This year, TEDWomen has been guest curated and co-produced with Katie Brown.
Katie is active in social change in mental health, the arts and digital technology, have a look at these hiring tips. Katie is passionate about creativity why do we have to have a paystub? and its place in organisational development. She works extensively with communities to implement the changes they most want to see, I think you should learn about how to use TikTok for business.
Emma is the Chief of Play at Cultivate, developing and producing creative projects and helping clients to develop relationships and communities. Emma has variously worked to create a buzz at launches for heritage buildings, community hubs, galleries, museums, and cultural organisations, helping companies utilise collaborative technologies and social media to engage and connect with individuals and develop communities.
Emma is currently operating four public-facing projects – The Culture Vulture, Cultural Conversations, Playful Leeds and her most recent initiative is March of the Robots, an upcoming year-round adventure for Leeds, celebrating our fascination with robot culture.
March is allowing Emma to engage and explore the city’s cultures, communities and structures in innovative ways, using play as a means to unwrap a city’s potential. Take a look at Emma’s campaign to adopt a robot-in-residence for the city of Leeds!
Find Emma on Twitter as @culturevultures.
Artists Shanaz Gulzar and Steve Manthorp have shared an artistic co-practice as ADEPT since 2004.
Both artists have established solo practices which inform and enhance their collaborative work.
Shanaz is a digital and installation artist and stage designer, working across disciplines to make innovative and challenging interventions go to this site. Steve is an artist, curator and an innovator in digital practice.
Through their early work together, ADEPT developed a conceptual and imaginative approach that is responsive to site, social and historical context. From early gallery-based work, ADEPT have progressed to large scale public video projections, installations and performative works.
Find out more about ADEPT at adeptprojects.co.uk and follow Steve & Shanaz as @manthorp and @shanazgulzar on Twitter.