people's everyday lives and aspirations. This innovative public engagement project is focused on how individual and collective well-being can be better connected and explores non-institutional approaches to city development.

Mass Participation 2012: this feasibility study is investigating how communties across the whole of the UK can meaningfully participate in the London Olympics and how they can win a sustainable local legacy. Demos is developing practical proposals for how this can be taken forward.

Extended Malls: this project is looking at how and if out of town shopping centres- often seen as the bogey-men of urban renewal- can yet become spaces of civic and social value.

The Network Effect: Demos works with the British Council to design and deliver this leadership development programme for the next generation of European leaders, with participants from countries stretching from Ireland to Turkey.

Melissa has worked with with a wide range of cities and local authorities across the UK and internationally including Barcelona,  Gothenburg, Helsinki, Lewisham, Milton Keynes, Newcastle Gateshead, Sunderland and Wakefield.

Previous to joining Demos Melissa was Government Affairs Officer for the RSPB where she worked on climate change, transport and urban policy. Melissa also spent time in Washington DC working for Public Citizen on environmental justice and consumer rights issues.

In her spare time she is an elected board member of the Waterloo Community Regeneration Trust, a £5million community-led SRB programme in central London.

e-mail melissa.mean@demos.co.uk

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Inside Out
Authors
Helen McCarthy, Melissa Mean, Tom Bentley
Publication Date
2003-02-26
Publication Type
Pamphlet

The government's approach to tackling social exclusion needs to be rethought if community-based organisations are not to lose the trust of the people they serve.

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Masters of the Universe
Authors
James Wilsdon, Melissa Mean
Publication Date
2004-03-03
Publication Type
Pamphlet

While the US tries to dominate space, Europe can offer a vision of public space based on the values of openness and peace.

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After the Gold Rush
Authors
Anthony Vigor, Charlie Tims, Melissa Mean
Publication Date
2004-10-25
Publication Type
Pamphlet

After the Gold RushHosting 'the greatest show on earth' is seen by some as a once in a lifetime opportunity to provide new infrastructure and deliver benefits to local residents and communities and this is why London is bidding.

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People Make Places
Authors
Charlie Tims, Melissa Mean
Publication Date
2005-09-12
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Based on in-depth studies of three British towns and cities Cardiff, Preston and Swindon, People Make Places explores how the best public spaces are created by people and communities themselves.

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The Dreaming City
Authors
Charlie Tims, Gerry Hassan, Melissa Mean
Publication Date
2007-05-23

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State of Trust
Authors
Melissa Mean, Phil Spires
Publication Date
2008-07-09
Publication Type
Report

Politicians from all parties are beginning to grasp a public service reform agenda based on localism, co-production and community empowerment. But the vision of a partnership between citizen and state is under threat from worryingly low levels of public trust in politics and democratic institutions.

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Joost Beunderman, Melissa Mean
Publication Date
2007-07-18
Publication Type
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Edited by Joost Beunderman, Joan-Anton Sánchez de Juan and Melissa Mean, this collection of essays is the result of a collaboration between Demos and the Barcelona think tank Fundació Ramon Trias Fargas.

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Greening Up Demos

Charlie Tims, Melissa Mean, Molly Webb, Celia Hannon, Joost Beunderman

We're committed to being an environmentally-friendly organisation. With all the travel we're doing, it's not going to be easy. We want to share our experiences and efforts at going green on this page - with the ultimate aim of becoming a zero carbon/zero waste workplace.

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The Network Effect

Melissa Mean, Kirsten Bound

The Network Effect brings together Europe's future leaders in a creative, influential and distincitve network.

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Bristol Urban Beach

Melissa Mean

Demos and Zero Zero are helping Bristol to open its own urban beach in summer 2007.

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Reputation, Security and Trust

The research theme on turst and security at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the LSE

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WorldMapper

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest (fuel, imports, exports etc).

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The critical skills gap

Infosys, the leading Indian information technology services company, is so desperate for staff that it has started recruiting in the US, where it has just hired 300 people. In China, international accountancy firms are scrambling to fill thousands of posts in a country where qualified bean counters are almost as rare as democratic elections.

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East Asian Science, technology and Society (EASTS): an international Journal

We strongly believe that East Asian STS will offer fresh STS perspectives because of her special local experiences, sharing similar cultural and colonial history, similar meteorological and biological makeup, and similar global positions with respect to the West.

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CAPABLE project

CAPABLE studies children's behaviour and perceptions in an effort to understand how children currently use the local environment and what can be done to make it easier and safer for them to move about on foot.