Entrepreneurship is about innovation. And innovation is rooted in curiosity & diversity, for this reason we like to give our community events that will expose their brain to new knowledge. It is also important to let the brain play and not have a definitive task, letting it contemplate, speculate and wonder – it’s like a healthy gym session for your brain.
Tuesday, 19 March 2013 : The Future of Technology
7:00 – 8:30pm
Join us to discuss the future of technology, the benefits and risks, the effects of technology cutting employment and how or whether we should prepare for this.
INFO about the participants
Anne Lise Kjaer‘s insight into every area of futures – from energy, cars and technology to health, food and fashion, to the next big thing in culture, retail and travel has given her a worldwide client base and a unique ability to engage and inspire her audiences. A figurehead in the global forecasting community she says “The future is not some place we go but one we create”. Kjaer’s speciality is shaping the strategies and the core concepts that are driving tomorrow’s businesses and brands. She creates clarity out of complexity and has an impressive track record of helping blue-chip corporations and organisations navigate the future. Clients include Accenture, Nielsen, McKinsey, Sony, P&G, IKEA, Toyota, Telefonica and Unilever.
David Wood was co-founder of Symbian and served on its executive leadership team continuously from 1996-2009. He is now Catalyst & Futurist at Delta Wisdom, providing companies with intelligence for profound change. Clients of Delta Wisdom include Accenture, where David has acted as Mobility CTO. In between assignments he is writing a book, “Smartphones and beyond: lessons from the remarkable rise and fall of Symbian”. He tweets on technology and market trends as @dw2. He is also chair of London Futurists, a fast-growing meetup which currently has over 1300 members.
Tuesday, 26 February 2013 : Art and Science
7:00 – 8:30pm
Take the opportunity to interrogate the creative relationships between Art and Science- with a focus particularly, on the ways in which this inextricable link provides space for true, interdisciplinary knowledge to be produced and communicated.
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Malte Oppermann is a research physicist in the Quantum Optics & Laser Science Group at Imperial College London, where he is currently finishing his PhD. He studies the motion of atoms and electrons inside molecules via extremely short laser pulses. Outside the laboratory he is a co-organiser of ‘Jiggling Atoms’, a multidisciplinary illustration project that celebrates science and traces out its impact onto our lives. For this, the Jiggling Atoms teamcreates close dialogues between scientists and illustrators, fusing scientific knowledge with visual communication and artistic interpretation.
Friday, 25 January 2013 : Protest and Ideals
7:00 – 8:30pm
Whether its student protests against cuts in the UK, online protesting in China, victim blaming and Slut Walks or union protests – London has a vibrant tradition of political protest and as a proving ground for radical movements. In January THECUBE is collaborating on this salon of thought with SCHOOL, which operates around the moment of knowledge exchange, participation and collaboration.
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Kerri Meehan is one of the founders of Superlative TV, a pirate TV station that transmits on the radio spectrum left fallow following the digital switchover. They have a remit to commission, curate and create TV that engages audiences. Superlative TV offer a politically active model of public access television: an enfranchising, free television service in dialogue with its audience and makers. http://superlativetv.com/
Anna Pigott is part of The Feminist Library, which is a large archive collection of Eomen’s Liberation Movement Literature. IThey support reserach, activist and community projects in this field. Furthermore she is active in Women Studies Without Walls. The impetus for WSWW was a concern that much of what is now taught in universities as Gender Studies has lost touch with grassroots feminist activism, coupled with a fear that the neo-liberal and cuts agenda across education will remove any possibility of radical education at any stage of learning. http://feministlibrary.co.uk/
Savvas Papasavva is a technician at heart, preoccupied by the mechanices of film making and often there at the extremities of art, in its fabricationg, preparing for or installing. His work has been describes as the marriage of random obkects and other such things. Previous residencies include projects such as When (i) disappear at the Camden Arts Centre (2007),Transition 08 at the Newlyn Gallery (2008), as well as (three) range chicken at the Freightliners City Farm (2008) and Boat Project with Tottenham Hale International Studio (2011) which he completed with his collaborators. http://www.miscpro.com/
Monday, 10 December 2012 : Buildings and our Relationship to the City
7:00 – 8:30pm
In December THECUBE will be hosting a discussion forum about Buildings and our Relationship to the City in collaboration with SCHOOL / JOURNEY.
The 21st century will see ever increasing levels of urbanisation. In this programme we look at the way we engage with the city. What do we need to take into account to ensure greater harmony between our future needs as individuals and the needs of the metropolis.
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Verde Ludovica Buliani has a Professional Diploma in Architecture from the London Metropolitan University. She has been featured in ‘Learning from Dehli: Dispersed Initiatives in Changing Urban Landscapes’, a manifesto for an alternative form of architectural practice.
Emma Cummins is a London-based writer and Coordinating Editor of the academic journal ‘City’. Her research is focused on the impact of the global financial crisis on the contemporary urban landscape.
Alexander Dark is a anthropologist interested in combining and comparing the anthropological voice in urban studies and theories. He continues to focus on the links between the experience of individuals and sociopolitical and economic processes as well as on the cultural meaning of the urban environment.
Renee Carmichael is a writer and artist whose work explores technologies, not as a new phenomenon, but as a means to expose the larger cultural structures that already inherently exist within the technologies. Renee is the editor of Flee Immediately! and a current artist in resident on the [SPACE] Permacultures programme.
Thursday, 22 November 2012 : Creative Cities and their Challenges
7:00 – 8:30pm
In November we will be holding our next Brain Play session on ‘Creative Cities and their Challenges’. Being in London and a part of the creative city, whether its by consumption or giving, we are a part and responsible for changing our city scape.
Event Format
‘Creative Cities and their Challenges’, will be composed of a collaborative discussion on the dangers and benefits of those kind of cities, using London as a prime example.
What are the benefits of a creative city?
Is creative gentrification healthy?
What are the social, political and economic consequences?
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Shawnee Keck – Policy Advisor and Economist for Hackney Council
Shawnee Keck has worked with organisations in communities from Cuba to India and across the public, private and non-profit sectors. An American in London for eight years, her research and policy focus is local economic growth, adaptive government, and inequality. Her UK projects include support services co-designed with NEETs, a survey of entrepreneurship entitled ‘The Future Face of Enterprise’ and an audit of local government and community sector economic development partnerships. As a Policy Advisor for Hackney Council, Shawnee reports on labour market, business and property trends and leads on the Olympic Host Boroughs economic forecast.
Hajni Semsei – Co-founder and Director at Arbeit
Hajni is the Co-founder and Diector at Arbeit. Arbeit is a interdisciplinary space with the desire to provide and facilitate artists and designers of various background and disciplines. Arbeit aim to inspire, encourage and develop both the communal and personal aspects of art and creation.