Reflecting on the way the FutureEverything festival transforms the city of Manchester England into a living lab or play space for participatory experiments on art, society and technology.
Today is my last day in Vancouver – a city that has touched me personally through its social issues in ways I touch on with my write-up on the Open Data Manchester blog – and I thought it would be useful to give some context to the discussions we had when creating our statements.
We developed
Distilling the experiences of São Paulo into simply three statements was a challenge; the scale of the city and the scope of initiatives here lead to many talking points we could not meaningfully integrate into our outcomes. Public spaces inherently feel different, with a ban on outdoor advertising, and the inherent multiculturalism contributing to an
Following on from the workshop that was undertaken with several creative thinkers here in the city of Sendai, based around the concept of serendipity influencing creativty in a city, we have put together the following statements:
- We believe that serendipity works better in a small to medium sized city. Tangible centre, better networking with people
Here are our statements in response to the Serendipity City Challenge: the result of (we estimate conservatively!) over 24 hours of discussion in and amongst the streets of Istanbul since my arrival on Monday. It was very hard to land on just three statements and our final selection is the result of much debate.
This is the outcome of our workshop in the city of Vancouver responding to the Serendipity City Challenge (GloNet Edition) devised by FutureEverything.
Our workshop took place on 11th May 2010 and the people taking part were Irwin Oostindie from W2, Lianne Payne from W2, Andrea Reimer from Vancouver City Council, Scott Nelson a local technologist,