Innovation Forum

The Innovation Forum is intended to facilitate progress by bringing together researchers and academics, technologists and designers, business people and marketers, policy makers and administrators to share knowledge about their skills and current insights and projects. It supports the free exchange of ideas towards the end of improving people’s lives at home, at work and in society.

22 April 2008 The next Future Media series event ‘The New new journalism’ has been announced (see Future events)

25 September 2007 An Innovation Forum group has been created on Facebook. This will be used primarily to publicise events.

31 May 2007 We are currently looking for supporters for the Innovation Forum. To date we have had support and hosting from BBC Future Media & Technology and NESTA.

Future events

May 22, 2008 The next event in the Future Media series: The New new journalism will ask how much has the media sector actually investigated and embraced the journalistic possibilities of networked digital media? We have brought together a smart group of thinkers and doers across the disciplines in the media sector to set the scene and facilitate a thoughtful discussion on how the Fourth Estate might better, and more ambitiously, engage with its future. The event takes place at BOX, a bespoke space for collaborative working at the London School of Economics in central London.

Events in the Future Media series are planned on rich media in the home, and will take place in early summer.

Past events

March 27, 2008 In collaboration with Living Labs Europe we programmed Flaneurs: The network is the city, a creative workshop on mobile urban services for London 2012 which took place at BOX, at the London School of Economics in central London.

June 12, 2007 Design series: Designerly Thinking: In conversation with Bill Moggridge (NESTA, Holborn, London)

May 10, 2007 Future Media series: Soapboxes in cyberspace: how can the media facilitate debate online? (The Guardian Newsroom, London)

February 20, 2007 Future Media series: Launch event: Who wants tomorrow’s papers?
(Business Lounge, Bush House, London)

Pictures from Walking the talk: increasing innovation in the media sector, October 2007

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The Innovation Forum idea was inspired by a conversation with Marko Balabanovic of lastminute.com Labs, and draws on his experience of models of public events around innovation at Stanford University.

If you have queries about the event please email   Nico Macdonald