PACIFICSTREAM

Roy Jones, Director of Pacificstream on'his bike' - article published in April 07 following the CI workshop.

March 07 - The development of 'Creative Siberia'

Roy Jones, Director of Pacificstream with the Deputy Mayor of Krasnoyarsk following a presentation to the City Hall on the British Council's proposals for the develpment of the Creative Industries in the region.

Presentations:

"CI: Re-Thinking and Re-Imagining the City" - download pdf here

"Creative Clusters: Competitiveness & Success in the Post-Industrial World" - download pdf here

Krasnoyarsk Gallery click here

The goal of the proposed project:

To contribute to positive social changes in Russia by brining CI approach and expertise to Siberia region from the UK

Aim:

To develop an efficient model for creative clusters initiation & development in the industrial cities of Siberia

Objectives:

• To train 4 teams of change agents capable of starting, developing, sustaining and disseminating creative clusters in their cities (Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Irkutsk)


• To develop Creative Agency model in support of creative cluster, creative network, creative community and creative individuals


• To design a mechanism enabling local creative businesses support


• To facilitate the establishment of Creative clusters in the four Siberian cities


• To contribute to creative community and networking development in Siberia

Outputs:

• UK expertise of post industrial areas re-generation disseminated to Russia via appropriate adjustment to local contexts


• Positive long-term partnership established between the North West of England and Siberia


• CI recognised by local policy makers in Siberia as a meaningful tool for post-industrial areas regeneration


• CI viewed as a means for making industrial cities in Siberia comfortable for their citizens, creating unique image of a city, serving a good ground for winning in the world’s competition of cities

Jan 07 - Pacificstream is now part of the Euromed Network for Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures

The Foundation is the first common institution jointly established and financed by all 35 members of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. This far reaching partnership between the European Union and their partners in the southern Mediterranean region was launched at the Barcelona Conference in 1995. The declaration adopted at Barcelona strongly promotes regional cooperation in the economic, social and cultural fields.

The establishment of the Foundation in the ancient Egyptian seaport city of Alexandria underlines the commitment of the partners to work for increased cooperation and solidarity.

The Middle East as well as the southern and eastern Mediterranean region form an area of vital strategic importance to the European Union. The general objective is to transform the Mediterranean basin into a common area of peace, stability and prosperity.

The Foundation's main objective is to bring people and organizations from both shores of the Mediterranean closer to each other and to help bridging the gap between them. Particular importance is given to the development of human resources, while youth is the main target group.

Another priority is the promotion of tolerance among people by furthering exchanges between members of the diverse civil societies. The Foundation acts as Network of 35 national networks established by the Euro-Mediterranean partners.

For more information see: http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/euromed/euromed_foundation/index.htm

Dialogue between Cultures is essentially a dialogue between human beings, not between anonymous cultural entities. Present and future generations must, therefore, be given the instruments for dialogue. In the Euro-Mediterranean region, they need to be provided the opportunity to learn at least one foreign language, preferably more, and to acquire knowledge about all religions and cultural traditions that have shaped this region as crossroads of civilisations.

Jan 07 - Pacificstream joins CONSEN

CONSEN coop born in December of 2006 as the spin-off of the CONSEN EEIG Euro-Group A.E.I.E. with the aim to migrate and boost the grouping of members to a real business cooperation in the recent SCE legal form.
CONSEN coop is committed to the evolution of a networked world in which everything is smart and connected in a complex, ubiqutous and distributed - MeshUp - as information and communication environment which electronical micro-devices are first capable of generating and memorizing meaningful information and second capable of interacting and cooperating among themselves and with the external world for a effective, affective and assisted living and working ambient.
CONSEN coop works toward a networked world, in collaboration and cooperation, in reseach, development, promotion and business, for working, trading, learning and living.
CONSEN coop is part of CONSEN EEIG and actively support its mother company in Innovation and Technology reasearch project to developped solutions focused on Information, Communication and knowledge Society technologies.
CONSEN coop - in process of constitution and registration - is building a Open-Source community of cooperants, partners, and collborators and members to share, manage and exploit jointly their shared pool of knowledge and catalog of competences.

Oct 06- Pacificstream coordinates the Leonardo VIC Pilot Project

Initial meeting at Digitalinc, Liverpool

Sept 06- Seminar on the Creative Industries Development - Krasnoyarsk September 19th – 21st 2006

A brief report

Click here for pdf

Jan 06- Photographs of the Vircouns Liverpool meeting

Click here for links to photo gallery

Jan 06 - On Spatial Aspects of European Cultural Policy

[Non-additive European networking and 'excursionism' ('ekskursionistika')]

Click here for links to pdf

June 05 - Photographs of the Vircouns Vienna meeting

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June 05 - Photographs of the Siberian Rock Scene

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May 05 - Photographs by Yuri Antonov

Yuri works at Radiotechnic, a youth arts and culture organisation in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. The young people there produce exciting multimedia work under the direction of Yuri and his colleagues.

APRIL 05 - Report of visit to Siberia

This was a very stimulating and enjoyable visit to the city of Krasnoyarsk, a relatively remote region which appears keen to establish international partnerships. The discussions were productive, the hospitality was superb, and thanks go to the British Council Russia for facilitating the visit.

Click here to read the report

MARCH 05 - DIGEX/ is off to Siberia

Roy Jones
has been invited to represent Merseyside by the British Council to
advise on the development of the ICT and creative industries in
Krasnoyarsk.

Click here
to see the article in Febuary Mersyside ICT Newsletter.

MARCH 05 - DIGEX/ is to work with LYNfabrikken

LYNfabrikken is situated in Aarhus, Demnark's second city and is devoted to extend people's knowledge of the arts, craft and design. Digex will be working with the Design Initiative in the NW and LYNfabrikken to help develop OPN> NETwork an online database of European designer makers.

Click http://www.lynfabrikken.dk to link to LYNfabrikken's web site and for more information on OPN>

MARCH 05 - eCulture Workshop Wednesday 16th March 2005 Natural History Museum London

About 100 delegates attended including representatives from Germany, Italy, Israel, Luxembourg and Liverpool!

Mainly academics but some SMEs, BBC, DCMS, ACE and museums.

Keynote speaker was Pat Manson, Head of Learning and Culture Unit, EC. She went over the main points of the work programme for the new call that will take place in May 2005. Deadline September 2005. With a target for projects to start May/June 2006.

• How to provide users with simple means of accessing and using digitised content


• Developing technologies to enable the maintenance of the digital heritage


• Less emphasis on capture with a shift to conceptualisation, models and access


• Strong relationship to knowledge technologies


• Towards more participative and creative use of cultural heritage by citizens and by cultural institutions, at all levels, through creative, online communities.

An indicative budget of 42 Meuros

Full set of ppt slides will be available on the Information Society Technologies web site:

http://fp6uk.ost.gov.uk/

Other important speakers were:

Prof David Arnold, University of Brighton, Coordinator of EPOCH a current eCulture project.

Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence

Presentations by prospective proposers were the least successful aspect of the day as most of the academics just wanted to present their latest research. However, two of the most interesting were:

Stefano Tagliaferri

Pf2 Software Sri

Naples, Italy

http://www.pf2.it/

Merav Mack

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Al Quds University

Cambridge Research

http://www.cambridgeresearch.co.uk/

Scheduled information day – 16th June Luxembourg.