WK Circle 2
Last Thursday we held the second WK Circle here at 16 Hanbury Street. It was hosted by Tony Davidson and Renny Ramakers from design gurus Droog was the guest speaker. It was an evening built around discussing open source art for all. Renny came in to the agency earlier in the day to tell everyone about the project that Droog are currently organising in cities across Europe called Urban Play. And during the dinner she shared some of the work which has made Droog the most influential design group in the world that was part of the open source approach. (If you haven’t seen it it’s well worth spending time on their site and looking at some of the amazing things they have produced over the years.)
There were lots of interesting people who came along to the evening including amongst others acclaimed artist Duggie Fields, artist (and spray can entrepreneur) Mike Ballard, and The Woman Known as Tony Davidson’s Sister (aka designer and all round star in her own right, Fiona Davidson).
At the start of the evening everyone had to share an item with the rest of the table that had (and continued) to inspire them in some way. So we had photos of Frederico’s father and grandfather, Andrew from Greyworld did some magic tricks, The Woman Known as Tony’s Sister had a fork from an early stage of production before it had been shaped and ‘grooved’, Tapper had some of his own sketchbooks, Simon had a garage punk record and Martin Morales had his wedding ring which he gave to Michael DaCosta to look after for the evening (to demonstrate showing trust in other people).
After all that, it was time to eat and the food was phenomenal, catering again being provided by Fifteen To You. Unfortunately this is the only photo we have of the food because we were all too busy eating it to worry about taking photos. It might look like a lump of ice cream on a plate of cabbage, but in fact it is monkfish on a bed of kale and lentils.
Throughout the evening everyone had the opportunity to write down things that came to them on their placemats.
(This photo was obviously taken before the scribbles, stickmen drawings and obscenities were written down.)
The evening was a success in bringing people together and, for those that stayed at the office until 230am, a success in providing a ridiculously large hangover the next day.
