Archive for October, 2006
Friday, October 27th, 2006
At the first of the BBC Innovation Lab Launch Days in Brighton yesterday, we used a version of 'appreciative inquiry' to explore factors which contribute to innovation. I did the same thing in collaboration with the philosopher Humberto Schwab at the workshop for the opening of the Media Guild last ...
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
At Nesta's conference on supporting "making innovation flourish" at the Business Design Centre I find myself lobbying civil servants from the DCMS about the governmnent's 'technology programme' again. One of them asked me to send an email, so I did:
"This is an extension of the case I made to the ...
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
The second series of BBC Innovation Labs has now been officially launched.
We're doing four this year: one in Scotland, one in London and one each for the North and South of England.
We've set dates for the Launch events where Matt Locke and others from the BBC will explain the new ...
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
Given that our first meeting was on July 5th, here, the London Games Fringe has been amazingly successful.
It's very difficult to make conferences and festivals in London work as immersive experiences. Cities like Cannes, Edinburgh or Leipzig can seem to be wholly focused on a single event. All the bars, ...
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
The keynote speaker at the Games Summit at the London Games Festival is Shaun Woodward, Minister at the Department of Culture Media and Sport. He makes it clear that the government recognises games as being an important part of the UK’s creative industries. He commits himself to doing what ...
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Pat Kane, author of 'The Play Ethic' is the opening speaker at today's InSync event for the London Games Festival Fringe. He talks about 'play' as being an increasingly appropriate response to and strategy for life in the 21st Century, a move away from the puritan 'work ethic' as a ...
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