Symposia
European Contactday - Belgian Presidency
11 October, 10h - 21h > Budascoop
Table-conferences with European representatives and local politicians, members of cultural organizations, SME's and students design and innovation.
The next big thing will be a lot of small things by timelab"
18 October, 09h - 22h > Budascoop
Table conferences: Open source production, services, funding and ecopower.
19h30: Keynote speaker: John Thackara who inspires worldwide companies, designers and interested people within the question "what might life in a sustainable world be like?" and "what design steps are needed to get us from here, to there?" http://www.thackara.com/
21h00: Reception
Fostering creativity within cities: playtime is over. Eurotowns in collaboration with Leiedal
21 October, 10h - 18h > Concertgebouw and Budascoop
In 2002 Richard Florida published "The Rise of the Creative Class", a book that stresses the importance of creativity for economic growth. Since its publication many cities and regions have experimented with tools and measures to foster creativity. Kortrijk has also worked actively on creative clusters and innovation in
recent years. But how do you move forward, how do you draw up a coherent creativity policy and what are the success factors of such a policy? With this conference the Interreg IVB North Sea project "Creative City Challenge" and the Eurotowns network bring together experts, companies and cities and want to inspire and challenge cities and regions with creative ambitions. The conference falls within the scope of the "Innovation Festival".
More information: www.leiedal.be
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