Cultural Arts and Technology Hubs Workshop

December 2011

Introductions and objectives

The team:

Dave BriggsFraser Henderson

Tim WilsonKind of Digital

Nicola RadfordLCC

Objectives:

1. Provide digital support to develop coastal arts (etc)

businesses

2. Develop hubs as key part of local digital infrastructure

Purpose of today

What do you understand by the term “digital”?

Icebreaker

Introducing the project

1. Establishing coastal digital hubs2. European funded through LCC /

ERDF paperwork3. Part of Coastal Communities

work4. Element of Online Revolution in

Lincolnshire

Our plans

Work Plan

• Build capacity

• Connect the hubs

• Learning events for SMEs

• One-to-one advice and support

Phase One

• Explore opportunities and options

• Demonstrator events and exhibits

• Consult on needs

• Develop hub proposals

Phase Two

• Futures development

• Install equipment

• Help with use and sustainPhase Three

December 2011

January to March 2012

May to August 2012

What kind of digital?

Success Criteria

• Number of SMEs engaging with hubs

• (distribution by sector)

• Hours support delivered

• Website traffic

Raise awareness, realise potential of

digital technologies. Long term

economic benefits

How we will deliver:

Events, workshops and trainingDevelopment of hub technology

Online support through digitalLincs

How you can help:

Tell us what you need!

What we mean by digital in the arts, culture and heritage…

Times are changing… FAST

We live in times

of huge

unpredictability

…. If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s 4th largest…..///

Power of Creativity"Look into the toolbox -

creativity is the only tool we have left ... and it's important to see it in the round: creativity is a new drug, or a better engine for cars - we shouldn't get trapped

in a narrow definition."(Lord Puttnam).

Old media: lean back

New media – lean forward

New media – lean forward

The Disruptive Power of Digital

on Creativity

Some examples

www.furtherfield.org

‘The Digital and the Physical worlds are colliding’

Adrian Hon, The Daily Telegraph, 14 February 2011

So What is Our Strategy?

Understand the DNA of Place

e.g. Identity, talent, cultural ecology and landscape, creative economy, mainstream economy….

Lincolnshire

East Lindsay

A place ofbusiness

A place ofleisure

A place ofinnovation

A place ofcreativity

The place tobe and be seen

A place of exchange

Creative places are central to global competitiveness

Creatively Disrupting PlacesA Fabric of Infrastructure

Quirky

Inspirational

New

Existing

Production

Consumption

Let’s try something

Exercise: Digital aspirationsHopes FearsWants

Next steps…

digitalLincs.com

Evaluation:Tell us what you need!

ERDF forms:dull but necessary!

Many thanks for your time and contributions!