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Sparknow has always placed great emphasis on the effective use of space to create the right environment for the exchange of ideas and knowledge transfer. In our early days we used a thought provoking exhibit, a garden shed (scriptorium), situated among technology stands at one of the first KM Europe events in Bruxelles to demonstrate the value of quiet reflection spaces, to challenge perceptions and stimulate thinking.
The Whitechapel Gallery in the East End of London was the recent venue for one of a set of pilot events (innovation fund workshop) held under the auspices of the Knowledge Transfer Programme Sparknow is helping to run for Museums, Libraries and Archives of London. Recently reopened after an extensive expansion programme the gallery with a copy of Picasso’s Guernica as a backdrop to the circular “UN” table for the dozen participants proved an ideal environment.
At that event participants were asked to create a museum / archive of the future: imagine what it might look like, who it might be used by and how it would share its knowledge. Since the workshop was highly interactive with extensive use made of images it was important the outputs reflected the energy of the event.
Increasingly we have come to recognise the value of good curation. In addition to careful selection of venue the use of images as a technique to capture the dynamic of an event and the assets that have been created is an effective trigger of subsequent conversation and memory recall for the participants and interested observers.
With MLA’s permission we are therefore making the record of the 6th July event available in the hope that it will encourage greater use of this technique and a move away from the usually sterile (and often unread) account of meetings and events.
