Mapping Creativity with Manchester’s Beacon
Posted on 25. Oct, 2008 by Chi-chi Ekweozor in Inspired, Social Media Strategies
This week I’ve been working with one of the finalists of the Manchester Beacon Mapping Creativity competition.
Mapping Creativity is a £25K commission “for an interactive project that drives Manchester’s collective creativity.”
Manchester Beacon is part of a nationwide project to support public engagement throughout the UK.
From the Public Engagement website:
The Beacons for Public Engagement project is one of the biggest initiative ever launched to support public engagement throughout the UK.
Funded by the UK higher education funding councils, Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Wellcome Trust, it has a simple goal: achieving a more joined up and strategic approach to public engagement.
Alex Hough, whose Delicious-based project entry made the final four shortlist approached me earlier in the week to assist with his team’s entry.
Alex’s work, proposal which has received support from Paul Carruthers who is affiliated with the Manchester Digital Development Agency’s (MDDA) Institute for Social Media project, a joint venture with the Manchester Business School, centres around using social bookmarking to enable knowledge sharing amongst various stakeholders in the wider Manchester community, from grass roots community organisations to businesses and universities.
The Delicious project, now renamed which can also be described as ‘Local Links for Local People’ is a joint initiative has been developed in partnership with Trafford Council’s Voice of BME in Trafford.
We’re pretty busy getting our pitch ready for the final stage of the Mapping Creativity competition, a public pitching session which takes place on Thursday 30th October, 12.30 – 2.30pm at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Mapping Creativity is a social media project in its own right with Thursday’s pitches being filmed and put up for the public vote, both offline and online.
Interesting work, certainly.
I particularly like how Mapping Creativity places Manchester at the forefront of using social media to affect social change in the UK.
What do you think?
UPDATE: Alex Hough has alerted me to a number of slight inaccuracies in my earlier post and I have corrected them as above.
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- Sheffield Melts Creativity – Melt 2008 Inspiration Session – Part 2
- Sheffield Melts Creativity – Melt 2008 Inspiration Session – Part 4
- Sheffield Melts Creativity – Melt 2008 Inspiration Session – Part 3
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