RISE AND DESIGN - DESIGN NETWORK NORTH
The Key to International Success - 10 February 9-11am
Members meet on the second Friday of each month to share good practice, learn from experts and to collaborate on issues, projects and needs.
COMMUNITY LED DESIGN: WHAT IS IT AND DOES IT WORK?
21 February 6-8pm
The debate will begin with brief presentations from panellists, followed by an open discussion with members of the audience. The
debate will be chaired by Sophia de Sousa, Chief Executive, The Glass-House Community Led Design.This event is being
organised by The Glass-House Community Led Design in partnership with Northern Architecture.
21 February from 9.30am
MADE NORTH is a one day conference exploring the roles of design, art and technology in the future of the North. Speakers hand picked from the cream of the creative crop. The event takes place at FACT in Liverpool. Tickets are £55.
22 February
8-12 Middlesbrough
1.30-5.30 Newcastle
The CultureCode Boutique is the start of the journey for all cultural professionals and artists. This half day event (held in both Middlesbrough and Newcastle) will explore some of the opportunities your organisation has access to and how you would go about exploiting those opportunities to engage new audiences. As a Cultural professional you don't need to have any previous experience of digital, you don't even need to have an IT department, we will have specialists on hand to guide you through this process every step of the way.
24 February, 6.30 - 9.30pm
Newcastle City Library
The Science Of Innovation with guest speaker’s English inventor Trevor Bayliss OBE and James Hayton PhD, Professor of Innovation & Enterprise, Newcastle University
Trevor Baylis who shot to fame when he created the Clockwork Radio will crank up the volume on innovation when he joins Professor James Hayton of Newcastle University at the fourth inspirational event in this ‘Science of…’ series.
The events which merge science, business and personal development have proved a real winner with the region’s business community and this one promises to be a real highlight.
24-26 February
Newcastle venue tbc
Calling all people interested in service design and customer experience! Over the weekend of 24-26 FebruaryNewcastle will take part in an event taking place in cities all over the world! The event is open to designers from all disciplines, students, academics, business people and customers. In a spirit of experimentation, innovation, co-operation and friendly competition, teams will have less than 48 hours to develop and prototype completely new services inspired by a shared theme.
At the end of the weekend, the collection of brand new services will be published to the world.
DESIGN MEANS BUSINESS CONFERENCE
20-21 MARCH 2011
‘Design Means Business’ is a national conference designed to communicate and advance the value and benefits of design to businesses and the wider community.
Over two days, the conference aims to inspire and support businesses to engage with design practices and practitioners through passionate keynote speakers and interactive Workshops and Master classes.
The seventh consecutive Design Event festival took place over 14-18 October 2011 with over 26 different events, exhibitions, toursand installations. To find out more click the title above.
MASTERCLASS IN CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS
28 September at Newcastle Central Library, 9-12
Shan Preddy will be delivering a series of Business Development Masterclasses aimed at the communications, design and advertising sectors - read more, click on the link above.
9 June, 7pm at Live Theatre
This quick fire presentation night should be lots of fun! Click on the link above to find out who will be there.
TALK: TROIKA AND SIMON 'SANKY' SANKARAYYA
This event has taken place but the audio of the talk is available via the link above.
