Looks like we’ve secured a fantastic new venue for Shine’10. Under wraps at the moment, but remember to hold the date – May 13th-15th, most likely right after the general election – the time and the place to discuss what the new government can offer social entrepreneurs.
Posts Tagged ‘event’
Jaron Lanier – You Are Not A Gadget
Monday, February 1st, 2010Brilliant talk at the RSA tonight – one of those events that give you a payoff you’re not fully expecting, and all the more satisfying because of it. Jaron Lanier – pioneer of Virtual Reality and musician amongst many other things – launched his book of the above title which, in essence, is a manifesto for people over technology, delivered with an unremitting optimism for the potential of the human spirit. His argument goes, and of course I’m paraphrasing, that after a generation of experiment, the evidence shows the web not to have delivered some of the things early evangelists (of which he was one) said it would. For example, the idea that open source would deliver the kind of bountiful return that would make producers (of music, software, literature etc) rich from the seed of their own generosity just hasn’t happened. The evidence, as you know from speaking to any musician trying to make an honest living these days – is that freemium has left many people poorer despite opening up the closed systems that went before.
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germination at interesting.
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009We FINALLY made it to Interesting this year, an annual shenenigan that invites an assortment of people to talk about something interesting (obvo) and that’s most definitely not to do with their work. We had high hopes as everyone always talks about how great the event is, and we weren’t disappointed. As event producers, yep, we go to lots of these, and it’s always a joy when they get it right. (more…)
Collaborating for New Habitats
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009We’ve been at the Clear Village launch in Copenhagen this week for the launch of the Clear Village project at the Copenhagen Design Week. Clear Village is a group of people, organised through a Foundation plus a loose network of designers, architects and others across the world with the aim to create the first fully sustainable village in the world. It’s a huge challenge, not least in terms of how do you design it, but also the task of defining what is fully sustainable, asking whether its really the first, who else is doing it and such.