designSHIFT.org: Transforming Building Centre Cafe to Collaboration Cafe

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Transforming Building Centre Cafe to Collaboration Cafe

Last month I was busy designing the exhibition "Collaboration Cafe" in Building Centre Cafe, London. The exhibition marks the last month of 18-month long R&D program to develop StickyWorld - project review and exhibition platform for creative business and education. The basic idea of StickyWorld is to create virtual rooms where people can pin up work, present, mark-up and comment, all using virtual sticky notes.

My task as was to transform the daily Building Centre Cafe to Collaboration Cafe with vinyl graphics and user/function-centered table tops.

"Open for business throughout March, the Collaboration Café forms the final component of research and development led by Slider Studio and supported by Edward Cullinan Architects, HTA, Make, Scott Brownrigg and University of East London. The focus of the research, which is part funded by the Technology Strategy Board, has been to develop StickyWorld - a web based project review and exhibition platform for creative business and education. Through the Collaboration Café, the project opens its doors to the public, further enquiring about the nature of collaboration in education, practice, with clients and communities."

StickyWorld featured in:

thepolisblog
extranetevolution

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Monika LöveWednesday, March 10, 2010
be2camp social media surgeries in Building Centre during March: http://pwcom.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/be2camp-social-media-surgeries/
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