RSA Power to Create 2015

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of attending the RSA’s annual Power To Create Conference held at Antenna , Nottingha

Felt I’d got a lot out of attending the conference and listening to some  keynote speeches particularly at the start of the day – of particular interest to me was one discussing creativity/entrepreneuship and how educational systems don’t always do the best to nurture it by Paul Roberts OBE.

Unfortunately it doesn’t surprise me – the pressure of having to “game the system” of measurable exams can’t be a good thing at all. Why most of these exams need to exist is a question which needs to be answered – at least from a UK perspective.

The Afternoon open discussions were also really enjoyable- there were nine 20-minute talks from which you could choose three to take part in. Another excellent talk which I was part of was one on integrating those on the autism spectrum further into society – which I personally also have a lot to say on too.

I had my camera with me , so here’s a short set of photographic highlights from the day.

Jeanne Booth introduces RSA Power To Create 2015

Some live drawings of the keynote speeches by Cara Holland

FRSA Awards pitches at the RSA Power To Create conference

Elizabeth Shassere , Textoctacy

Reversing the direction of sounds – sounds from right are funnelled to the left ear and vice versa.

RSA Power To Ignite – plenty of fun to be had!

Lunch for the day was prepared by the Pulp Friction team.

Edward and Debbie , who’s excited to find out the conference hashtag is beginning to trend…

Charlotte and Mary try and find a way of untangling themselves , which takes a bit longer then they’d expected..

Fact of fiction? Green r red?

Open space discussions in the studios in the afternoon session..