Dear All,
I am pleased to have the opportunity to invite you to the Manchester EPIC project workshop on Tuesday
29th March 2011, here at MDDA Offices.
‘The EPIC platform will combine the industrial strengths of IBM’s ‘Smart
City’ vision and cloud computing infrastructure with the knowledge and expertise of leading
European Living Labs… to ensure the development of a European ‘innovation ecosystem’
for sustainable user-driven web-based services for citizens and businesses.’ (EPIC, 2010)
The purpose of the workshop is to communicate the SMART City concept and demonstrate the Manchester
EPIC pilot, energyhive, to a representative stakeholder community from
the City.
energyhive is an energy monitoring product, which allows users to view the household’s energy
consumption via a web-based dashboard. The product collates household data at regular intervals via a
number of energy monitoring units from within the home, this data can then be stored on a
cloud-based storage system.
The workshop will allow the EPIC team to highlight the environmental and technological benefits of
using cloud-based approaches to support sustainable web-based services and products.
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All over Europe, cities are faced with the challenge of using cultural resources to re-position their
city in an increasingly culturally and economically diversified European space. Related to this is a
clear recognition of the growing importance of cultural resources for economic and community
development. This produces new opportunities and challenges for local cultural planning and management.
In order to fully exploit the innovative and supportive role of culture in European urban development,
it will be necessary to develop a new socially and culturally sensitive professionalism, able to cross
the boundaries between the arts, design, urban and spatial planning, public policy and the market,
artistic creativity and cultural management.
The MA in European Urban Cultures offers a specialist programme aimed at graduate students from Europe
and elsewhere with undergraduate degrees in subject areas such as the social sciences; cultural and
leisure studies; art, design and architecture; urban theory and planning; cultural marketing and
management. The course is also targeted at professionals and administrators eager for the latest
experiences, ideas and insights in urban cultural policy.
