festival as lab at open living labs
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Slides from Festival As Lab presentation at Open Living Labs (ENoLL, European Network of Living Labs), Amsterdam, 2 September 2014. Introducing the Festival As Lab concept and methodology, the wider FutureEverything programme, and past projects.TRANSCRIPT
Festival As LabOpenLivingLabs, Amsterdam, 2 September 2014
Drew HemmentCEO & Founder, FutureEverythingDundee Fellow & Reader, University of Dundee
FutureEverythingEst. 1995FutureEverything is an innovation agency, that presents city data services, design for science, innovation events, advice and training, art commissions, and experiences and demonstration.It's festival is both a cultural event and research vehicle, for experimentation in methods and mechanisms for research and knowledge exchange around the emergence of a digital culture.
The FestivalOverview
The FutureEverything Festival A global festival of ideas, art, invention
The FutureEverything Festival A global festival of ideas, art, invention
The FutureEverything Festival A global festival of ideas, art, invention
Festival 2010
Festival 2013
Festival 2009
Festival 2012
Festival 2008
Festival 2011
The annual festival4 days / 200 artists and speakers / 80 events / 20 venues.
Urban Interface (2009-10)
Smart Citizens (2013)
Globally Connected Events (2009-10)
Digital Public Space (2011-13)
Social Networking Unplugged (2008)
The Data Dimension (2010-2012)
LabsYear-round labs with city, culture, science and industry partners.
Festival As Lab - living lab
Academic InterfaceInternationally leading in the Research Excellence Framework
www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/feb/17/top-10-ideas-festivals
FutureEverythingWider Programme
FutureEverything Innovation Agency
Established 1995
FutureEverything Innovation Agency
Data Synchronisation ProgrammeLinking public sector data: release open data and unlock its potential; challenge
the data community to innovate
City Data Services
FutureEverything Innovation Agency
Data Insight
ArtsAPIInsight and value
through data analysis
FutureEverything Innovation Agency
Citizen Engagement
Smart Citizen Manchester(SMARTMCR) - Crowd sensing platform: measuring air quality
FutureEverything Innovation Agency
Art Commissions
emoto - London 2012 data visualisationVisualising audience response in real time
FutureEverything Innovation Agency
Design For Science
Climate ServicesDesign for science - data
visualisation, UX design, etc
FutureEverything Innovation Agency
Open Data Advocacy
ODI ManchesterOpen data advocacy
FutureEverything Innovation Agency
Publications
Smart Citizenseds Hemment, Townsend
Festival As LabEmergence of method
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Carl Sagan (Astronomer, Writer, Scientist)
Living Labs – 'in the wild'
Festival As Lab Art and participatory design methods combined with public trials.
Experiences and DemonstrationCity wide participatory experiences.
Prototyping the near futureUse of art and design prototypes to read and design the
future. Combining scenarios and ethnography, with methods such as 'Wizard of Oz'.
Art as mode of enquiry Art enables questions, tacit knowledge and the otherwise inexpressible to be externalised and given tangible form.
DataGM
Social InfrastructureResearch experiments with social infrastructure that endures.
Curating Innovation Putting into play of new patterned networks or
assemblages of people, ideas, things and actions.
Festival As Lab
Cities become laboratories for new ways of living, playing, governing, new
forms of citizenship.
Publishing and sharing methods, mechanisms
futureeverything.wikispaces.com
How can a festival become an innovation agency, and an innovation agency become a festival?
The Carnivalesque
Carnivalesque A temporary space and moment,
using humour and chaos to subvert social norms and liberate new ideas.
Festival As Lab A temporary space and moment,
using co-design and play to disrupt norms and liberate new ideas.
Festival As LabProjects
OurTravelFestival Navigator 'Field Trial'
ChattrReverse 'Wizard of OZ'
@Chattrleaks"This is like kissing whilst being watched."
City Fictions'Design Fiction' In The Wild
Digital Public Space
The Space
Blast Theory - I'd Hide You
Environment 2.0Leonardo Special Section (and Prototype Artworks, Curated Exhibition)
Art Prototypes, Exhibition, Conference13-16 May 2009, Manchester UK
Project Development Workshop24-25 March 2009, Lancaster University
Perfect TimingWe need lots of measurements on the same day. The day will be announced online from May 10th and confirmed 24 hours before, so please check:www.futuresonic.com/bubbles
Play & UploadTake measurements by playing our two bubble games, then upload your results to our website to build a live map of wind patterns in Manchester.Turn over for full instructions
Both bubble games are intended to be played outside throughout Manchester. While playing the games please ensure that you think about your own safety and that of others. While chasing bubbles make sure that you do not run across roads or trespass onto other’s property. Do not drink the bubble liquid.Ensure that an adult is present at all times.
Two playful, participatory bubble games which enable people across the city of Manchester to map air flow and the urban climate, devised by Futuresonic and the Met Office.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus at elit eu urna mollis mattis. Pellentesque eu arcu massa, sed vehicula sapien.Nulla nec velit vel mi ornare pulvinar et eget est. Sed non diam sit amet metus rhoncus eleifend.
BE PROUD.LOVE MANCHESTER.
Help build a climate model of Manchester by blowing bubbles!
Climate Bubbles: Manchester
Upload your results
x10 10 Metres
Note the location and time here... Note the location and time here...
Write the race time here...Note the end location here...
1 Start locationChoose somewhere easy to pinpoint on an online map, like the entrance to a park or just outside your house, somewhere it is safe to run around.Also record what time you start the chase.
2 Blow a bubble, Chase it, RepeatChase a single bubble until it pops, lands or floats somewhere you cannot follow. Blow another bubble from the finishing point. Repeat 5-10 times.
Be very careful not to run into a road or garden
1 Start locationChoose a start location. If you just completed a Bubble Run start right there!Remember to record the time of day you start the race.
2 Set the finish lineMark a 10 metre distance (10 large adult steps) from your start location in the direction of the wind.
3 Time a bubbleUse a stopwatch (or a mobile phone) to time how long it takes for a single bubble to reach the finish line. Try it with a friend.
3 End locationAfter 5-10 bubbles, record the final place you end up, so you can later pinpoint it online.
Climate Bubbles: Manchester
The Bubble Chase
www.futuresonic.com/bubbledata
The Bubble Race
Two playful, participatory bubble games which enable people across the city of Manchester to map air flow and the urban climate, devised by Futuresonic and the Met Office.Upload your results to our website to help the Met Office build a model of Manchester’s Urban Heat Island.
Perfect TimingWe need lots of measurements on the same day. The day will be announced online from May 10th and confirmed 24 hours before, so please check:
www.futuresonic.com/bubbles
Both bubble games are intended to be played outside throughout Manchester. While playing the games please ensure that you think about your own safety and that of others. While chasing bubbles make sure that you do not run across roads or trespass onto other’s property. Do not drink the bubble liquid.Ensure that an adult is present at all times.
Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas
BE PROUD.LOVE MANCHESTER.
Project Website
Bubble Blowing Kits Distributed City Wide (Or Make Your Own)
Bubble Blowing Games In Manchester
Project Website
“HOW FAR WILL WE ACCEPT PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS BEING
CAPTURED AND SHARED ONLINE?”
“WHAT ARE THE IMPLICIT RULES FOR EXCHANGES IN THESE NEW SPACES, AND
HOW DO VISITORS NEGOTIATE THESE?”
Consent Chat Transcribe Publish
chattr.cc @chattrleaks
RESEARCH METHODS
REFLECTIONS
• Implications of technology
• Experience of the project
• Trade offs
• Reputation of their pseudonym
BEHAVIOUR CHANGES
• Self censorship
• Gaming the system
• Deliberately controversial
• Talking to the machine
“This is like kissing whilst being watched... after a while you don't think about it anymore.”
Festival As LabKey Characteristics
Why Festivals?• Involve large numbers of people taking part in
experimental, playful activity. • Participatory spaces that nurture play, risk and
community creation. • Enable the free circulation of people and ideas,
connecting people at different levels, from grass roots to government and business leaders.
Festival As Lab CharacteristicsFestivals as agile RND environments for real-world rapid prototyping, open innovation and user-led design. • Experts and passionate amateurs coming
together to imagine and experience the future.•City as playspace - People and businesses play
and experiment with the infrastructure of a city.• These experiments devise and test innovations,
and generate visibility and engagement.
FestivalAsLab LivingLabpop-up,
light touchembedded, longitudinal
staged, extraordinary
real world, ordinary
wide engagement
deepengagement
Festival As Lab Differentiation
Different rule and permission spaces Art / research / commercial. Public space / private space.
Discussion
Call To ActionFutureEverything 201525-28 February 2015