The Knowledge Quarter (KQ) welcomes a further eight organisation as partners, bringing the total number of organisations involved in the partnership to 87. The KQ is delighted to welcome EIT Digital, London School of Business and Management, McCaldin Arts, Pan Macmillan, The Reading Agency, Sadler’s Wells, Universal Music and Warwick in London.
Support Somers Town ‘Make Chalton Street Great’ campaign. Chalton St. Market has been part of the fabric of Somers Town for over 100 years but is more than just a market. It is home to an ambitious engaged and diverse community – a community that want their local market to succeed and grow.
Do you like contemporary music? Why not sign up to help out at Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival as a front of house volunteer. You get to see lots of work for free and in return you need to be conscientious, committed and willing to help audiences have the very best time.
Somers Town (Camden) based Elephant Path launches an experimental enterprise that offers micro-services to tackle office stress and economic inactivity. During their working life, employees spend on average a third of their waking hours at their desk. This explains why domestic duties also have to be performed here – which adds to stress at work. Research has shown that office-based workers spend on average 1hour 20minutes of their 8h working day organising personal activities.
When building Conway Hall in 1929, the bronze bust of Moncure Conway went missing and the building’s entrance niche was left empty for 87 years. In 2016, however, a 3D print bronze-effect bust of Conway was unveiled, courtesy of a year-long project to restore this missing piece of heritage. In June 2017, the story continued with the launching of the publically available 3D print software of the bust thanks to Conway Hall, Dickinson College (Philadelphia, USA) and My Mini Factory’s Scan The World project.
In October 2017, 40 social innovators will come together in London for a 6 month full-time programme, with a mission to solve one of the developed world’s biggest social problems. They will be intensively supported by top entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and tech experts.
As part of Skills for Londoners, the Mayor’s Digital Talent Programme is investing £7 million to help young people get the right skills to fill digital, creative and technology occupations needed by every sector of London’s economy.
Camden Council is producing a Cultural Framework for the next five years and wants to hear from you! To have your input into this important framework please complete the online survey. Camden Council looks forward to hearing your thoughts, experiences and ideas on how Camden’s Cultural Sector can innovate, collaborate, build resilience and engender sustainability for all.
For one thing, taking an innovation major in an arts university enables students to each develop their own characters. This year, students taking the Masters in Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins will be hosting an exhibition themed around four global tensions. The four tensions are digital and physical, profit and preservation, now and the future, and order and chaos.
Alex Whitfield, Head of Learning Programmes at the British Library, is seeking partners to work together to make the Knowledge Quarter an accessible and inclusive destination for disabled visitors. We’d like to connect with partners from all disciplines to collectively map our existing programmes and projects.