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Spanish Revolution 2011

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The internet is not a thing, so much as an agreement about how many things should communicate with one another - Rob Holmes

Gazpacho is not a thing, so much as a set of cultural relations between things (tomato, pepper, cucumber, garlic, bread) - José Luis de Vicente

OpenData Cities

OpenData andthe City

To introduce a new infrastructure you need to address the entire ecosystem.

Creating an environment for change

FutureEverything Festival

The FutureEverything AwardBringing the future into the present.

The Data Dimension

OurTravelTransport information sharing creating social transport communities.

OurCityEnable thousands of people to have their voice heard and to shape the future of their city.

Networking the World Olympics Data Visualisation Artwork

**Under construction**

OpenData Cities

OpenData andthe City

Explore the connections between people, emerging technologies and possible futures.

Social change

Spanish Revolution 2011

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Spanish Revolution 2011

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Spanish Revolution 2011

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infrastructure is political

Digital culture

FutureEverything (formerly Futuresonic) was established in 1995 as a platform for digital art and culture.

Julian Priest, circa 1990

Julian Priest, circa 1990

Julian Priest, circa 1990

Julian Priest, circa 1990

Julian Priest, circa 1990

Locative Media: The return of the “Here”

Locative ArtsOr, art by the geospatially uninhibited

New ways of seeing, sensing and representingRadar, sonar, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular, GIS, etc

Seeking an art of mobile communications:Are there any forms of expression that are intrinsic or unique to mobile and wireless media?

•We are all being mapped, •all of the time

•The devices we carry leave traces of our movements

Loca: Set To Discoverable (2004-6)

Loca consists of a small network of nodes...

inside each node is a Bluetooth device,made of readily available components,

encased in concrete for use in the urban environment.

The nodes are deployed in public spaces.

infrastructure is political

Facebook and Facial Recognition

GRL - Graffiti Research Lab

Aaron Koblin and Takashi KawashimaTen Thousand Cents10,000 individuals working in isolation from one another paint a tiny part of a $100 bill.

Anonymous

OpenData Cities

OpenData andthe City

Methods(are for geeks)

Festival As Lab MethodFrom activism and interactive arts to social and digital innovation.

FutureEverything: Festival As LabFestivals can be agile RND environments for real-world rapid prototyping, open innovation and user-led design. A city-wide festival can transform a city into a playspace by enabling artists and designers to play with the DNA of a city.

FutureEverything Innovation LabsBringing the future into the present.

Year-round innovation labs, lasting between 9-36 months, each looking at a specific theme, feeding in and out of the festival, which acts as a living lab.

Data Arts (2010-11)Open Data Cities (2009-11)Distant Collaboration (2009-10)The City Experiment (2010)Environment 2.0 (2006-9)Social Networking Unplugged (2007-8)Art For Shopping Centres (2007)Futurevisual (2007)Off The Map (2006)Instrument (2006)

Low Grade (2005)Mobile Connections (2003-5)FutureDJ (2004)Turntable Re:mix (2004)Migrations (2002-3)Blacktronica (2002)Sensurround (2001-2)BrokenChannel (2001)Audiovisions (2000)SenseSonic (1999)The first Futuresonic (1996)

Past FutureEverything Labsfutureeverything.org/innovation

The FutureEverything CommunityGlobal Network.

A destination for a world-wide community of artists, technologists and future-thinkers.

Research Platform

FutureEverything (formerly Futuresonic) part of Lancaster University's successful RAE2008.

Member of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL).

FutureEverything & ManchesterFutureEverything has a close relationship with its host city, Greater Manchester in England. It is an intermediary operating at the meeting point between the public, practitioners and policy makers.

Digital Innovation

Developing into a national framework for art and digital innovation, at the heart of the UKʼs innovation ecology.

Elegant Partnerships

Pioneered a new relationship for a festival with its partners and host city ("elegant partnerships")

Intermediary and ideas catalyst

An intermediary between the public, policymakers, industry and practitioners including grassroots communities of developers and users.

Community is king

Community is king, so build up your social capital, get connected, and let new smart ecosystems evolve.

Open sourcing the festival

Shift from curating and producing art in a conventional way to developing and distributing kits and platforms.

Routes to impact

Creating sustainable relationships and positive change in society and the arts? Can we focus on impact and artist merit at the same time?

Past Innovation Labs

Mobile Connections(2003-5)

Off The Map (2006)

Urban Interface - Hacking Cities

Mediashed The Duellists (2007)

View film

Social Networking Unplugged (2007-8)

Environment 2.0 (2006-9)

Environment 2.0

Social sensing and participatory mass observation of local environment and climate.

http://futuresonic.com/09/env20

One billion eyes"A populace so knowing and capable that all problems get noticed and addressed, quickly, by a billion eyes."- David Brin

Climate Bubbles

A playful, participatory project in which bubble blowing games enable people across the city of Manchester to test air flow circulation, and by sharing the results online, enable the Met Office to get a snapshot the Urban Heat Island phenomenon

Drew Hemment, Carlo Buontempo, Alfie Dennen

Distant Collaboration (2009-10)Exploring new ways to be globally connected, and the potential for artworks involving remote collaboration.

Globally Networked Event (GloNet)

Developing a new type of global event taking us to new corners of the globe and reducing air travel.Shifting from a single city event, to one taking place simultaneously at venues around the globe.

The City Experiment (2010)Serendipity City Challenge

The City Debate

OpenData Cities

OpenData andthe City

Unique opportunity in GMPartnership with Trafford CouncilCurate an environment for changeDeliver the opennessBuild the ecosystem for the city

Raw Data Now (just make it open)Not about Five Star DataGTFS (Google/General Transit Feed Specification)DataGM to be based upon a CKAN system (a catalogue that points to data rather than hosting it, same system as data.gov.uk)

Grow the community and SROIRealtime specification for GTFSLoad balanced cloud platforms

Build a city API and SDK - creating standardised civic data across European cities

Internet of Things - move to create small scale mesh networks with hyperconnectivity

Citizen generated data - We believe that it is essential for citizens to take ownership of data, to create and also contextualise

Spanish Revolution 2011

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eat data

(its good for you)

Drew Hemment

FutureEverything &ImaginationLancaster

@toodrew @FuturEverything @ImaginationLanc

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