What's on at Digital Harbour Colony, Troy Innocent 2008    SYMBIOSIS AT COLONY electronic light + sound flash mob Location: Colony at Life.Lab, Digital Harbour Street: Corner La Trobe Street and Harbour Esplanade, Docklands, Melbourne Peramant Urban Art Installation Colony is an interactive urban art environment. Bring your iPhone and download the free Colony app from the App Store. Up to thirty people may simultaneously play the urban art environment and feed energy to the media creatures that inhabit it. Each of the totems in the networked sculpture may be played like a musical instrument responding to touch with light and sound. People without iPhones are welcome too as the artwork responds to your presence as you walk along the forested path. More information at: http://iconica.org/colony

Life.Lab is open for business Life.Lab Atrium    Life.lab, a new eight storey development on the Digital Harbour precinct at Docklands, has been completed with strata offices now available for purchase or lease. Designed by award winning architects Moull Murray, Life.lab is located on Harbour Esplanade by the waterfront edge of Digital Harbour – Melbourne’s burgeoning innovation precinct. Specifically designed to accommodate growing small businesses, Life.lab is a unique opportunity for business operators to develop a presence within Melbourne’s newest innovation hub and to interact with big businesses already on the precinct. Life.lab comprises ninety next generation office suites and a limited number of home offices available in 40m2, 80m2 and 120m2 ‘modules’. Available units have magnificent views over Victoria Harbour or the precinct’s central green with city skyline views. Each offers secure undercover parking, fibre-optic internet and access to Life.lab’s communal boardroom and meeting facilities. Atrium spaces along the building’s central corridor promote a vibrant and networked business culture. A 40m2 office with space for up to 5 workstations can be leased from $300 per week while an 80m2 office with space for up to 10 workstations can be leased from $595 per week. For more details please call Paul Lachal, tel: 0418 368 091. www.lifelab.com.au

Digital Harbour thinks big with new commercial development - 1000 LaTrobe Street   Digital Harbour, looks to the future with the unveiling of its latest commercial development, 1000 LaTrobe Street. With 1000 La Trobe Street, Digital Harbour intends to deliver a first class, sustainable facility for larger organisations. Employing features such as large open floor plates (approximately 2,350 m2), inter-floor open staircases, and the option of open ceiling voids for ready access to services, the building has been designed to offer flexibility of tenancy layout and enhance collaboration within the working environment. full story>>         What does it take to become an innovator?     The Jewel in the Crown A small young business finds everything it needs in Docklands to look cool and be successful. Digital Harbour is fast becoming the hottest new precinct to base a small business. "It is the jewel in my crown," says David Cherry, the 38 year old CEO of emerging Australian company EnterMo, who lives and works here. "I love it. There are impressive waterfront views with boats in the background, and there is a great view of the city and surrounding parklands. There are no high rises and towering city blocks crowding me out." With its magnificent waterfront and dynamic mix of large and small innovative businesses, Digital Harbour is perfect for the small business looking to network, grow and succeed. It can thrive in the company of like minded pioneering young new blood, and take advantage of networking with more established technology businesses. full interview>> Mr Weerasooriya says innovation is not necessarily about being ahead of the technology, but more about taking advantage of developments in technology. “We are getting ahead of the curve and waiting for devices (such as Wi-Fi enabled iPods, Blackberries, and Skype on mobile phones) to take hold.”  full interview>> Mr Harrison says there’s no point in innovating if you can’t relate the ideas to the tasks you are trying to achieve. “Innovation needs to meet the requirements of the business case.” full interview>> Mr Mueller likes to take a radically different approach to stimulate innovation, such as bringing acting instructors into the boardroom to coach creative directors in creative expression so they can “tell the story” of a product to test if it is a good idea. “This strikes a different chord than reading about it in a five page document.” full interview>>

Urban Artwork "Field of Play"   One of the most exciting new public art works of recent times Field of Play is an interactive game that you can play via your phone or website. Find out more about Field of Play here>> To play to game online go to www.fieldofplay.net          Photos and Podcasts from Digital Harbour Events and the Digital Harbour Facebook Group...   Facebook for Business - 30 October 2007, speakers included: Philip Phelen, Head of Communications Strategy for Medicom and Stephen Johnson, Founder and Managing Director of Mosaic Podcast>> Melbourne Domain: The Networking Evening For The ICT industry - 4 October, featured: social commentator and journalist Brad Howarth interviewing industry specialist Pete Williams, CEO of Eclipse. Photos and Podcast>> Join the Digital Harbour Facebook Group is a great way to keep up to date with the events program and meet the rest of the Digital Harbour community. www.facebook.com        1010 LaTrobe Street Wins Awards   1010 LaTrobe Street received the Commercial Architecture Award, at the 2007 Victorian Architecture Awards. The Directors and staff of Digital Harbour congratulate Ashton Raggatt McDougall Architects for their creative and innovative design approach to the 1010 LaTrobe Street building and for their dedicated contribution toward also achieving a 5 Star Green Star Certificate from the Green Building Council of Australia. 1010 LaTrobe Street designed by Ashton, Raggatt, McDougall receives Commendation for Outstanding Commercial Architecture at the 2007 Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) National Architecture Awards. full story>>    more about 1010 LaTrobe Street>>