2011 – Forum d’Avignon, C’n’B, Picnic & Frankfurt Book Fair

“Investing in Culture”, “Urban Futures”, “The Future Of Entertainment”, “Transmedia Storytelling“ – this were some of the main topics of this years conferences and festivals 2010LAB attended as a media partner to report on current discussions about culture and creativity.

netz.macht.kultur, Berlin
The 6th politico-cultural congress netz.macht.kultur in Berlin discussed the issue of culture politics in the digital society. 2010LAB was on location and talked with the speakers:
Creative Commons // Remix culture and copyright law // Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schulze: Where is the spark in science?

C’n’B (Creativity & Business Convention), Cologne

2010LAB visited the second C’n’B convention in Cologne to collect opinions and general atmosphere. The main issue: New (digital) ways for business entertainment and enterprises.

Watch the videos:

Day 1 // Day 2 // The digital value of an idea vs. The value of an digital idea (feat. Prof. Dieter Gorny and Andreas Gebhard)  // What is the future of television? (feat.  Konstantin Neven DuMont, Zach Klein and Stephan Balzer)  // Discussing digital business models // Vimeo founder Zach Klein discussing exit strategies for young entrepreneurs.

PICNIC Festival, Amsterdam

This years PICNIC festival chose the topic “Urban futures”. Again it presented brilliant speakers and ideas and impressed with a developing own festival city on the former NDSM shipyard in northern Amsterdam. 2010LAB reported about the festival’s trends and interviewed the organizers, vistors and creative and innovative minds.

Impressions: Day 1  // Day 2 (with video) // Day 3

More PICNIC feature videos on 2010LAB: PICNIC Festival 2011: Not a conference like any other // US sociologist Saskia Sassen and British city urbanist and publicist Charles Landry in the interview // How can we govern tomorrow's urban space? // The Open Data Movement

Tim Campbell, chairman of the Board for Urban Age answers the 2010LAB questionnaire  // Architect Kunlé Adeyemi answers the 2010LAB questionnaire

Book Fair, Frankfurt

How will stories be told in the future? The participants of the SPARKS conference – the digital initiative of the Frankfurt book fair 2011 – dealt with that exciting question. Watch our video.

Forum d’Avignon

Forum d´Avignon, the fourth: From 17th to 19th November 2011, high-profile experts and decision-makers from culture, business, politics and the media met in Avignon. The forum sees itself as think tank dedicated to culture. Watch our feature videos: Think Tank Culture Train  // Where Ideas meet  // Old megapixel masters at first hand – Google’s ingenious Art Project at Forum d'Avignon