The FutureEverything festival and conference is just around the corner, see you
there - Drew
FutureEverything 2014 Festival & Conference
Thu 27 March to Tue 1 April, Manchester & Liverpool
http://futureeverything.org/festival
Tools for Unknown Futures
It takes more than technology to imagine a future. Today, the UK design scene
has become the center of an international movement that uses narratives,
characters and scenarios to plot out the possible trajectories of society under
the constant push of science and innovation. Critical Design, the field started
by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, has blossomed into the rich vocabulary we call
today Design Fiction; acts of the imagination that play the function of
preventive measures, images that allow us to ask ourselves if that particular
future is one we might like to live in.
FutureEverything is proud to showcase and celebrate this movement, as many of
its leading names converge in the art programme of the festival and in the
first day of the festival conference.
"City Fictions" (http://futureeverything.org/festival/art/cityfictions), a full
series of prototypes from the future, will take over the NOMA district on the
Saturday and Sunday of the festival. This will be a speculative city, one
imagined through conjecture and curiosity. A new edition of Hello Lamp Post
enables visitors to talk to future city institutions and street furniture. Adam
Harvey presents a world first anti-facial recognition hairdressing and makeover
salon. A museum presents objects from the future by Superflux, Adrian Hon,
Fabrica, Stefanie Posavec, Ben Hammersley, and more. Winning Formula is the
premiere of a major new art installation and newspaper from 2018 on the future
of data and sport, commissioned by FutureEverything, National Football Museum
and CCCB.
On monday, the conference (http://futureeverything.org/festival/conference)
includes up to 4 hours of conversation and 8 presentations covering emerging
fields like robotics, synthetic biology, new materials, reprogrammable cities
or the future of food. Anthony Dunne, from design visionaries Dunne+Raby and
the influential Design Interactions program at RCA, will start an afternoon
that will travel through the landscapes of the “Speculative Everything”, the
title of his last book. He will be joined by leading UK practitioners like Anab
Jain from design fiction giants Superflux, Daisy Ginsberg, one of the
preeminent voices in the conversation around synthetic biology, or the
influential futures urbanist Liam Young. Featured international guests will
join the conversation to incorporate other perspectives, from Amsterdam’s Next
Nature Lab and their work on the future of food production to Zuloark, the
Madrid-based collective that has made a great impact in the architecture world
with their work designing citizen-run public spaces.
FutureEverything 2014 Festival & Conference
Thu 27 March to Tue 1 April, Manchester & Liverpool
http://futureeverything.org/festival
Art and Design events include the City Fictions pop up city, on Saturday 29 and
Sunday 30 March, and exhibitions and events at the National Football Museum,
FACT and other venues. The Conference is on Monday 31 March and Tuesday 1 April
at Manchester Town Hall. The Live programme runs from Thursday 27 March to
Tuesday 1 April.
Art
http://futureeverything.org/festival/art
Adam Harvey / Adrian Hon / Alex Box / BBC Connected Studio / Ben Dalton / Ben
Hammersley / Bio Strike / Blank Media / BUQs / CoGet / Fixperts / Francis
Bitonti / Golan Levin / James Bridle / Jon Rafman / Karen Mirza & Brad Butler /
Larissa Sansour / Lauren Bowker / Lisa Kori & Caitlin Morris (Fabrica) / Mark
Leckey / Near Future Laboratory / Nicky Kirk and Mel Woods / Open-Circuit / Pan
Studios / Peter Gregson / Rohan Gunatillake / Ryan Trecartin / Sam Meech /
Smart Citizens / Stefanie Posavec / Storystorm / Superflux / thickear / Unit X
/ YoHa / Zuloark
Conference
http://futureeverything.org/festival/conference
Adam Greenfield / Adam Harvey / Adrian Hon / Alex Fleetwood / Alex Gluhak
(Intel) / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg / Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino / Anab Jain /
Anthony Dunne / Ben Vickers / Clare Reddington / Dan Hill / Dan Williams /
Eleanor Saitta / Emer Colman / Garnet Hertz / Golan Levin / Holly Gramazio /
Irene Ng / James Bridle / Jon Kingsbury / Justin McGuirk / Katalin Gallyas /
Koert van Mensvoort / Liam Young / Mia Ridge / Mike Bracken (Digital Director,
UK Cabinet Office) / Neil Crockett (CDEC) / Paul Graham Raven / Paul Wolinksi &
Joe Shrewsbury / Rachel Rayns (Raspberry Pi) / Seb Chan / Simon Giles
(Accenture) / Space Lady / Tom Armitage / Tomas Diez / Volker Buscher (Arup) /
Zuloark
Live
http://futureeverything.org/festival/live
Darkside (Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington) / Robert Henke (Monolake) / Dean
Blunt / Mika Vainio / Source Direct / Ninos Du Brasil (Nico Vascellari) / EVOL
/ Longplayer for Voices and Listening Post / Evian Christ / Koreless / Lorenzo
Senni / Visionist / TCF / Florian Kupfer / Tom Boogizm / RVDS (Golden Pudel) /
Patricia (Opal Tapes) / Andrew Lyster / Miwa Matreyek / EMN & David Leonard /
Peter Edwards (Casperelectronics) / Joker Nies / Richard Scott / Rob Hordijk /
Martin Messier: Projectors (World Première) / Ex-Easter Island Head /
Mooncircle label showcase ft. KRTS (Debut UK tour) + Submerse + Rain Dog / The
Space Lady (Debut European Performance) / Tim Hecker / Julianna Barwick
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