Keynote talk at CING (Creative Industries Networking Group) second birthday in Manchester, 11 October 2010

Prototyping the future

Drew HemmentFutureEverything - http://futureeverything.org ImaginationLancaster - http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk

http://futureeverything.org

http://futureeverything.org

http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk


Mobile Connections(2003-5)

i. The Manchester Method ii. Festival of art, music & ideasiii. Digital innovation labs iv. Open Data Cities / Smart Cities v. Collaborative platform

The Manchester MethodWhy Manchester? What is unique about this city?

BraggadocioBraggadocio is a character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, famous for his boastfulness and swagger.

BlaggadocioBlaggadocio is a character on the streets of Manchester who innovates (creates favourable conditions in the world around them) through quick wit, chicanery and play.

I blag, you blag, he/she blagsBlag is one of the most distinctive words in the english language (in England).

A blagger is a trickster, a thief, but the word is often used in a positive way.

Blaggers and HackersA blagger is similar to a hacker.

Blaggadocio = a hacker with a mancunian attitude.

Hack the City - BlaggadocioThe city is made up of code that is reworked and rewritten. Blaggers and hackers do not accept the world as they find it. They edit, debug and back fix to create favourable conditions in the world around them.

My QuestionSo Manchester, are you a blagger or just a bragger?


A global festival of art, music & ideas4 days / 300 artists and speakers / 100 events / 40 venues.Established 1995.

The FutureEverything Festival Global festival of art, music & ideas




The FutureEverything AwardBringing the future into the present.

The EyeWriterFutureEverything Award 2010 Winner

The FutureEverything CommunityGlobal Network.

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


FutureEverything 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.

New Mobilities (2009-11)Open Data Cities (2009-10)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 Labs

Link to the festival: Festival as LabPrototyping the future

The festival creates a space in which participants can experiment and play with the DNA of the city.

Digital culture

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


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.


Loca: Set To Discoverable (2004-6)

View film http://bit.ly/locafilm

www.loca-lab.org

Loca-

http://bit.ly/locafilm

http://bit.ly/locafilm

http://www.loca-lab.org

http://www.loca-lab.org

Off The Map (2006)

Low Grade (2005)

Art For Shopping Centres (2007)

Mediashed The Duellists (2007)

View film

Social Networking Unplugged (2007-8)

Environment 2.0 (2006-9)

Environment 2.0

Exploring the interface between digital footprint and environmental footprint, drawing on new approaches to the environment from pervasive and locative media and work on issues related to climate change and sustainability

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

BiotaggingDiscovering and creating a folksonomy of the city's urban wildlife. People moved through a range of microclimates observing and identifying the plants, animals and fungi they find along the route. A 'Rover' vehicle was used to film and collect data. Participants were able to think up their own ways to classify and record the wildlife they discovered.

Christian Nold, Rebecca Ellis, John Tweddle, Drew Hemment

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

The City Experiment (2010)Serendipity City Challenge

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.

New Mobilities (2009-11)





OurTravelImpact trial of social networking transport information app - social transport communities.


Open Transport DataData visualisation and data services.


Mobile WorkingThe whole city holds meetings in trams, buses and public places for a week.


TelepresenceNew ways to be globally connected.

Open Data Cities (2009-10)FutureEverything is helping Manchester make the transition to an Open Data framework.


OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

OpenData andthe City

OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

The need for region-wideOpenData

OpenData Cities

The need for region-wideOpenData

The challenge

OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

ROUTES TODATA RELEASE

OpenData Cities


Freedom of Information

OpenData Cities



Consensus

OpenData Cities



Consensus

Prove demand

OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

THREE PRONGEDAPPROACH

OpenData Cities


Data users

OpenData Cities


Data users

Data managers

OpenData Cities


Data users

Data managers

Executive Level

OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

Community Building

OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

TARGET VALUABLE DATA

OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

COMING SOON?

OpenData Cities

COMING SOON?

The development ofa region-wide data store

OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

OpenData Cities

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

Data Store

OpenData Cities

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

‘Bus Fair’ Crowdsourcedbus fare data

Data Store

OpenData Cities

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

‘Bus Fair’ Crowdsourcedbus fare data

Citizen - Generated Data

Data Store

OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

WE NEED YOU:

OpenData Cities

WE NEED YOU:

To interpret the data

OpenData Cities

WE NEED YOU:

To create applications


OpenData Cities

WE NEED YOU:

To create applications

To build the market


OpenData Cities

OpenData Cities

Open Data Manchester wiki wiki.opendatamanchester.org.uk

OpenData Cities


Trafford Data Store http://trafford.gov.uk/opendata/

http://www.trafford.gov.uk/opendata/


OpenData Cities


Salford Data Store http://salford.gov.uk/opendata.htm


http://salford.gov.uk/opendata.htm




OpenData Cities


Salford Data Store http://salford.gov.uk/opendata.htm

data.gov.uk







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Keynote talk at CING (Creative Industries Networking Group) second birthday in Manchester, 11 October 2010