World Creative Forum at The London Design Festival

World Creative Forum launched at
The London Design Festival
23/24/25 September 2003

The inaugural World Creative Forum will be launched during The London Design Festival. This two and a half day conference on 23/24/25 September 2003, for delegates from around the world, will explore the impact of creativity on business and society. The Forum aims to become the annual focal point for the development of new ideas about creativity by attracting an international network of key people from design, business, science, education and the arts. Attending the Forum will be a mix of international and UK based delegates. They will be drawn from a broad range of sectors and backgrounds united by an interest in creative thinking and activity, enabling new dialogues and relationships to build. As well as an exploration of new thinking and ideas the Forum will offer opportunities for new business networking.

This year the Forum will take place over three floors at Bloomberg’s state of the art space in the City of London. There will be three ‘theatres’ staged simultaneously over the entire two and a half days. This means delegates will be able to make choices across keynotes, panel discussions, and ‘Insights’ from internationally renowned designers, involving over seventy speakers. The emphasis of the Forum will be to encourage participation through panel discussion, with individual keynote addresses to inspire and provide food for thought.

The speakers will be high level, international, diverse, and inspirational. The combination of speakers will draw together different perspectives around a common issue or theme. For example, dealing with IPR concerns under the heading of ‘espionage’ involving a spy, hacker, private investigator, designer, and lawyer promises a dynamic session.

There will be over 70 speakers in total, including: designer and retailer Sir Terence Conran; artist Anthony Gormley; scientist and Director of the Royal Institution Baroness Susan Greenfield; writer Iain Sinclair; educationalist Professor Stephen Hepple; Director of Artangel James Lingwood, from advertising Andy Law, and over 20 designers from a broad range of disciplines, including; Will Allsop, Rashied Din, Richard Seymour, Thomas Heatherwick, David Marks and Julia Byfield, Delegates to the World Creative Forum will be invited to attend a special reception to open both The London Design Festival and the World Creative Forum on Monday 22 September in the newly refurbished Museum of London. They will also be invited tovthe closing party for the Festival and Forum on Friday 26 September.

WORLD CREATIVE FORUM
Bloomberg LP, City Gate House, 39-45 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1PQ
www.worldcreativeforum.com