Growth, even good growth, also brings challenges. When you go from a handful of self-motivated entrepreneurs to a team of directors and employees, how do you maintain your inspiration, the drive and values that led you to start your enterprise in the first place? Three growing enterprises will be sharing how their organisation influences society.
Celebrating the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s 10th anniversary in a collaboration between AHRC and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, ‘Books and the Human’ will pose the question: what are the primary relationships between books and knowledge, and between books and human beings?
The Knowledge Quarter welcomes the new Google re:Work website, a collection of research, practices and ideas from a variety of organisations and leaders to put people first and transform workplaces.
Knowledge Quarter partner, Poet in the City, presents an event in celebration of Ted Hughes, marking the 50th anniversary of Modern Poetry in Translation, and exploring his remarkable legacy.
The Knowledge Quarter (KQ) and The University of the Arts London (UAL) are working in partnership to host an event that will provide rare insights into the ways in which knowledge based institutions and businesses make knowledge available in the marketplace and to their wide range of customers and clients.
Scriberia’s recent series of animations for near neighbours, long-time collaborators and fellow KQ partners, The Guardian’s #KeepItInTheGround campaign is one example of the effective use of animation to deliver factual content to an online audience.
Join your fellow Knowledge Quarter members at the London Review Bookshop over a glass of wine and nibbles, and enjoy 10% off all books bought on the night, free gift wrapping, refreshments and an exclusive bag of goodies to brighten the dark winter evening.
On the 25th of October as part of the Bloomsbury festival, the Knowledge Quarter organised a series of talks on the theme of Positive Disruption at Conway Hall. The multidisciplinary reflected in the panels provoked an inspiring debate on what the effect of positive disruption can be in science, arts, technology and its impact on society.
The KQ is pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Stevens as the KQ’s Advocacy and Communications Manager. Daniel joins from the British Council and will be providing on-going strategic advice and support on matters of advocacy and communications.
British Library Chief Librarian Caroline Brazier will join the Trustee Board of CILIP – the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals – from the start of 2016. CILIP is the leading professional body for librarians across the UK and plays a key role in advocating on behalf of the profession and advancing professional skills and standards.