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Future Thinkers Labs are a playful space for creative minds to explore real business challenges and apply innovative solutions. Reimagining the potential for rural entrepreneurship.
Future Thinkers Labs are a playful space for creative minds to explore real business challenges and apply innovative solutions. Reimagining the potential for rural entrepreneurship.
The Future Thinkers Lab (FTL), working collaboratively with departments from across the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), will create opportunities for curious minds across different sectors to work together with the next generation of entrepreneurs and creatives, to find inspiration from each others way of thinking.
Sectors and industries could include and not limited to, textile, design, digital, architecture, gaming, film, music, publishing, tv, radio, computing, performing arts, data, tech and engineering. The day would take the form of creative problem-solving working groups, made up of participants from the UHI and from different sectors and industry.
Working with businesses in the Highlands and Islands to identify challenges which need innovative solutions such as how tech can be used to make cultural events more accessible or to use algorithms in a meaningful way to enhance the experience of audiences, customers or consumers.
The creative industries know how to engage with people on a human level, relationships are key. During this digital revolution, with the creative industries continues to be a growing sector, worth £268 billion in 2018.
With this in mind, businesses need an opportunity to explore how to future-proof their organisation and markets and the students of the UHI are the creative Future Thinkers they need to diversify.
Why take part in Future Thinkers Labs?
Sectors and industries could include and not limited to, textile, design, digital, architecture, gaming, film, music, publishing, tv, radio, computing, performing arts, data, tech and engineering. The day would take the form of creative problem-solving working groups, made up of participants from the UHI and from different sectors and industry.
Working with businesses in the Highlands and Islands to identify challenges which need innovative solutions such as how tech can be used to make cultural events more accessible or to use algorithms in a meaningful way to enhance the experience of audiences, customers or consumers.
The creative industries know how to engage with people on a human level, relationships are key. During this digital revolution, with the creative industries continues to be a growing sector, worth £268 billion in 2018.
With this in mind, businesses need an opportunity to explore how to future-proof their organisation and markets and the students of the UHI are the creative Future Thinkers they need to diversify.
Why take part in Future Thinkers Labs?
- Develop access to and engagement with new audiences and markets for business
- Develop new modalities of experience for participants
- Unlock the value of creative thinking and co-production
- Explore new business networks for the creative industries
- Place rural-proofing at the heart of innovation
Looking for more information or to get involved?
Please complete the contact form or email me at futurethinkerslab@gmail.com
