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The French social innovation agency La 27e Region hosts a study to the Øresund Region for a range of regional decision makers in France. As part of the programme Uffe Elbæk and UiWE have been asked to give a presentation at Mindlab of the idea of a Social Innovation Lab in Copenhagen committed to develop new, cross disciplinary solutions to today’s (and tomorrow’s) social challenges.

Both Christian and Jacob will work as external examiners this summer. Christian is part of the examination team at Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (KEA) at the BA programme “Ideation Design”. Jacob is affiliated with the department of Architecture & Design at the University of Aalborg.

Christian speaks at “Kulturkonference 2010” (Culture Conference 2010) organized by The Local Government Training and Development Centre (COK/Center for Offentlig Kompetenceudvikling) – the Danish municipalities’ and regions’ nationwide organization for training and development. On the agenda are cultural strategies in urban development with the cultural planning of Køge as case.

UiWE starts up a master program course running through March on social innovation and design methodology at Malmö University’s school of Arts and Communication, Culture- and media production. The course explores cultural analysis and strategies to promote social change. In this case it’s about developing cross-sector solutions to one of the great health challenges in western societies: child obesity. See Geoff Mulgan’s TED Talk if you forgot why we need social innovation.

How do you convert knowledge into business? That is the subject of the an introductory course February 1st at Copenhagen Business Centre. The course is geared toward the entrepreneur who wants to start his own business and uses a combination of theory and first hand experience.

Christian gives a crash course in cultural communication and planning at Malmö University’s masters program Kultur- och Medievetenskap. The product is a mapping of cultural potential and challenges in the city of Århus, looking ahead to the bid for Århus Cultural Capital 2017.

UiWe and the task-force for public-private partnerships at Erhvervs- og byggestyrelsen (Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority) arranged a workshop at the municipality of Copenhagen on collaboration, culture and value in urban planning and administration. The workshop was attended by lawyers and economists of KEC (Copenhagen Center of Business), Center for Bydesign (Center of Urban Design) and Borgerservice (Citizen services )

We have been invited to speak at Studio X in New York on the 5th of November. Studio X is a studio for experimental design and research run by Columbia University. The subject for the day will be “The A, B and C’s of Culture Design” in conversation with Leong Leong Architecture. Please drop by if you are in the neighbourhood.
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Today UiWe recieved a grant from Statens Kunstfond (Danish Art Foundation) to attend Creative Places + Spaces in Toronto october 28th – one of the world’s leading forums on creativity.

Under the theme of ‘The Collaborative City’, the conference will engage global perspectives on collaboration and connect them with local change makers. Among the speakers are Ken Robinson, Richard Florida and Charles Landry. The conference is curated by ArtScape of Toronto. See more at www.creativeplacesandspaces.ca

Styrelsen for Bibliotek og Medier (Agency for Libraries and Media) invites UiWe to
join a task group working to propose new partnerships for libraries.

The group is a part of a project launched by Kulturministeriet (The Minestry of Culture) aiming to rethinking the role of libraries in the knowledge society.

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