Knowledge Futures
Event:The Knowledge futures conference was held at Goldsmiths on the 16th and 17th October 2009.
See a clip of Mick Greirson performing at the conference:
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. This 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, knowledge’s and values can be shared and disseminated.
The conference will be addressed by Professor Geoffrey Crossick, Warden of Goldsmiths who will provide a provocative update to his presentation of: Knowledge transfer without widgets: the challenge of the creative economy, delivered at the 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, Creative Campus Initiative and consultant to artists), Professor Frank Bond (Head of the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths and Clare Reddington (Director, iShed and The Pervasive Media Studio).