We will be in Innovate 10 Digital Zone on Tuesday 12th of October in Business Design Centre London. Innovate 10 will  feature Technology Strategy Board’s research pioneers  to discuss the benefits of research to business and commercial success. Come and meet our team!

StickyWorld will present at the IPA in London on Wednesday 21st of July as part of a Creative Industries KTN workshop exploring the future of digital design tools . We are delighted to be invited to showcase StickyWorld, and hope to demonstrate the many generic applications across many sub sectors within this large sector.

Our team is off to the West Midlands this week to support MADE’s engagement of young people at the CABE Summer School. We will be working with MADE and exploring The Public. The team will use StickyWorld as a tool to support a post occupancy design quality indicators exercise with a group of 30 young people.

We will be in Birmingham at the be2camp ‘unconference’, August 12 from 12.15-8pm at the Library Theatre, Birmingham, discussing knowledge exchange 2.0 in the built environment. Be2Camp attendees will receive a special promo code to continue free use of the platform up until the end of the year. Click here to register for this free event.

Michael Kohn will be in Manchester at the be2camp ‘unconference’ held at the Machester School of Architecture this Tuesday to present and demonstrate StickyWorld to this growing virtual community. Click here to register for this free event.

This summer we are working with the London Festival of Architecture. Our support team offers events organisers real hands on support to represent their own event or project in StickyWorld. We will help you invite the wider public to have their say, leave comments in context and continue the dialogue about design. Visit the LFA StickyWorld account during the festival to see who’s exhibiting! lfa2010.stickyworld.com

We are delighted to announce the availability of several paid graduate internships to support StickyWorld deployment throughout the London Festival of Architecture. The intern, who will have graduated betweem March 2008 and March 2010, will help LFA events organisers build interactive online exhibitions of their events and drive interest and discussion of their activity online. This internship, managed by Slider Studio between 14th June and 13th July, is part funded by Knowledge East, and pays salary plus expenses.

For information click here.

This evening Michael Kohn presented the ideas behind StickyWorld to the South London Society of Architects in a lecture theatre at London South Bank University, complementing an earlier broad ranging presentation by Paul Wilkinson looking at the emergence of web 2.0 and enterprise 2.o software in the built environment. Paul asked whether architects can ignore the potential of web 2.0 and software as a service? Well it was clear from tonight’s talk that the educators in the audience saw great potential for StickyWorld to play a role in architectural education, and whilst StickyWorld already supports architectural project review at University of East London, we look forward to offering accounts to more architectural schools around the country and also further afield.

StickyWorld is sharing ideas and know-how with Woobius. The first meeting took place last Friday (31.04) when Bob and Daniel came to visit our development team.

In a friendly atmosphere, lots of technical and business related hints were exchanged and future collaboration prospects were discussed. Both of the companies are start-ups that have grown out from the architectural design discipline, and both focus on developing useful tools for creatives and other players in the construction industry.

StickyWorld and Woobius will continue looking for opportunities to work together, while maintaining the good relationship in meantime. We are looking forward to see these guys again soon!

StickyWorld features in an another interesting article in Construction Manager looking at new technologies including our own service and that of our friends at Woobius, and discussing new movements in the SaaS collaboration industry. Elaine Knutt notes “it remains to be seen whether the future belongs to young upstarts such as Woobius, Collabor8online and Slider Studio”. Well Elaine we can confirm that StickyWorld Ltd now operates as a totally separate company to Slider Studio, and we hope people will think of us more as a start up than an upstart. Either way we are pretty confident we have something really useful to offer the industry, and people don’t need to wait for the future, they can sign up today.

Stephen Kennett reviews StickyWorld in the article about latest web tools for architects. Stephen has asked Bryant Priest Newman Architects to test StickyWorld in professional context and their response is uplifting: “It is incredibly easy to navigate and excellent way of commenting and reviewing on drawings.” They also higlight the opportunity to better engage part-timers using StickyWorld.

Well, thank you for this comment. We do our best to keep developing StickyWorld in order to meet the needs of professional practices and individuals.

There are still places left for the Collaboration Cafe Symposium on Tuesday 30th March from 2-6pm in the Building Centre conference suite. The Symposium discusses collaboration in education, practice, with clients and with communities, and summarises the findings of ongoing research and development carried out on the StickyWorld CRD project. The speakers include Michael Kohn of Slider Studio and StickyWorld, Rob Annable of Axis Design Architects, Paul Wilkinson of Be2Camp. The panel chaired by Andrew Scoones includes Robin Nicholson of Edward Culinan Architects, Ben Derbyshire of HTA, Darren Comber of Scott Brownrigg, and Bob Leung of Make and Woobius. Sign up here .

Collaboration Café Online is now open to public. The exhibition rooms feature recent work in form of drawings, photos and 3D models from several architectural practices including Scott Brownrigg, Edward Cullinan Architects, HTA Architects, Make Architects, and Slider Studio. The Café will be open throughout March and April, and will be regularly updated. Visitors are invited to leave their thoughts and comments to the exhibition rooms.
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This Friday, the Collaboration Cafe hosts a CV Clinic for architecture students. Edward Cullinan Architects, HTA, Make, Scott Brownrigg and Adrem team up in the Cafe, collaborating with the UEL Employability team and UEL AVA to offer a tailored CV clinic throughout the day. Students can sign up for appointments by emailing employability (at) uel.ac.uk.

The launch party at the Collaboration Cafe last night marked a really good start to the exhibition with over 100 guests attending. Representatives from all four of our collaborating practices were joined by other interested architects, academics, researchers, students and journalists. We invited everyone to join the project by signing up for a free beta account for their organisation, or to join the collaboration cafe online and take part in the activities planned for later this month.

The StickyWorld Collaborative Research and Development Project opens up the collaboration to the interested public throughout March in The Building Centre, 26 Store Street London. Rebranded as the Collaboration Cafe, the Building Centre has improved the wireless network connection for visitors and we have redesigned the tables to make more room for laptops and working. The surrounding exhibition shows the work of practitioners, educationalists and students using StickyWorld including a large physical installation by Unit 9 students at UEL. All month we will run an online survey with formatted StickyNotes enquiring about the nature of collaboration in education, practice with clients and communities. The research will conclude with a symposium on 30th March discussing our findings, with responses from collaborators on the project and including further members of our extended beta programme.