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Next Tuesday 8 July Demos will launch Brazil: the natural knowledge- economy, about the new landscape of innovation, science and technology in Brazil. The report is part of the ongoing Atlas of Ideas project. For more details, or to register, click here.

Also next Tuesday, Demos and EXYZT will be hosting Nick Clegg and others at the Southwark Lido to discuss a new politics. More..

• Getting to know you Co-Design: barriers and enablers Today we are launching our new discussion paper Making the most of collaboration: an international survey of co-design. It sets out the findings from an international survey of 466 public service practitioners.
  
  You can download the paper here. continue reading Posted by Peter Bradwell on 30th June 2008
• The Cultural Age - Integration and Cohesion The Cultural Age Earlier this week, we held the second of our two seminars on The Cultural Age.It focused on integration and cohesion.  One of the most interesting things to emerge was that much is going on in the cultural sector, policy-making and academic research but, often, each is unaware of what is going on in the other.  At the very least, some of those ends could be tied up in conversations between participants of Monday's session.  Another area of debate was long-term change. ... continue reading Posted by Samuel Jones on 27th June 2008
• Cultural and Artistic Practice and Democratic Participation Last week, I spoke at the launch of Peckham Space, a project run by Camberwell College of Arts that looks at the role or participation in contemporary art.The speech covered a range of topics, in particular that of creative and artistitc production as a democratic space and its potential in relation to politics.  You can read a text of the speech, here ... and a podcast of the event will follow soon. continue reading Posted by Samuel Jones on 27th June 2008

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