Andrew Erskine - The Unpredictable City at #disruptbrum, 24/03/15
The unpredictable city: how smart places are unlocking creativity, innovation and serendipity
At next week’s #disruptbrum event, Andrew Erskine will be talking on how cities are helping to drive the creative and digital technology through new networks and spaces as well as the role of culture and higher education in a time of economic disruption and innovation.
Bio
Andrew works as a consultant to governments, businesses, universities and cultural organisations in the UK an internationally . His main focus is on innovation and the creative economy, with an especial interest in culture, heritage, entrepreneurship, the business of culture, knowledge exchange and transfer, creative places and spaces.
Core to his work is the exploration of creativity and its transformative effect on all aspects of our lives. In particular he is interested in how individual and collective creative capital can be unlocked through new uses of technology, approaches to learning and skills, improved public services and organisational development.
Andrew is a Senior Associate of Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy.
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About the event - Disruptive Spaces for the new Creative Economy
Hosted as part of Birmingham Digital Week, we welcome you to one of Birmingham’s most newest and talked-about spaces, Birmingham Open Media (BOM), for a one day event all about the future of cities and what is making the new creative economy tick.
Birmingham is a city buzzing with imagination and experimentation. Its emerging creative and technology networks contribute not only to the city’s efficiency and sustainability; they are also what make Brum so unpredictable and full of possibility.
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