OK, so we're running an event at the Hayward at the start of February. All you need is an idea, £5 and a tiny bit of self-belief.
http://www.demos.co.uk/events/lookintomyideasftpaulormerod

Here's the beef.



"Do you have a lonely half-formed idea? A ropey business plan, a layout for a building, an outline of a book, a campaign, a screenplay or a web 2.0 innovation? Well, maybe it should get out there and meet someone. Look Into My Ideas is a chance to take your half-formed inspirations, from the back of the pub, off the loo, out of the bottom of the bath and into the Hayward Gallery to meet some others. The session will provide a calming atmosphere in which to meet people with other ideas, including an introduction from Catherine Fieschi, Director of Demos, and a lecture from Paul Ormerod, best-selling author of "Why Most Things Fail".

Tickets are priced at £5 and can be bought now from The South Bank Centre  0870 382 8000. They are listed under "Creative Ideas Exchange".

On Thursday we're launching a new report - it's called Their Space and it's all about young people and the way they use digital technology. As you might have guessed, there's a reason we timed the launch of the Demos Myspace profile with the launch of the report. Instead of getting more and more anxious about sites like Myspace and the place of computer games in people's lives we're arguing that these activities can offer many benefits for the way young people learn, live and communicate.

So... this probably isn't news to most people looking at this Myspace profile but, as we argue in our podcast, it certainly is news for a whole generation of decision makers who are more likely ban mobiles and ipods in the classroom than use them to help kids learn.

We talked to children aged 7 - 18 across the country, they filled in diaries for us and we even polled parents for their opinion too. What did we find? For a start, we're all geeks now - almost all of the kids we spoke to got involved with creating content at some point. Also, kids are better than we think they are when it comes to regulating their own behaviour. Rather than ever more draconian internet filtering they need to be given the tools to help them navigate the online world safely.

Few young people found that technology was changing their lives beyond recognition but some were definitely finding new and exciting ways to create and interact with the world. The formal assessment system isn't much good at recognising or rewarding this, so we make a number recommendations to help teachers, school leaders and policy makers to learn from the thriving digital culture which is part of children's everyday lives.

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