Creative Cuppa Seminar Series (CCSS)
Creative Cuppa is a long-term student-staff research seminar series physically in association with the Department of Media and Communication (DMC), at the University of Leicester (UoL). The project aims to bring together researchers and other interested people from different disciplines or knowledge backgrounds, both inside and outside the University, to generate, discuss, and criticize issues related to their experience or understanding of making use of new media technologies. Through the activities, participants are expected to better understand the modern world from a socio-technical perspective; and this is we believe very important and closely relevant to their research and personal development in the future. (For more details, please find here)
Creative Cuppa Online Community
Creative Cuppa has created its online community on Facebook. This is designed to keep the participants connected and updated at all times. In that sense, Creative Cuppa is more like an ongoing process that cross over the boundaries of time and space. So please join us. Everyone is welcome, no matter what background or discipline you are from. You can join in and drop out anytime you want. The most important thing is that you have fun, feel relaxed, and are ready to refresh your minds with loads of new creative ideas. (For more details, please find here)
Upcoming Event: Creative Cuppa 17th Meetup
Theme: Mapping the Creative Cities
Time: 12:00pm - 13:00pm (Wed., 30th June 2010)
Venue: KEN 324 (Ken Edwards Building), University of Leicester
Guest Speaker: Maksim Belitski, Department of Economics, UoL
Event Coordinator: Jin Shang
“Due to the ubiquitous application of information technologies, major cities in the world today are gradually transforming into creative cities, in which contents of the city lives and businesses are creatively mediated in the new forms of existence. Therefore, how to measure creative cities and what is the role of creative cities as a centre of innovation becomes an important issue in front of urban economists. Quantitative methods provide more food for thought in analysing creative cities, their ’size’ and their impact on innovation. Our research deals with 377 European cities”. (For more details, please find here)
Recent updates: Learning Futures Festival Online 2010
<7–14 January 2010> Beyond Distance welcomes you to participate in our Fifth International Conference under the title of Learning Futures. This year’s event will be exclusively online so you can take part from wherever you want and at whatever time suits you! We may recognise ‘too late’ the impact of innovation … because it may shake up sustaining (even good) practice … or be too risky … too challenging … too difficult … unproven. Therefore, to greet the second decade of the 21st century, we invite you to explore positive disruption for learning from a variety of worldwide perspectives and themes. (For more details, please find here)
