Current Plans

This page will track the development of London Creative Labs.

Current Plan (1st September)

• Initiate Second Round of Peer Funding
• Secure venues for Job Labs.
• Define Micro-Labs (smaller events that will serve to generate income).
• Continue with the business plan.
• Initiate second level planning of Job Lab.
• Connect further with local collaborators in Brixton.
• Connect with facilitation peers globally. Continue with general outreach
• Finish several blog posts.
• Specify further how people can engage.

First Monthly Update! (1st September)

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!

Still to do: Finish several blog posts. Specify further how people can engage. Secure venues for Job Labs. Define Micro-Labs (smaller events that will serve to generate income). Continue with the business plan. Connect further with local collaborators in Brixton. Connect with facilitation peers globally. Continue with general outreach.

Initial Plans (1st August)

So far the plans are as follows:

• Initiate Peer Fund (1st phase initiated)
• Invite participants to scope the mapping project (Sofia has scoped the first Job Labs Program with input from Mamading)
• Investigate potential processes to use (initial process defined!)
• Find an investor for the venue (in talks with contact of potential space owner)
• Establish virtual collaboration channels (done)
• Fix the date for the scoping event (scoping is done)

September

• Identify active project teams
• Scope the mapping project
• Fix the number of sessions
• Confirm venue and needs
• Carry out the project: Identify challenges for Social Business in London

October

• continue with the Mapping Project
• Identify Opportunties
• Conclude the project

November

• Hard Launch of London Creative Labs — presenting Mapping Project Outcomes

I have deliberately not defined it yet a the idea is that it will be carried out with other participants.