Sustainable Opportunities Workshop 2011 was organised in collaboration with Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) and Enterprise Europe Network. Our marketing partner is DDB Latvia, supported by co-working space Birojnīca.

Here you can view all of the speakers and presentations that took place on day 1 and download the presentation PDFs for your own personal use!

Guy Robinson’s presentation

Simon O’Rafferty’s presentation

Jonathan Chapman’s presentation

Young Creative Entrepreneur Club (YCE Club) networking event #7 took place on 1st of December, 2011 in co-working space BIROJNĪCA. A lecture, followed by a workshop for selected creative industries professionals welcomed around a 100 participants of diverse backgrounds like music, interactive and digital communications, design, fashion, performing arts, filmmaking and media. This time YCE Club welcomed two experienced professionals Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth from the United Kingdom who have worked across different creative industries. They started as visual artists with their work being exhibited internationally and collected by major institutions including the Tate Gallery and Government Art Collection in the UK. Later on they both entered music industry and have created online and offline campaigns for leading record labels in the UK. YCE Club #7 also hosted Inese Saulaja, YCE Music award 2011 winner, hip-hop artist Gustavo Manager & Copyright Manager of MicRec Publishing.

It was an event to be remembered, have a look at the highlights of the day here!

Young Creative Entrepreneur Club (YCE Club) networking event #6 took place over two days – 29th and 30th of November, 2011, in co-working space BIROJNĪCA during which 40 selected participants – Latvian entrepeneurs, manufacturers and designers, as well as professionals from sustainably and socially responsible fields – participated in lectures, seminars and group work to gather insight into the principles of sustainable design.

Sustainable Opportunities Workshop 2011 was organised in collaboration with Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) and Enterprise Europe Network. Our marketing partner is DDB Latvia, supported by co-working space Birojnīca.

Take look at the highlights of the two day event here.

Venue: Birojnica, Elizabetes iela 83/85, Berga Bazārs, Riga, Latvia LV-1050
December 1^st: 10.30 – 16.30 (lunch break: 12.30 – 13.30)

Venue: Birojnica, Elizabetes iela 83/85, Berga Bazārs, Riga, Latvia LV-1050
November 29^th: 14.30 – 18.30
November 30^th: 08:30 – 17.30 (lunch break: 12.30 – 13.30)

The workshop is designed for 40 participants – Latvian entrepreneurs, manufacturers and designers, as well as professionals from sustainably and socially responsible fields – who over the course of two days will take part in the 12 Hour Creative Challenge. Participation in this challenge and the workship will give insight into the definition of sustainable designt, its types and principles, aims and application in entrepreneurship. Additionally, the participants will gather a large set of skills and knowledge about the newest tendencies in sustainable design in the UK as well as the world, various case studies from the UK sustainable design enterprises and information on strategies and principles of sustainable desight and how to apply these to small and medium sized enterprises.

The main topics and speakers:

“Sustainability: Product Design and De-materialisation”
Guy Robinson, director of sustainable product design consultancy Sprout Design, will introduce the concept of sustainability and how it has changed over the course of time. He will talk about Sprout Design’s role and experience in sustainable innovation. You will find out about the concept of de-materialisation illustrated with examples and strategies you could try yourself.

“Redefining ‘Good Design’ in an unsustainable age“
Dr.Jonathan Chapman, sustainable design theorist, consultant and educator, argues that the sustainability crisis is a crisis of behaviour, and not one simply of energy and materials alone, as is often assumed. Chapman maps a deeper engagement with the sustainability agenda – grappling with the knotty problems of design, materiality, human behaviour and sustainability to provide timely reassessments of ethics and design in an age of over-consumption.

“Welsh story“
Simon O’Rafferty is the head of research at the Ecodesign Centre in Wales, one of a handful of countries that has sustainable development built into its constitution. He is also the co-founder of social design network thinkARK. Simon will discuss the role of designers in sustainability. He will share personal insights and perspectives on the issues facing the design and manufacturing industry. He will support these insights by sharing examples of why and how small design-led companies are responding to the challenges of sustainability.

12 HOUR CREATIVE CHALLENGE

Tuesday, 29th November

14:30 – 15:30 Salutation and Ice-breaking activity. Welcome from Birojnīcas, LIAA and British Council. Coffee, tea and refreshments
15:30 – 17:00 Talks by: Guy Robinson (Director, Sprout Design Ltd.) “Sustainability: Product Design and De-materialisation“
Dr.Jonathan Chapman (Sustainable design theorist, consultant and educator, University of Brighton) “Redefining ‘Good Design’ in an unsustainable age“
17:00 – 18:00 Briefing and teaming up (teams are exploring the inner-group expertise, thinking on the brief, positioning themselves and organising resources for the team-work (laptops; photo-and video cameras, memory devices (USB for transferring the presentations to presentation laptop). Experts and advisers are facilitating the process.
18:00 – 18:30 Short mid-presentations, feedback, discussion. Coffee, tea and refreshments

Wednesday, 30th November

8:30 – 9:00 Morning salutation. Coffee, tea and refreshments
9:00 – 9:30 Recap from the Day 1
9:30 – 10:00 Skype talk: Simon O’Rafferty (Senior Research Officer, Ecodesign Centre and co-founder of a creative network thinkARK) on Welsh story
10:00 – 12:30 Concept development in teams, facilitated by experts and advisers
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 16:00 Concept development in teams, facilitated by roaming experts. Preparing presentations
16:00 – 17:15 Team presentations, Pecha Kucha style (20 slides x 20 seconds); Feedback from UK experts
17:15 – 17:30 Summary, evaluation. The prize from Birojnīca.

Registration:
http://liaa.gov.lv/lv/sakumlapa/jaunumi/ilgtspejigs_dizians

Application deadline: November 24th, 5pm. The workshop is designed for 40 participants – Latvian entrepreneurs, manufacturers and designers, as well as professionals from sustainably and socially responsible fields, therefore priority will be given to organisations, enterprises and their representatives whose are of work is directly linked with these areas. Before the event participants will receive a confirmation e-mail from organisers. Event will be held in English and entry will be free of charge.

For more information please contact:
Maija Udre
Young Creative Entrepreneurs Programme Manager
British Council Latvia
Blaumana 5a-2
Riga LV-1011, Latvia
T +371 67504106
M +371 29424646
E maija.udre@britishcouncil.lv
www.creativeeconomy.lv
www.britishcouncil.lv
www.facebook.com/british.council.latvia

Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

Young Creative Entrepreneur Club (YCE Club) networking event #7 will take place on 1st of December, 2011 at Birojnīca, ¼ Satori, Berga Bazārs from 10:30 – till 12:30 followed by workshop for selected creative industries professionals of diverse backgrounds like music, interactive and digital communications, design, fashion, performing arts, filmmaking and media. 

This time YCE Club will welcome two experienced professionals Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth from the United Kingdom who has worked across different creative industries. They started as visual artists with their work being exhibited internationally and collected by major institutions including the Tate Gallery and Government Art Collection in the UK. Later on they both entered music industry and have created online and offline campaigns for leading record labels in the UK. YCE Club #7 will also host Inese Saulaja, YCE Music award 2011 winner, hip-hop artist Gustavo Manager & Copyright Manager of MicRec Publishing. 

JANE POLLARD is Head of Strategy at Beggars Group, the UK’s largest group of independent record labels – Her job is to devise innovative and creative strategies of marketing and promoting the artists including Radiohead, Pixies, The White Stripes, The National, Adele. Jane has won 5 Digital Music Awards and contributed to successfully re-shaping the company’s approach to digital strategy. 

IAIN FORSYTH has worked as Head of Digital at the Mute label for 10 years and recently established himself as an independent consultant to the music industry. Throughout time Ian worked for Mute, he has worked closely with a wide range of artists including Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Moby, Erasure and Richard Hawley. In 2004 he co-founded Live Here Now, a live concert recording distribution company, now a part of Abbey Road Studios. As a consultant, he continues to work with many Mute artists. 

The subject of digital and creative strategies for the entire creative industries nowadays is a core tool for marketing & promoting their work. Therefore Jane and Ian’s expertise and knowledge sharing will be appealing to a wide range of the professionals and entrepreneurs representing creative industries in Latvia. 

PROGRAMME: 

Part 1  

Open lecture / presentation  

10.30  

Welcome by Maija Udre, British Council Latvia Young Creative Entrepreneurs Programme Manager and Rolands Puhovs, Birojnīca representative. 

 10.35  

Inese Saulāja, winner the International Young Music Entrepreneurs Award 2011 will share her learning points and highlights acquired during her UK music industry tour, which she undertook in May 2011. In the UK Inese visited The Great Escape festival in Brighton as well as Soundcloud, Roundhouse offices in London among many others. 

10.50 

SKYPE call 1 – Mexico, YCE Music award ’11 winner Camilo Lara 

SKYPE call 2 – Russia YCE Music award ’11 winner Yury Marychev 

11.20 

Presentation from Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, www.iainandjane.com 

For the past 10 years Iain & Jane have each worked in the music industry specialising in digital and creative ideas that span on and offline. However, they come from a visual arts and filmmaking background, working together and exhibiting internationally. In their presentation they will discuss their approaches to the creation and distribution of “creative content”, and the shared principles that underpin their groundbreaking work. 

12.20 

      Q&A session. Moderator Guna Zucika, Brainstorm records  

12.30  Networking with coffee & tea 

Free time for lunch break  

Part 2 

Workshop for invited participants only   

13.30  (10 min.) 

Workshop brief by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. 

Problem solving task and/or challenge allocation to groups. Participants are split into groups of five with mixed professional backgrounds. The task is to develop digital marketing activity for chosen project. 

13.50   Work in groups, supervised and monitored by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard 

15.00   Project presentations. Each group has 5 minutes. Immediate feedback from Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Guna Zucika, Maija Ūdre. 

15.45   Pause / Announcement of the winning project. Prize from Birojnīca. 

16.00   Networking with coffee & tea 

16.30   End of event 

REGISTRATION

Online registration form and additional information can be found here.

Deadline for registration is November 25^th, 5pm. Please, make reservation in advance as the numbers of the seats is limited. British Council will send confirmation e-mail to participants. The language of the event is English without translation.   

Young Creative Entrepreneurs Programme 

Young Creative Entrepreneurs Club is a part of the wider British Council’s Creative and Cultural Economy programme, which recognises the centrality of creative entrepreneurs to the development of a sustainable and competitive creative economy. They provide the essential bridge between talent and consumers; they navigate the space between creative ideas and the market. This programme aims to identify them, support them, create opportunities for commercial and collaborative exchange and encourage ongoing networking 

YCE Club brings together creative entrepreneurs across different creative sectors and creates an open platform of opportunities for cultural and business exchange as well as networking between Latvia and the United Kingdom. Programme consists of different seminars, master classes, guest lectures and workshops with an aim to create opportunities for commercial and collaborative exchange and encourage ongoing networking. Each year within the programme British Council launches Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards for entrepreneurs working in creative sectors. 

For more information please contact: 

Maija Udre 

Young Creative Entrepreneurs Programme Manager 

British Council Latvia 

Blaumana 5a-2

Riga LV-1011, Latvia
T +371 67504106

M +371 29424646

E maija.udre@britishcouncil.lv 

www.creativeeconomy.lv

IYDE award 2011 winner Elīna Dobele, www.zofa.lv

IYDE 2011 award winner Elīna Dobele, a founder and owner of the footwear design company ZoFa www.zofa.lv will travel to the UK for a one week all-expenses paid industry programme (September 15th to 25th ) to develop opportunities for commercial and collaborative work in future.   

The winners for this year’s Fashion and Design award represent a wide range of countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Estonia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Vietnam and the UAE.    

Meet other IYDE 2011 finalists here.   

UK TOUR PROGRAMME   

UK TOUR PROGRAMME   

Friday 16 September 2011   

Arrivals into London
Welcome dinner by British Council
Justin Smith Esquire Exhibition (TBC)   

Saturday 17 September 2011   

1000-1400: Meeting at British Council
Welcome by the British Council. Brief through the programme in more detail. This will be an opportunity for YCE Design and Fashion Award finalists to introduce themselves, their backgrounds and experience and do an informal 10 minute presentation of their work.   

Venue Information
British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, www.britishcouncil.org     

1500 onwards:
London Fashion Week Exhibition   

Over 150 designer brands are set to showcase their spring/summer 2012 collections at the Exhibition at London Fashion Week, September 16th – 20th 2011.   

Venue Information
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA, www.londonfashionweek.co.uk     

Sunday 18 September 2011   

Free day to visit London Fashion Week and London Design Festival events.   

1730: Blow PR Visit, Specialist PR for the Fashion & Lifestyle Industry www.blow.co.uk     

Part of Vauxhall Fashion Scout, www.vauxhallfashionscout.com    

Monday 19 September 2011   

0900-1100: WGSN Meeting (Cher Potter) – Trend Forecast Session   

WGSN   

WGSN is a leading online trend forecasting, analysis and research tool providing creative and business intelligence to the apparel, style and retail industries. Established in 1998, WGSN’s authority is incomparable. A team of over 150 senior fashion and design practitioners and renowned journalists continually travel the globe to deliver insight and creative inspiration, real-time retail coverage, seasonal trend analysis, consumer research and business information to 38,000 users worldwide.   

www.wgsn.com    

Cher Potter, Editor, Creative direction / Macro trends   

Cher analyses sociopolitical and cultural trends in relation to design, and develops the global macro trends for WGSN’s Creative Direction. Having studied and worked in the UK, Europe, Africa, China and Japan, she has extensive experience of global design cultures. She writes regularly for arts, fashion and lifestyle magazines and is the culture editor on Tank magazine’s newly launched Because magazine. Cher is a visiting lecturer in ‘Fashion and the City’ at London’s prestigious Architectural Association. She obtained a degree in Philosophy before training as a designer at the Fashion Design School in Antwerp, and she joined WGSN after working with design luminaries Hussein Chalayan and Giles Deacon   

Venue Information
British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, www.britishcouncil.org    

12.00-13.00: Master-class with Paul Smith 

Exclusive meeting with Sir Paul Smith with the chance to ask questions about his globally successful brand and career as one of the UK’s most successful fashion entrepreneur. 

Starting his career in fashion aged 15 with a job as an errand boy in a Nottingham clothing warehouse, his designs for the showroom displays caught the eye of his boss. This led to a position as the factory’s menswear buyer aged just 17. By 1974 his shop had outgrown its premises and moved to Byard Lane, where a Paul Smith outlet remains to this day. By 1976 Paul showed his first menswear collection in Paris under the Paul Smith label. Within 20 years, Sir Paul established himself as the pre-eminent British designer – creating trends not only in fashion but in the wider context of popular culture, combining a love of tradition and the classics with a genuine sense of humour and mischief. Paul Smith is global – the collection is wholesaled to thirty five countries and has fourteen shops in England. Paul Smith shops are found in London, Nottingham, Paris, Milan, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Korea, Kuwait, U.A.E. – and over two hundred throughout Japan. Paul remains fully involved in the Japanese business; designing the clothes, choosing the fabrics, approving the shop locations and overseeing every development within the company. Paul Smith also has impressive and diverse showrooms in London, Paris, Milan, New York and Tokyo. Paul Smith continues to be an integral part of the company; he is both designer and chairman. Paul Smith is continually involved in every aspect of the business and as a result, Paul Smith Limited retains a personal touch often lost in companies of a similar size. 

Venue Information

Paul Smith (Head Office), Kean Street, Covent Garden,  www.paulsmith.co.uk 

1330-1500: Lunch/meeting with UK YCE Fashion & Design Past Participants  

Annegret Affolderbach
Annegret is one of the finalists of the UK YCE Fashion Award 2009 and currently the owner of CHOOLIPS. CHOOLIPS creates textiles and clothing that revive ancient textiles traditions. As an ethical fashion business, CHOOLIPS currently innovates Ghanaian Batik to boost commercial accessibility of ethical and ethnic textile products. Its trend-setting collection of dresses won ‘Best Global Commercial Design & Print 2006’ -Design4LifeGhana and was snapped up by Topshop earning Ghanaian producers 13-times their average wage! CHOOLIPS was nominated for ‘Barclays Innovative Business of the Year 2008’
www.choolips.com    

Michael George Hemus
Michael George is UK Young Design Entrepreneur Award 2008 finalist. He started Hulger in 2005 – a designer electronics brand that makes new technologies more accessible through easy to use, well-designed products. Hulger launched with a range of internet telephones sold through high-end stores worldwide, as well as on Skype.com. Hulger went to develop the Plumen Range, a series of designer low-energy light bulbs – using the tubular form of the bulbs, creating sculptural, rather than mundane objects – which won the overall award for the Brit Insurance Designs of The Year 2011. Plumen bulbs can be now also purchased in Europe & the USA.
www.hulger.com    

Stefan Siegel
Stefan was longlisted for the UKYCE Fashion 2010. He graduated in Economics & Business. After a brief modeling career (he appeared in campaigns and catwalk shows for Prada, Gucci, BMW, K-Swiss and Calvin Klein), Stefan started working for companies such as Ernst & Young and Sal. Oppenheim in Switzerland, and the Merrill Lynch M&A Investment Banking group in London, specialising in Consumer & Retail sector. In 2007 Stefan left London’s financial district to launch NOT JUST A LABEL (NJAL). The company was privately funded and the website launched in May 2008. Not Just a Label (NJAL) is a leading designer platform for showcasing and nurturing today’s pioneers in contemporary fashion. Set up in 2008 to infuse new life into fashion, NJAL was quick to become an indispensable tool for the industry; helping designers gain exposure and finance their progression independently by providing an easily accessible retailing forum via its online shop. With over 16 million hits per month, NJAL is an infinitely expanding destination devoted to facilitating growth in the fashion industry.   

www.notjustalabel.com    

Nick Rawcliffe
Nick develops products including furniture, architectural and lighting designs, all manufactured in the UK with sustainability as the key driver. Nick was one of the finalists of UK YCE Design Award 2009. After finishing the Chartered Engineer training scheme he went on to earn an MA in Industrial Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art. After spending time studying at the Bauhaus in Germany and working out in Japan as a guest of the mayoral office of Gifu prefecture Nick returned to start business turning his own ideas into reality. Nick even had an early appearance on Dragons’ Den, successfully earning investment only to be left in the lurch when the Dragon had her own financial difficulties… Undeterred, Nick has continued to develop several other products including furniture, architectural and lighting designs, all manufactured in the UK with sustainability as the key driver. Nick has won several design awards (including £50k in the Fiat design competition 2008) and was shortlisted for best new exhibitor at 100%Design in 2007. Nearly all the work to date has been in design and brand development
www.rawstudio.co.uk    

Rama Gheerawo
Rama is an Innovation Manager and Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art’s Helen Hamlyn Centre, and former YCE finalist – 2008. Rama has worked in a variety of sectors including automotive, product design, multimedia design and design engineering. He was part of the team responsible for building the international reputation of the Helen Hamlyn Centre today. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2005 in recognition of his achievements in inclusive design and regularly writes, publishes, talks and curates exhibitions on the subject to a variety of audiences including academics, professional designers, business and government. He lends his expertise to several influential, professional organisations and committees such as Help the Aged and CABE that actively work to further design thinking.   

www.hhc.rca.ac.uk    

Venue Information
British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, www.britishcouncil.org    

1500-1800: Investment Session (ETI Dynamics)   

An opportunity to present ventures to a group of venture and angel investors. Receive feedback & assessment, as well as a chance to secure a funding partner   

1500 hrs: Welcome addresses
1510 hrs: Presentations 6 x 15 mins each
1640 hrs: Short Break
1700 hrs: Special Address and panel discussion
1800 hrs: Close of the session and networking drinks   

ETI Dynamics   

Established in 2008, ETI Dynamics is a unique socio-economic enterprise focused on economic development in emerging and high growth markets. The firm’s key objective is to increase the rate of economic development in nations by using a number of mechanisms such as offering quality research; showcasing best policy frameworks; connecting companies/countries to new markets; effecting knowledge and technology transfer unlocking new sources of capital; creating strong investment propositions and most importantly developing the necessary hard and soft infrastructure within nations.
Its current efforts are focused on Asia, Africa and Middle East   

www.etidynamics.com    

Venue Information
British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, www.britishcouncil.org    

Tuesday 20 September 2011   

0900-1030: DBA Support to Design Business
Design Business Association (DBA)   

The Design Business Association exists to promote professional excellence through productive partnerships between commerce and the design industry to champion effective design which improves the quality of people’s lives.   

Deborah Dawton
Deborah heads up the Design Business Association (DBA), the trade association for the design industry in the UK. She has extensive knowledge of the sector and its workings. She is particularly interested in developing best business practice for creative firms and raising the profile of design and its capability for wealth creation in business. Her specialties include design consultancy structure, strategic and operational management, finance, growth/development, best practice, people development, business process, marketing, and design effectiveness. Prior to taking her position at DBA, she was Managing Director at Design Events, and Student Design Awards Administrator at the Royal Society of the Arts.   

www.dba.org.uk    

Venue Information
Design Business Association, 35 – 39 Old Street, London   

1200-1300: Masterclass with Paul Priestman   

This will be an opportunity to hear from a leading UK design consultant and ask questions about his way of building a successful international business.   

Paul Priestman
Paul is an industrial designer and the founder and director of the world-famous London design agency Priestmangoode. For around 25 years his work has been setting standards in transport, environmental, interiors, product and packaging design. Priestmangoode has created sophisticated and distinctive design solutions for leading companies including Airbus, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Accor Hotels and British Telecom. The company has gone on to build an international client portfolio and exceptional reputation across this range of disciplines and a large proportion of its work comes from international clients. Paul is also a respected lecturer and consultant who serves on a number of committees. He is a former member of the UK Design Council and was Chair of the Design Sector Skills Panel. He was also President of the Design Business Association and is currently a member of the Royal College of Art Council.   

http://www.priestmangoode.com/who-we-are/    

Venue Information
Priestmangoode, 110 Crawford Street, London   

1430-1530: Design Innovation Session   

InnovationRCA
The Royal College of Art, the only wholly postgraduate art and design college in the world, has a rich history of innovation: many products now in everyday use started as RCA graduate projects and many RCA graduates have emerged as leading innovators in their field.   

InnovationRCA manages and commercialises the Royal College of Art’s portfolio of intellectual property and leads its knowledge transfer programmes – from helping students integrate business and employability skills with creative practice, to inspiring and enhancing the innovation performance of industry and the public sector. InnovationRCA meets the RCA’s Royal Charter commitment to collaborate with industry and commerce. It provides a coordinated range of innovation capability services for business that draws on the expertise and knowledge of RCA departments, research centres, students, staff and alumni. InnovationRCA manages a portfolio of Intellectual Property expertly developed from innovations created within the RCA that can be licensed to industry and commercially exploited in other ways. They also lead on strategic projects at the Royal College of Art in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship, including professional development support for RCA students and graduates   

www.innovation.rca.ac.uk    

John Bound
John is the Co-Director of InnovationRCA. John’s experience includes manufacturing and commerce, design-innovation consultancy and knowledge transfer between higher education and industry.
Trained in business studies at Bristol Polytechnic, John spent a decade in manufacturing and consumer goods marketing to Boots, John Lewis, Heals and other UK retailers, through roles with Chubb Fire Engineering and CoLignum, a small woodware and joinery business run on a co-operative model.
John then joined the business development team at Brand New (part of Michael Peters Group plc) – an international product development agency inked to the future technology laboratories at PA Consulting Group and Sustainability, the pioneering green design consultancy. From 1991, John worked alongside Professor Roger Coleman in creating the Royal College of Art’s DesignAge programme on design for ageing populations, winner of one of the first Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher Education. DesignAge evolved into the Helen Hamlyn Centre for people-centred design and innovation. Here, John directed the Centre’s flagship Include conferences before moving to InnovationRCA as Head of Innovation Development in 2004. He is also researching creative workshop processes in collaboration with RCA Innovation Design Engineering.   

Venue Information
22 Jay Mews, London   

1600-1730: Welcome from London Design Festival directors & tour of the V&A installations   

Ben Evans
Director of London Design Festival. Previously, he worked for Neil Kinnock and Tony Blair on policy development and campaigns including the 1992 and 1997 Labour election campaigns and helped oversee the contents of the Millennium Dome for its launch.   

A governor of University of the Arts London, Ben is passionate about art and design education. Since 1997 he has been a trustee of Artangel, one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organisations   

Will Knight (deputy director)
Having previously worked at the Design Council as International Campaigns & Public Affairs Manager, William joined the London Design Festival in 2004. He is at the heart of a small multi-disciplinary team dedicated to delivering a world-class design event, with responsibility for management, key relationships and campaign management.   

 www.londondesignfestival.com    

Venue Information
V&A, Cromwell Rd, London   

1800-onwards: Various Receptions   

D&AD White Pencil Sharp’ner
D&AD Events exist to inspire, stimulate discussion & fuel debate. Speakers at D&AD President’s Lectures represent the best in their creative fields whilst Sharp’ners offer the opportunity to share opinion & exchange ideas in a more informal setting.
Simon Manchipp of Someone hosts the next installment of Sharp’ner. Designers, advertising creatives and branding experts combine efforts, working with the audience to answer this year’s White Pencil brief   

www.dandad.org    

Venue Information
The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, London   

This Way Up Launch Party
To celebrate 15 years of work, the Architecture Design Fashion team has commissioned London creative agency Unity to develop an exhibition sale that tells the story of British Council commissions, exhibitions and other key aspects of the team’s work, which will run during this year’s London Design Festival. Launch evening will include silent auction of design pieces, up-cycling workshop and sale of archived British Council items, including prints, publications, posters, mannequins and much more. Proceeds from the sale will go towards a British Council Brazil Futures Fellowship Fund for an emerging designer.   

Venue Information
31-35 Pitfield Street, London   

Wednesday 21 September 2011   

1000-1200: Sustainability Session   

An opportunity for roundtable discussion on sustainable design   

Tamsin Lejeune, Ethical Fashion Forum (managing director)
Tamsin has over 10 years of experience in the ethical fashion sector. She holds masters in International Development with a focus upon fashion and fair trade, and is the author of “Can Fashion be Fair?” published in 2004 and is trained in fashion design and fashion business management. She founded and is strategic director for fair trade fashion label Juste, developing a pioneering supply chain model for the production of designer womenswear to fair trade criteria. Tamsin launched and coordinated the first year of the Fashioning an Ethical Industry project on behalf of Labour Behind the Label.
Tamsin has led the initiation and growth of the Ethical Fashion Forum, from the first meeting around a table in 2004 to an international network of thousands, and regularly speaks, writes, runs training programmes and mentors on fashion and ethics. Tamsin is responsible for founding the Ethical Fashion Consultancy, EFF’s sister organsation which unites the worlds foremost experts on fashion and sustainability. She has led Ethical Fashion Consultancy projects with clients ranging from the BBC to the ITC and the Commonwealth Foundation. Tamsin has led the development of the EFF’s Ethical Policy Framework, which through consultation with key stakeholders brings together existing standards available for fashion and textiles products. This tool forms the basis for the work of the EFF with business members.
www.ethicalfashionforum.com    

Simon O’Rafferty, Eco Design Centre Wales University
Simon has been leading the research, evaluation and education work of the Ecodesign Centre since 2005. This research has supported the delivery of a national ecodesign initiative, industry demonstration projects, national and international policy recommendations and non-specialist ecodesign communications. Through the Ecodesign Centre, Simon has also been delivering ecodesign training to professional designers and design educators. Simon originally trained as an industrial designer in Ireland. He has an MSc in Sustainable Development and is currently undertaking a part-time PhD. This PhD will assess how regional governments can support ecodesign and sustainable innovation in SMEs. His current research interests include sustainable consumption and production, innovation systems and government intervention.   

www.edcw.org    

Venue Information
British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, www.britishcouncil.org   

1200-1700: Building Your Brand, Understanding the UK Market & Trend Forecasting   

Sally Denton
With 15 years experience in the industry, Sally Denton’s expertise focuses around trends, online publishing, business support and education having assisted thousands of businesses & students to develop their full potential and is recognized has having particular knowledge & interest in the designer sector.   

In previous roles, Sally was instrumental in the setting up & the delivery of one of the UK’s leading support agencies for the fashion & textile industry – The Designer Forum, which supported over 1,500 UK businesses ranging from new start-ups to multinational retailers such as Claire’s, Tesco, Firetrap, Asda, My-Wardrobe.com. During her time there she ran 22 UK & European funded projects, delivered countless training courses & programmes of support, ran an incubator & trends resource and had several ministerial & royal visits in recognition of her work.   

She then went on to act as UK Agent for Carlin International trend forecasting agency where she was responsible for the UK operation covering all sales, business development, and presenting the trends to clients in briefings and at major UK & International fairs, key clients included, John Lewis, Nokia, Filofax, Arcadia Group, Amtico, Proctor & Gamble to name but a few.   

Sally is currently Managing Director of The Trend Boutique where she provides an international online trends site & resource, a series of large scale conferences, widespread lecturing & course development, as well as a consultancy service to industry, with recent commissions that include trend forecasting for an international publication and presentations on behalf of the British Council as part of Colombo Fashion Week, Sri Lanka.   

www.thetrendboutique.co.uk    

Venue Information, British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, www.britishcouncil.org   

1545-2000: The Concept Lounge – Seymourpowell Ideas Generator Workshop   

During each workshop, members of the Seymourpowell team and talented new designers will imagine a future where reality has changed. Seymourpowell will use their distinctive research and design process to explore the implications and possibility of a future where energy consumption is strictly rationed. Included in each session will be an introduction to the Seymourpowell design process and practical sessions on trends, ethnography, ideas generation and concept development. On Friday 23 September, visitors to The Concept Lounge will be able to view some of the best work from the three workshops.   

15.40 Arrival of Six Preselected Designers who will form two groups to address the brief.
15.45 Arrival of Participatory Audience Members.
16.00 Introduction and Talk.
16.30 Launch Design Brief (Talk).
17.00 Trends (Talk).
17.30 Ethnography session (Practical session).
18.00 Ideas Generation (Discussion session).
18.30 Concept Development (Practical Session).
19.30 Showcase of final designs / Crit session.
20.00 Finish and Drinks.   

www.seymourpowell.com   

Venue Information   

The Gallery in Redchurch Street, 50 Redchurch Street, London   

1800-onwards: Free time and/or London Design Festival events & receptions   

Thursday 22 September 2011   

Morning/day: Free Time   

Free time for individual meetings and/or visits to 100% Design / TENT London   

100% Design
Cutting-edge contemporary interior design? Look no further than the event that started it all, 100% Design. The UK’s first and leading contemporary design show is a hub of creative talent from the UK and around the world and a key event for interior designers and architects in the international calendar.   

www.100percentdesign.co.uk    

TENT London
Tent London is one of the largest design trade shows taking place during the London Design Festival each September. Now in its fifth year at the Old Truman Brewery, Tent London presents over 200 international exhibitors, showing the very latest in contemporary interior products – furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, materials and accessories
www.tentlondon.co.uk    

1400-1600: designersblock – Tour of Exhibtion & Meeting with Piers Roberts    

Designersblock events launch buildings, landmark areas, and by introducing new audiences to new places act as catalysts for urban revitalisation. Shows take place in accessible, central locations at the same time as established and emerging design trade events such as 100% Design London and Tokyo, Milan Salone Del Mobile and the London Design Festival. For every event a multilayered communication strategy with local partners and we communicate regularly with our international design industry database is developed, with over 32,000 subscribers including over 2000 journalists.
Designersblock shows are joined up events for all sectors of the industry. They bring together the diverse out-put of designers from different backgrounds and levels of experience, from Students and graduates to established design companies. Events attract a dedicated and active audience of architects and design professionals, journalists, retailers and manufacturers, cultural and educational institutions, trend forecasters, opinion formers, students and public.   

www.designersblock.org.uk    

Venue Information
Designersblock, 32 Cremer Street, London   

1600-1800: Royal College of Art / Helen Hamlyn Research Centre – Problem Comes First OPTIONAL   

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s exhibition – The Problem Comes First – will be their contribution to London Design Festival. Too much design solves problems that don’t really exist. We don’t really need another stylish chair or coffee table, for example. We do need to design for an ageing population, a better healthcare system and a more sustainable future by defining the real problems that are out there – and that means designing with people. The exhibition will be curated by Jeremy Myerson, Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design and Rama Gheerawo at the RCA, and designed by Chiaro Bello and Emilia Serra and exhibition will feature a range of current design projects being undertaken by the research team in the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. Each project will showcase a statement of the problem being addressed – and how that act of problem definition has directed the designer towards a solution.
On the theme of social inclusion, for example, problem areas will include the social isolation of older people, lack of residential accommodation for autistic adults and the stigmatising nature of hearing aids. On the theme of healthcare, problem areas will include unsafe and unhygienic ambulances, medical error on hospital wards, ineffective neck braces for spinal cord patients, and inappropriate care for pregnant women.   

www.rca.ac.uk    

Venue Information
Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London   

1800-2030: Private View of Silent Revolutions (Slovenian design exhibition)   

The Museum of Architecture and Design presents the exhibition Silent Revolutions, a selection of design that marks the first two decades of this young independent European country. Rather than showing a sweeping overall view the show focuses on outstanding individual cases. Peculiar obsessions, drive, inventive development and high-end production are embodied in 25 exceptional works. This exhibition is the first international presentation of Slovenian product design on a larger scale.   

Venue Information
Dray Walk Gallery, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1 6QL   

Friday 23 September 2011   

1030-1130: Peter Massey, 100% Design (for Design participants only)   

Note to Fashion participants: Morning is free for individual meetings & visits   

Peter will be discussing 100% Design’s international programming and events   

Peter Massey
Peter Massey is exhibition director for 100% Design, a global event for contemporary interior design based in London, with sister brands in Tokyo and Shanghai. With an academic background in environmental sciences, he is keenly interested in how designers can lead and solve sustainability challenges.   

100% Design
100% Design is the UK’s foremost interiors event for the contract, hospitality and residential markets.
As the heart of the show, it attracts architects, interior designers and industry insiders with its array of new and innovative furniture, lighting, textiles and interior fixtures and fittings. 100% Design is the place to come to seek out original, new designs from an exciting mix of emerging and established talent.   

www.100percentdesign.co.uk    

1200-1700: Working with Buyers – Session with Liz Bolt
Liz Bolt
Her experience within the fashion and textile industry and spans 20 years. During this time she has held senior buying positions within some of the UK’s major retailers including Next, Boots and Asda.
In 1999 she set up her consultancy company; Liz Bolt Associates Ltd after being offered a number of exciting projects working for both manufacturers and retailers within the U.K and overseas. The company focuses mainly on sales and marketing with some design work and projects have included work with Hobbs, Laura Ashley, Weird Fish, Next, Wolsey and The Alexon Group.
The company has worked with retailers including George Clothing, Adams, BHS and Next. Liz has worked with new startup companies helping them to develop their businesses with a focus on financial management, sourcing, range planning and developing effective sales and marketing strategies. Although most of Liz’s work is within the fashion sector Liz has also worked with packaging designers, a bespoke kitchen design company, fine artists, carpet design and manufacturing company and business solutions consultants. Liz is a visiting lecturer at Nottingham Trent University mainly acting as a mentor to international MA fashion business students, she also teaches at De Montfort University and BCU.   

Venue Information
British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, www.britishcouncil.org    

2000: Goodbye Dinner   

Saturday 24 September    

END OF PROGRAMME   

Good luck, Elīna while touring London design and fashion scene!

• Curated group meetings to give an overview of what’s happening in the UK design and fashion industry
• Peer networking with the international participants and UK young design and fashion entrepreneurs
• Access to senior UK industry figures (master-class and a lunch for select invitees), including potential advice/ongoing mentoring and investment
• Time for individual business meetings
• Attendance at London Fashion Week or London Deseign Week

In this video IYDE award finalists and jury were asked to answer how they see the Latvian fashion and design industry, what qualities a fashion entrepreneur should possess and how such awards affect and improve industry as such.