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U K - K O R E A C A T A L Y S T PROGRAMME
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LIMINAL SPACE TOUR FOR UK-KOREA CATALYST DELEGATES
Tour guides:
Amanda Gore and Sarah Douglas - The Liminal Space
Delegates:
Hyekyung Hwang - Hivearena
Jihye Ahn - Ethrica
Joo Hyung Lee - Userhabit
Miho Heo - Weenu
Park Joong Yeoi - Jerrybag
Sungho Choo - VentureSquare
Yuha Jin - Tella
Yunbae Kim - Playplanet
Accompanied by:
A-Young Song - The Korea Foundation
Misun Seo - British Council Korea
Youngjoo Kim - British Council Korea
Contact details if any problems:
Amanda Gore +447958 484121 (Monday and Wednesday)
Sarah Douglas +447789 513436 (Tuesday)
Youngjoo Kim 82-10-7327-7770
the-liminal-space.com
Makerversity Somerset House
New Wing
Lancaster Place
WC2R 1LA
MONDAY 06.07.15 Morning - Group with British Council
team (SW1A 2BN)
12:00 - Lunch at British Council -
Liminal Space arrive to meet group.
13:00 - LIMINAL SPACE INTRODUCTION
Walk SW1A 2BN
to WC2R 1LA (c20 mins)
13:30 – VISIT MAKERVERSITY Tour & talk / Meet start-ups
(including Birdsong and
Wevolver)
Makerversity is building a thriving and
diverse community of the best makers.
They provide affordable space, tools
and cutting edge workshop facilities as
well as opportunities for collaborations,
projects, investment and funding.
makerversity.org
Birdsong - birdsong.london
Wevolver - www.wevolver.com
Bethnal Green Ventures(inside Makerversity)
Startisans 77 Shelton Street,
WC 2H 9JQ
MONDAY 06.07.15
14:30 – VISIT BETHNAL GREEN VENTURES Talk & meet start-ups
16:00 – leave – walk WC2R 1LA to WC2H
9JQ (c.15 mins)
16:30 – VISIT STARTISANS
Talk from founder.
Bethnal Green Ventures is an acceler-
ator programme for people who want
to change the world using technology.
bethnalgreenventures.com
Startisans are the newest generation of
budding entréepreneurs, the fledgling
start up businesses and producers of fine
artisan food startisans.net
Impact Hub Westminster1st Floor New Zealand
House
80 Haymarket
London SW1Y 4TE
MONDAY 06.07.15
18:00 – (Optional) VISIT AND TALK AT IMPACT HUB WESTMINSTERTour and evening talk on
purpose - driven businesses
An exclusive insight on how
business is changing people’s
lives through the power of
purpose, culture and cam-
paigning and how caring,
sharing and daring companies
have opened a new chapter
for the world of business. – by
the authors of ‘Mission: How
the Best in Business Break
Through’
Impact Hub Westminster is one of the
largest of a global network of locally
owned collaborative working spaces.
Their primary aim is to support organ-
isations with positive social and envi-
ronmental impact at the heart of their
missions. westminster.impacthub.net
UsTwo62 Shoreditch High St
London E1 6JJ
LimewharfVyner street
Hackney
London E2 9DJ
Technology will save usInside Limewharf
TUESDAY 07.07.15 08:50 - Meet at The Tea Building, Shoreditch (E1 6JJ)
09:00 – VISIT USTWOTour, talk & meet the teams
11:00 - coffee break and chance to look around Boxpark boxpark.co.uk11:40 – taxi to E29DJ (c.15 mins)
12:00 - VISIT LIMEWHARFTour & talk
12:45 – VISIT TECHNOLOGY WILL SAVE US -Talk & showcase
13:15 – LUNCH Limewharf café
UsTwo is a global digital product studio
launching products, services and compa-
nies that make a measurable difference to
the world. ustwo.com
LimeWharf is a Hackney based cultural
innovation hub and artistic laboratory on
Regent’s Canal. limewharf.org
Technology Will Save Us design
gadgets that you can make yourself. Our
DIY kits and resources are the best way to
learn skills, make cool things and begin
your own journey as a tech maker.
techwillsaveus.com
Clearvillage Inside Limewharf
Special Projects35 Fournier Street
London, E1 6QE
TUESDAY 07.07.15
13:45 - CLEARVILLAGETalk from the Chief Executive
14:30 – Taxi to Spitalfields Market – then free time. The group can get a coffee, wander or just relax
16:00 – VISIT SPECIAL PROJECTSTalk from one of the founders
17:00 Walk / Taxi to Techhub EC2Y 9AR
Clear Village is a London-based charity
that helps communities build a better
future through creative
regeneration. clear-village.org
Special Projects is a product design &
invention studio that creates innovative
products and services by fusing the
physical and digital worlds
special-projects-studio.com
Techhub 20 Ropemaker
Street London EC2Y 9AR
Techhub, Google Campus4-5 Bonhill Street
London EC2A 4BX
TUESDAY 07.07.15
17:15 VISIT TECHHUB
Tour & meet some of the
start-ups (including Fluency and
What Now Travel)
18:30 TECHHUB DEMO NIGHT
TechHub Demo Night isn’t
about pitching for funds, it’s an
opportunity to show the
community what you’re working
on, get some feedback, and see
what others are toiling away on techhub.com/events/demo-night-11
TechHub is a unique environment where
technology startups can start up faster.
We nurture an international network of
like-minded and focused tech entrepre-
neurs, providing places where they can
work, meet, collaborate, network, learn and
have fun. london.techhub.com
Fluency - fluency.io
What Now Travel - whatnowtravel.com
Wayra2-10 Capper St
London WC1E 6JA
WeFarm – inside Wayra
WEDNESDAY 08.07.15
08:50 - Meet at Goodge Street Station.
Walk WC1E 6JA (c5 mins)
09:00 – VISIT WAYRA Tour and talk from head of
Wayra UK
09:30 – TALK FROM WEFARM Talk from founder
10:15 - MEET OTHER COMPANIES AT WAYRA UNLTDCoffee and conversations
11:00 - break
12:00 – POSSIBLE VISIT,
PLUS TRAVEL TO EC1R 0BE
Wayra UK is Telefónica’s startup
accelerator, they help entrepreneurs to grow
and build successful businesses. wayra.co/uk
WeFarm is ‘The internet for people with no
internet’ – a pioneering social enterprise,
launching a peer to peer knowledge sharing
platform for small-scale farmers in rural
communities in Africa and Latin America.
wefarm.info
Urban Innovation Centre
One Sekforde St
London
EC1R 0BE
WEDNESDAY 08.07.15
13:00 – (Optional) TALK AT URBAN INNOVATION CENTRE Please let us know if you want to
go and we will sign you up.
Larissa Suzuki, a senior software
engineer and PhD Candidate
in Software Systems Engineer-
ing at UCL and Digital City
Exchange at Imperial College
London will discuss the capabili-
ties of smart cities,
specifically the integral role of
future business models and data
infrastructure, the role of the
Internet of Things, of large-scale
interconnected systems and
urban data management. urbaninnovationcentre.org.uk/event/
wednesday-lunchtime-lecture-6-bil-
lion-dreams-larissa-suzuki
15:00 – Group to visit Nesta with British Council team (EC4A 1DE)
A list of suggested places and events you may wish to visit during the rest of your time in London
Designers of the Year exhibition, Design Museum - Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD.
Nearest tube = London Bridge - Designs of the Year celebrates design that promotes
or delivers change, enables access, extends design practice or captures the spirit of
the year - http://bit.ly/1CevLfa
Designing the Urban Commons - LSE Atrium Gallery, Old Building, Houghton Street,
WC2A 2AE. Nearest tube = Temple or Holborn - This exhibition showcases the most
stimulating and challenging responses to Theatrum Mundi’s 2015 ideas competition
which invited anyone to re-imagine spaces in London as places for collaboration, shar-
ing and collective ownership. http://bit.ly/1HzMBp8
Tate Britain - ‘The Weight of Data’ - Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Nearest tube =
Pimlico or Westminster - This exhibition, part of Tate Britain’s Contemporary Projects
series, includes recent work by emerging artists who investigate the material world
through the conversion of information from one state to another. http://bit.ly/1LGKxgI
Southbank Centre Summer of Love Festival - Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road
SE1 8XX. Nearest Tube = Waterloo - A schedule of love-themed activities, perfor-
mances, music, exhibitions and free events throughout the summer bringing together
hundreds of artists, communities and partners. http://bit.ly/1H48Zpa
Carsten Höller Exhibition ‘Decision’ - Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere
Road SE1 8XX. Nearest Tube = Waterloo - The artist’s largest survey show in the UK to
date. The exhibition, which sprawls across Hayward Gallery and erupts beyond its roof
and walls, explores perception and decision making. http://bit.ly/1LY4gGN
Never Mind the Bollards Installation at New London Architecture - South Crescent, Store Street, WC1E 7BT. Nearest tube = Goodge Street
This New London Architecture installation, curated by Sarah Gaventa, explores the so-
cial design history and meaning of elements in our public spaces we walk by and over
everyday—what do they do? Who designed them and when/why?
http://bit.ly/1JDrXE7
All of This Belongs to You - Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road, London
SW7 2RL. Nearest tube = South Kensington - A series of specially commissioned
interventions around the Museum which act as a laboratory for public life and explore
the role of design and architecture in defining civic identity, technology, security, citi-
zenship, democracy, the public realm and urban experience. http://bit.ly/1HzMFFl
Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening - Barbican Centre, Silk St, EC2Y 8DS.
Nearest tube = Barbican or Moorgate - For 30 days this summer, Doug Aitken’s
project Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening, takes over the Barbican Centre with
more than 100 free events over 30 days. This ‘living exhibition’, brings together a
fusion of leading international and UK-based artists from the world of contemporary
art, music, dance, graphic design and film in a jam-packed programme. No two days
will be the same - http://bit.ly/1JARHnn
Carsten Nicolai & the vinyl factory present unicolor – an immersive installation - The Vinyl Factory, Brewer Street Car Park , Brewer Street, W1F 0LA - An extension
of his fascination with the boundaries between audio and visual art forms, Carsten
Nicolai’s new work will stretch panoramic wavelengths of blue, red, green and grey to
infinity, confronting the viewer with a visceral expanse of colour and sound to test the
limits of perception. http://bit.ly/1H499wA
Hoxton Street Monster Supplies - 159 HOXTON STREET N1 6PJ. Closest station
= Hoxton. Open 1-5pm - A shop full of fun, quirky and fantastical products that kids
love, which was set up as part of the Ministry of Stories – an initiative that sees profes-
sional writers mentor young people in the art of story writing. All profits from the shop
go to the initiative, which is based behind a hidden door in the store.
monstersupplies.org
The School of Life - 70 Marchmont St, London WC1N 1AB. Nearest tube = Russell
Square - The School of Life is devoted to developing emotional intelligence through
the help of culture. We offer classes and therapies in person. We also publish books,
create films and make and sell a range of objects & tools that will assist you in the
quest for a more fulfilled life.
theschooloflife.com/london
EVENTS:
London New Tech July 2015Wednesday, July 8, 2015 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Monthly meetup to showcase new technology from London and around the world
followed by networking. 5-7 presenters show demo of their technology and answer
questions. For more details and to attend register here: http://bit.ly/1COtXnS
Open Process – CoLAB Associates Beta ReleaseThu 09 Jul 2015, 6:30-9pm
At CoLAB, London’s first Art + Technology prototyping incubator a group of 13 artists
and creative technologists will work on a series of projects at the intersection of art
and technology. The first OPEN process Beta Release will be an insight into the pro-
cess that the artists have been incubating http://bit.ly/1C3Ozxl
Hardware Club meetup - June 10 · 6:00 PM
The first Hardware Club Meetup with presentations and a round table on the topic of
‘Financing Hardware Startups’ animated by Barbara Belvisi, partner and co-founder at
Hardware Club. For more details and to attend register here: http://bit.ly/1KvZanV
#TransActing: A Market of ValuesSaturday, 11th July 2015, 12 - 5pm
This bustling pop-up market will feature artists, designers, economists, civil-society
groups, academics, ecologists, activists and others who creatively explore existing
structures of evaluation and actively produce new ones. TransActing will showcase a
skillshare, a peoples bureau, organ donation, an economy of promises, commoners, a
fablab, a bring your own BBQ, virtuous communities, a speakers’ corner—even a kiosk
buying tears. Multiple currencies will circulate, not all of them monetary.
http://bit.ly/1NA3Y9z
The Liminal Space curates learning
experiences to inspire teams looking
for a creative edge and a fresh
perspective.
We use art and design principles and
first-hand learning to help clients
solve strategic challenges, enrich
their customer relationships and
develop their people.
the-liminal-space.com
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