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31 July 08

Creative Dorset Online

In 2006-7, Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy scoped, designed and delivered the organisational model and business plan for the Creative Dorset Agency, a specialist body established to support the creative economy in the beautiful County of Dorset in South West England. Creative Dorset focuses on providing specialist support to creative businesses and organisations, developing networks across this largely rural area, and brokering opportunities for culture and creativity to play a role across agendas such as cultural tourism, planning and inward investment.

To view their activities, visit:
www.creativedorset.co.uk

28 July 08

Hackney Design Awards 2008 - open for nomination!

Hackney Council has started the search for the best designed completed buildings and spaces in the borough, with the launch of the Hackney Design Awards 2008.

Nominations for buildings or designed spaces within Hackney that showcase high quality contemporary design are open from 23 July to 30 September. Anyone can make a nomination, including architects who have completed a scheme and residents or visitors who have spotted an outstanding building in Hackney.

www.hackney.gov.uk/ep-design-awards-2008.htm

24 July 08

Creative Cities and Regions seminar in Oporto

Following the "Creative Cities and Regions" seminar which took place in Oporto earlier this week, a video extract from the post-seminar interviews can be found at

ww1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?headline=98&visual=25&article=355851&tema=27

Aprecíe!

22 July 08

Culture and Creativity in Oporto and Northern Portugal: Grand Finale!

Our work in Oporto is coming to a close this week, with the final seminar "Creative Cities and Regions" to be held on 23rd July.

The seminar will take place at the Serralves Foundation where, among others, Tom Fleming and Charles Landry will be discussing the creative economy's main challenges and drivers.

www.serralves.pt/

18 July 08

A Place For Words

What has creative writing got to do with regeneration? Why would a planner, developer or architect pay a novelist or a poet to work alongside them to inform, animate and critique the process of place-making? Is there A Place For Words?

Find out!
www.urbanwords.org.uk/aplaceforwords/index.html