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14 June 2015

Our Global work with Hubs

Over the past 3 years, we have been working with hubs on all aspects of programming - from co-curating with hubs to deliver hacks, innovation labs and city wide programmes to delivering programmes with the support and dedication of hubs behind them.

Here are some of the projects that we have delivered, with and for hubs:

3x3 Hubs Exchange (Brazil/UK 2014-15)
These hubs participated in our first hub exchange programme between the UK and Brazil.
CCA
Chapter
Makerversity
Olabi
C.E.S.A.R
Catate92

European Creative Hubs Forum (Lisbon, January 2015)
These hubs attended and supported our our first hubs forum in Lisbon.
Unity Works
Baltic Creative
Noise Festival
Eigg Box
Hackney WickED
Wired Sussex
This For That
Cardiff Start
Generator NI
Studio 223
Impact Hub Birmingham
The Cultural Capital Exchange
Institute of Ideas
Primary
Nest
Maker Space
The Saturday Market Project
Folkestone
Residence
unMonastery
Watershed
European Creative Business Network
Maker Library Network

UK Hub Steering Group (UK 2014 - Present)
This A-team of 7 hub managers have been feeding into our EU Hubs programme, to ensure our work is relevant and forward facing.
CodeBase
Creative Dundee
Creative Edinburgh
Lighthouse
Near Now
TAKTAL
The ROCO

Playable City* (Brazil, 2014 & Lagos, 2015-16)
These hubs have helped us deliver Playable City in Brazil & soon to be, Lagos.
CcHub
Porto Digital
Watershed (our partner)

Digital Futures UKMX
These Mexican hubs have helped us deliver the Digital Futures UKMX programme, connecting Dundee and Mexico City
Laboratorio para la Ciudad
Centro de Cultura Digital
Laboratorio Arte Alameda

Culture Shift
Culture Shift is our global hack programme (2013-present)
Google Athens
CcHub
Cairo Hackerspace
thejamjar
Impact Hub Johannesburg

HubKit

A toolkit developed by hub managers, for emerging hub managers.
Creative Edinburgh
Creative Dundee

Maker Library Network (An Architecture Design Fashion project)
The Maker Library Network is a new network of creative spaces for collaboration between designers and makers in the UK and South Africa, Nigeria, Turkey and Mexico.
Gras
MAKLab
LimeWharf
Makerversity