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Finding the people with the skills needed to help realise ideas can be extremely difficult, especially when you lack the necessary network of contacts. The Creative Co-Op is an enabler for all young creatives, allowing them to source collaboration from amongst their peer group.
Max - 01/14/2012
TILT designs inspiring and enabling spaces through the end users, actively involving them in all stages of the process, from the initial design to the actual making of the space. TILT believes that spaces both public and private need to better reflect the needs of their users and this can be achieved through effective collaborative design.
Dermot - 03/29/2011
Do you have an idea on how to improve your neighbourhood or your local services? Do you want to win the chance of getting people to turn your idea into reality?
Noel - 09/29/2011
Organization : Enspiral
Role : Connector
Interests : action, activism, apps, asset transfer, change, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-working, collaboration, collaborative consumption, communication, communities, communities of practice, communications, community development, community engagement, culture, design, design thinking, Conscious Consumers, disruption, digital, e-learning, bio-mimicry, energy, enterprise, entrepreneurship, enviroment, filmmaking, graphic design, infographics, innovation, innovators, inspiration, internet solutions, local, local food systems, open innovation, open enterprise, organic, participative design., community sector, emancipation, regeneration, service delivery, social, social business, social change, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social gaming, social innovation, social media, social venture, sustainability, technology, tech, transition towns, transformation, user experience design, volunteering, web design, web development, youth
Organization : Marsh Farm Outreach
Role : Director
Interests : activism, affordable homeownership for low income households, asset transfer, big society, catalytic social change, changing the way we grow and manufacture our food., change, citizen engagement/voice, citizen engagement, citizenship, civic engagement, civil rights, collaboration, co-working, collaborative, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, communities, community activism, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community development trusts, community engagement, community engagement; design; youth leadership; personal development; sustainability, community hosts, community management / ownership, community media, community organisation, community solutions, conscious consumers, doing more with less, emancipation, enterprise development, grassroots projects, grassroots projects to empower communities, helping people into work, inclusion, innovation for inclusion, local economic development, local economies, new economics, organisation, outreach, participative design., participatory budgeting, permaculture, public and voluntary and community sectors, renewable energy, self education, social business, social change, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social inclusion, social innovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social innvoation, social interaction, unemployment, urban co-production, volunteer, volunteering, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship
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Organization :
Role : Projects
Interests : action, and social change, anthropological studies, anthropology, apps, app store, art, arts, arts education, arts funding, asset transfer, big society, career guidance, challenge competition, change, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, city space, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-working, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, commissioning, commons, communications, communities, communities of practice, community, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community management / ownership, community mapping, community media, community solutions, complexity, connecting social innovators with great resources, consumer research, consumption, creative industries, creativity, crowdsourcing, culture, culture change, democracy, design, design thinking, digital tech, disruption, doing more with less, empowerment, enabling spaces, empty buildings, engagement, entertainment and community events, entrepreneurship, event facilitation, forecasting, get togethers, government, graphic design, helping people into work, high/low/sub/all culture, human services, incentive structures, innovation, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, innovators, intercultural communication, local, local economies, local food systems, localgov, local government, local government communities, london, london 2012, mapping, mutual education, networks, network society, new forms and styles of work, nudge, olympic legacy, opengov, open government, open innovation, open source sharing, organically grown public services, our society, participation, participative design., participatory budgeting, politics, poverty, public engagement, public participation, public policy, public sector, public service, public sector innovation, public service reform, public services, public spaces, public value, real world and online engagement, service design, shared understanding, social app store, social business, social change, social design and thinking, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, social interaction, social network analysis, social networking, social networks, social practices, social reporting, visual thinking
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Organization : Boston City Hall
Role : Co-Chair, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Interests : work, 21stcc, access city, accessibility, action, adaptive technology, affordable homeownership for low income households, ageing well, agencies, and social change, a new govxo-driven republic!, anthropological studies, anthropology, apis, arts education, arts, app store, apps, assistive equipment, assistive technology, authentic collaboration and uncommon sense, autism, big society, change, channel development, children, cities, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, city space, civic engagement, co-design, co-creation, collaboration, co-working, co-production, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, web development, web design, web 2.0, visual thinking, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, user experience design, to build the skills and capacity needed for fastand social changebig societybusiness supportbusiness valuechangecitizen engagementco-creationco-productioncollaborationcollaborative governancecommissioningcommunities of practicecommunity solutionsconnecting social innovators with great resourcescreativityculture changeenterpriseinclusion accessibilityinnovation problem solvinginnovatorsopen innovationparticipationpubic policypublic sector innovationsocial businesssocial enterprisesocial enterprise and giving communities voicesocial innovation and innovative policy makingstartup consultingusing ideas and evidence to drive social innovationyoung peopleaction, tech, technology, startups, start ups, startup consulting
Organization : feelancer
Role : listener/learner/facilitator
Interests : appreciative inquiry, apps, asset map, careers training and education, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, citizenship, city space, civic empowerment and deliberative democracy, co-creation, co-design, co-learining, co-working, coaching, collaboration, commons, communities of practice, community development, community mapping, community media, complexity, contemporary art and culture, counselling, creating, data visualisation, design-thinking, development (personal; efficacy; confidence; skills), dancing, education, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, hackspace, healing arts, interaction design, lifelong learning, life skills, life development, local, mapping, mental health, micro-volunteering, micro enterprise, motivation, neighbourhood, new forms and styles of work, open government, organisational behaviour, participative design., performing arts, personal development, pop up shops, prototyping, service design, social algorithms, social enterprises, social innovation camp, social work, sustainable social innovation and design research. specialising in consumer behaviours online and providing new collaborative environments for both corporations and consumers. following the belief that the more complex the world becomes the more creative we need to be and that for a sustainable future and business environment what is required is the ability to be creative, temporary accommodation, town centres, transparency, visualisation, volunteerism, wellbeing
Organization : Centrifuge Consulting ltd
Role : Director
Interests : action, ageing well, agencies, agile, adaptive technology, anthropological studies, apps, arts, arts education, arts funding, asset transfer, assistive technology, befriending, big society, bureaucracy, business startups, business support, business value, catalytic change, change, children, children services, cities, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, citizen journalism, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-working, collaboration, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collaborative technologies, commissioning, communications, communities, communities of practice, community, community assets / transfer, community buildings, community development, community development trusts, community management / ownership, community mapping, community media, community solutions, community profit, connecting social innovators with great resources, consumer research, council, creative industries, creativity, crowdsourcing, cultural industries, culture, culture change, current affairs, customer services, democracy, design, design-thinking, design for all, design thinking, design thinking and project management, diagnostics, digital inclusion, disabled people, economic development, eco projects, editing, education, empowerment, enterprise, entrepreneurship, general innovation around making the environment more accessible for everyone, getting fit, gettogethers, get togethers, government, health, health and wellbeing, healthcare, helping people into work, heritage/history, homelessness, human services, hyper local content, hyper local resources, ideas, incentive structures, inclusion, inclusion accessibility, independent living, innovation, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, innovators, intercultural communication, international development, kids, knowledge management, lean, lifelong learning, local, local economies, local government, local government communities, mapping, marketing, networks, network society, network, new forms and styles of work, new technology, nudge, older adults, older people, older people services, online consultations, online learning, open data, open government, open innovation, open source, open source sharing, organically grown public services, organisation, our scoiety, our society, participation, ownership, participative design., participatory budgeting, people., planning, politics, poverty, private sector, private spaces, project management, pubic policy, public, public administration improvement, public engagement, public libraries, public participation, public policy, public sector, public sector innovation, public service, public spaces, public spending data, public value, real world and online engagement, refugees, regional economies, rural, schools, scotland, scrutiny, service, service design, shared understanding, social, social app store, social business, socialbysocial, social care, social change, social change., social design and thinking, social enterprise, social enterprise and giving communities voice, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, socialinnovation, social innovation and innovative policy making, social interaction, social media, social network analysis, social networking, social networks, social practices, social reporting, socialreporting co-design engagement networks, social venture, social venturing, society, software development, startups, strategy, sustainability, teachers, technology, third sector, to build the skills and capacity needed for fast, to build the skills and capacity needed for fastand social changebig societybusiness supportbusiness valuechangecitizen engagementco-creationco-productioncollaborationcollaborative governancecommissioningcommunities of practicecommunity solutionsconnecting social innovators with great resourcescreativityculture changeenterpriseinclusion accessibilityinnovation problem solvinginnovatorsopen innovationparticipationpubic policypublic sector innovationsocial businesssocial enterprisesocial enterprise and giving communities voicesocial innovation and innovative policy makingstartup consultingusing ideas and evidence to drive social innovationyoung peopleaction, transformation, unemployment, universities, urban planning, urban spaces, usability, user experience and usability, user experience design, user involvement, using ideas and evidence to drive social innovation, volunteering, volunteerism, visual thinking, walking, web design, work, young people, youth
Email : dermot.egan@studiotilt.com
Organization : TILT
Role : Founder
Interests : Co-design, Space Design, Co-Working, Participative Design., Community Mapping
Email : tech4health@gmail.com
Organization : tech4health
Role : Director and Occupational Therapist
Interests : access to the web as a publishing arena for elder, adaptive technology, adoption of innovations, ageing well, ageing, allotments, agile, applications, apps, aspirations, befriending, change agents, citizen engagement, civic empowerment and deliberative democracy, civic engagement, co-creation, co-design, co-production, co-working, coaching, collaborative, collective intelligence, commons, connecting people, connectivity, coproduction, creating shared value, digital, digital inclusion: esp. middle-aged upwards, digital innovation, digital literacy, digital technology, disruption, educational technology, elder, entepreneur, ethical business practice, game-changing, grassroots projects to empower communities, hackday, hackspace, hack, hackathon, harnessing public sector skills for community improvement, health, healthcare, health and wellbeing, inclusion accessibility, inclusive design, innovation - through the use of technology., innovation and team work, innovation for inclusion, innovative social applications, interface design for older people - inclusive design, job creation, lean, mentoring, mobile working, networking for grandparents, older people, older adults, participation, participative design., participatory decision making, peer2peer, professional, public and third sector innovation, public sector innovation, risk analysis, service delivery, service delivery online, service design, service redesign, service improvement, social business, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social inclusion, social media, social networking, social return on investment, startup, startups, strategy, telecare, text message services, usability, user experience and usability, user involvement, volunteering, web accessibility, web 2.0, wellbeing, crochet, MOOC, Massive Open Online Course, distributed, networked, virtual learning environment, distributed networked virtual learning environment
Email : ben@brightone.org.uk
Organization : Bright One
Role : Founding Director
Interests : applications, apps, big society, branding, business startups, business support, business value, careers, career guidance, challenge competition, change, city space, citizenship, co-design, co-creation, co-working, co-production, collaborative, collaborative consumption, collaborative decision making, collaborative governance, collective intelligence, collaborative technologies, communication, communications, communities, community, community engagement, community management / ownership, community media, community profit, community organisation, community sector, digital inclusion, enterprise, entrepreneurship, fundraising, funding, inclusive business and architecture, innovation platforms, innovation problem solving, innovators, inspiration, internet solutions, marketing solutions, media, marketing, london, mobile, open enterprise, open innovation, open source, philanthropy, social, social audio and online media, social business, social change, social enterprise, social enterprise/ start-ups/international development, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship, social gaming, social innovation, social innvoation, social media, social venture, social venturing, startup, startups, start ups, startup consulting, strategy, tech, technology, third sector, volunteerism, volunteering
Organization : Events Northern Ltd
Role :
Interests : ageing well, apps, app store, arts, arts funding, branding, business support, business value, challenge competition, citizen engagement, citizen engagement/voice, classrooms, co-creation, co-working, co-production, collaboration, commissioning, communications, community development, community media, connecting social innovators with great resources, council, creative industries, creativity, cultural industries, culture, cycling, doing more with less, event facilitation, health, health and wellbeing, healthcare, innovation, innovators, mental health, networks, new technology, olympic legacy, participation, private sector, pubic policy, public libraries, reading, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social media