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This year the Festival of Making Conference programme extends beyond Blackburn, as we have several events taking place in Preston too. In the first of these events, Ruth Heritage of They Eat Culture will be hosting a roundtable discussion at People’s Production Lab in Preston. Date: Wednesday 16th May 2018. Time: 2.30pm for 3pm start until 4.30pm The…
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Our Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) Symposium takes place on Thursday 17th May 2018 in the North Transept at Blackburn Cathedral. BIG involves a series of presentations and panel discussions hosted in association with Creative Lancashire, Crafts Council and Lancashire Skills Hub. These plenary events will explore the relationship between making, skills, and new or emerging…
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By Martyn Ware. First of all, some context… The year is 1999 – at this point I’d already spent over 30 years in the music business as an artist with The Human League, Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation, and as a producer for artists such as Tina Turner and Terence Trent D’Arby, but this…
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By Hannah Stewart – Royal College of Art. We hear the underlying automated hum of our ‘industry 4.0’ future near constantly at the moment, robotic factories and a data surveillance augmented society, VR and haptic interfaces gamifying our shopping or replacing our sex lives – it’s everywhere – the constant near audible hum of a…
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By Annie Warburton, Creative Director, Crafts Council. Digital technologies are revolutionising how things are made, where they are made and who makes them. At the same time, craft is driving innovation in other sectors. We see the tacit intelligence of the hand stimulating innovation in such diverse fields as digital technology, aerospace and bioscience. Meanwhile…
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Business Innovation for Growth (BIG): Skills & Factory 4.0 Roundtable Moderated by Hannah Stewart (RCA) In association with Crafts Council and Lancashire Skills Hub We start the BIG Conference summit with an intimate conversation about creating and making skills in education and training. We will explore the skills implications of factory 4.0 and the impact…
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With Annie Warburton (Crafts Council), David Hardman MBE (Innovation Birmingham), Charles Hadcock DL (Chairman, Creative Lancashire), Hannah Stewart (RCA) & Mo Isap (IN4.0 & NFORM Education) Full line-up tba A series of presentations and panel discussions hosted in association with Crafts Council and Lancashire Skills Hub. These plenary events will explore the relationship between making,…
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