Please find attached details of Knowledge Futures, a unique conference
to explore the movement and transfer of knowledge which will be held at
Goldsmiths, University of London as part of the Inside Out Festival.
Knowledge Futures
Friday October 16th (2 - 5.30 and 7-10pm) and Saturday 17th October 2009
(9.30-13.30)
The Great Hall and Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths, New Cross.
2 day conference £50 (£25 cons) Friday evening only £10 (£5 cons).
With evening live sound event curated by Alex McLean, co founder of Slub
and Dorkbot, London supported by Sound and Music (Sonic Arts) and Sound
Practice Research centre.
For further information on the Friday night lineup, please visit the
Transfer website http://slab.org/transfer/
Knowledge transfer describes how knowledge and ideas move between the
knowledge sources to the potential users of that knowledge. Currently,
the UK Research Councils encourage knowledge transfer by supporting
schemes and activities to transfer good ideas, research results and
skills between, for example, universities and other research
organisations, business, the third sector, public sector and/or the
wider community. Partnership and collaboration are seen as essential to
this process and impact on current creative practices across the arts
and humanities. The conference is interested in how institutional
frameworks create and participate in the conditions for soft knowledge
transfer and supportive environments in which people and their
practices, knowledgeâ??s and values can be shared and disseminated
The conference will be addressed by Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Warden,
Goldsmiths who will provide a provocative update to his Knowledge
transfer without widgets: the challenge of the creative economy,
delivered at RSA, Leeds in 2006.
Confirmed presentations and speakers also include, Andrew Shoben
(Greyworld), Mick Grierson (Performing and Creative Arts Fellowship,
AHRC), Julie Freeman (resident artist at Microsystems and Nanotechnology
Centre, Cranfield University and Welcome Trust), Tim Eastop ( Director
of Creative Campus Initiative and Co-Director of Method, the Artists
Leadership scheme on behalf of the Cultural Leadership Programme), Clare
Reddington (Director, iShed and The Pervasive Media Studio), Professor
Frank Bond (Head of Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths), Adnan Hadzi
(PhD Goldsmiths), Alexandra Hodby (AHRC CDA Goldsmiths & Manchester
University), Janis Jefferies (Professor of Visual Arts and Artistic
Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios at Goldsmiths).
Partners include LCACE, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Greyworld, Sound and
Music, iShed.
