PICNIC: the annual three-day festival that blurs the lines between creativity, science, technology and business
"The world around us is changing fast, and not all the changes are positive. We're facing the biggest natural, social and economic challenges our world has ever seen. We've addressed some of these issues in the past, but the days of just talking are over. It's time to take action." Picnic Network
As part of PICNIC '10 in Amsterdam this September, Culturemondo are hosting thier 6th International Rountable PLUS running a series of three unique debates that pick up on the key theme of the festival - 'Redesign the World' and consider it from the perspective of the cultural heritage and arts sector.
Come and join the Culturemondo folk who are all developing, building and running online cultural services around the world and help us explore some of the issues that we feel are changing the way we engage our online audiences and develop digital services for them:
- Cultural Criticism in the Age of New Journalism (Wednesday 22nd)
- Beyond Tourism: Future Directions for Mobile Cultural Content (Thursday 23rd)
- Opening the Vault: Cloud Culture and New Business Models (Friday 24th)
Speakers include a mix of international cultural thinkers, policy makers and activists including:
- Charles Leadbeater (supported by Counterpoint, British Council)
- Soenke Zehle
- Walter Amerika
- Harry Verwaaijen
- David Vogt
- Seb Chan
- Gilian Schrofer
- Mike Edson
- Raymond van den Boogaard
- Diana Krabbendam
- Michelle Kasperczak.
In the evening of Thursday 23rd you can also sign up for an unique mobile tour of the city with Juha van t zelfde.
Following the three workshops will be the 6th International Culturemondo Roundtable. This one day event will take an intensive, practical and user-focussed approach to connecting practice and policy.
To register your interest and find out more about how to attend the FREE Culturemondo 6th Roundtable (Saturday 25th) email jane(at)culture24.org.uk
To sign up to receive information about Culturemondo and its events, join the Culturemondo googlegroup.
To find out more about the wider PICNIC festival and book tickets click here.
PICNIC are offering a 15% discount to all Culturemondo folk, just enter the discount code: culturemondo15 at check out.
Supported by:
The Culturemondo network is supported by:
TELDAP, the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program.
