How to create your own Innovation Lab

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As our final post before the New Year, here is a little gift from everyone here at festivalslab. We get a lot of people ask us about the thinking and approaches which go behind this quite unique programme of work and so we thought it might be fun to summarise it all together in a little manifesto.

So here is our quick guide to creating not own innovation lab…not the operational elements since that will be so different for different contexts…but the ways of thinking and do-ing that is the basis of all that we are do.

And passionate advocates of prototyping that we are, this is a work in progress and we shall publish another one in 2012 at the completion of our first two years so please let us know what you think and how we might make it better.

Happy holidays and good tidings to innovators one and all!

Why the festivals are like the web: Video

More videos of the team talking I’m afraid.  Here’s me talking about some of the festivalslab themes from before it was officially announced – and he’s speaking at the Shift Happens conference in York (July 5/6 2010).

Besides from being out of date (e.g. it announces the Geek in Residence position that Ben now of course fills), the most interesting thing in the video is an exploration of how the festivals are like the web.  And you can see my notes and slides from that talk here.

If that sounds interesting and you can bear tenuous introductions then it might be worth a look!:

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You can see more videos from Shift Happens here.  My favourite presentation was probably Kaye Elling’s excellent piece on female games developers.

Ben at TechMeetup

Ben was at last week’s TechMeetup to talk about festivalslab to start a conversations about how best to engage with the local developer and start-up community here in Edinburgh with our work.  Apologies that it’s a bit dark but here’s the video from the event.

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Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab Launch 13.07.10

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Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab Launch interviews