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Creativeworks London to feature in Digital Shoreditch Festival 2015Creativeworks London (CWL) is delighted to be featuring in this year’s Digital Shoreditch. On May 12, we will be leading a panel looking at how Women in Digital Culture and the Economy in London have been working with CWL and exploring options for the future sustainability of such work. A second event led by CWL PDRA Dr Gerard Briscoe is on Culture Hacks: The Emergence of Hackathons for Culture. Europe’s tech and creative communities have come together to create two weeks of extraordinary content for Digital Shoreditch Festival, running from Monday 11th to Sunday 24th May 2015. Speakers include participants from a wide range of companies such as BBC, SapientNitro, Bompas and Parr, Ceviche, Holition, EA Digital Illusions CE and SocialBro. Shoreditch Town Hall and the surrounding tech and creative quarter will be a space to see, hear, experience and experiment with some of the most celebrated digital companies and projects developed in London and throughout Europe. For two weeks the area will become a digital playground for the community, with a programme that includes talks, workshops, open studios, dinners, film screenings, music series, hacks, parties, tech tours and more. Key themes from the previous festival will return for 2015 as well as introducing a whole host of new topics and areas. New areas include Intelligent Devices and Smart Cities, Food and Health, MakerTech, DIY and Hacker, Film and Music, Space and Incubation, Wearable tech and Fintech. Digital Shoreditch is open to everyone, driven by a network of the most talented companies and brightest individuals from the tech sector and converging industries. A full spectrum of local, regional and national associations and businesses are also supporting, including Taylor Wessing, PlayGen, London Borough of Hackney, London Stock Exchange, City University London, City of London Corporation, Ogilvy & Mather UK, Queen Mary University of London, CBRE, Ordnance Survey, Knowledge Transfer Network and William Hill, with Waggener Edstrom as this year’s Communications Partner. Click here for further festival news. Click here to register and buy your ticket. |
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Creativeworks London is one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.