First Monthly Update! (August '09)

Beautifully designed offices at Grameen Creative Labs. Now that is creativity at work!

Wow!!! August has flown by and it's been a wonderful month for London Creative Labs!

The Highlights:

• Visited Grameen Creative Labs in Wiesbaden, Germany and engaged in all things Social Business with Hans Reitz and Saskia Bruysten. Came back super enthused!
• Outreach: Launched the Peer Fund and with it, began to engage with a wider audience about London Creative Labs, getting feedback at all levels. Realised that the need to communicate the core ideas in an accessible manner was paramount.
• Populated the website with material co-edited by Mamading Ceesay who also wrote a great guest post — a review of Dr Yunus's first chapter in "Creating a World Without Poverty".
• Welcomed the talented Katerina Symiakaki onto the team to help with marketing and innovation management.
• Wrote some articles for various media outlets who have expressed a keen interest in what London Creative Labs is doing.
• Spoke at The School of Everything Unplugged.
• Engaged various collaborators in a creative and agile process to scope out the first program of London Creative Labs — the Job Labs!
• Raised £2,226 via the Peer Fund.
• Established a nascent presence on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook in order to engage with the wider community.
• Finalised the Job Labs structure and process — the first one will be in Brixton and starts in October!
• Produced a YouTube video explaining the Job Labs Program — very pleased with the final video!

It's been a brilliant month and I would like to thank everyone who's support and engagement has made this possible. Thank you!

Comments

[Christina Bustamante]

I am very excited by your project. The video was very helpful in understanding the project more clearly. I can now see a flow and how it will work. It is something we really need, ie the old systems aren't working and this seems like a new process of new thinking, which can also be created continuously with and by the people who use it. Well done!