14 May 2010
15:00 - 17:30
Manchester Business School
The City Debate
The City Debate
A special event exploring the future of Manchester.
Manchester is today on the cusp of great change, home to major projects such as MediaCityUK, Corridor Manchester, and Sharp Project, plus plans for next generation broadband, and discussion on opening up public data.
Hot on the heels of the election, this is your chance to inform the thinking and ideas that will shape Manchester's future.
An ideas event for evangelists, cynics, digital artesans, policy makers, property magnates, media vultures, urban planners, you, and me.
Key figures working today to build Manchester's future will give their vision. Each will reply to the FutureEverything Proposition, a statement about the future of the city region commissioned from leading international thinkers. A studio audience will then debate the future of Manchester.
Confirmed speakers include
Sir Howard Bernstein (Manchester City Council) by video, Susan Woodward (Sharp Project), Roger Milburn (Arup), Mike Ryan (Manchester Digital), Dave Carter (Manchester Digital Development Agency), Lyn Barbour (Manchester City Council), Walt Crowson (Learning Skills Employment Network), Patsy Hodson (Manchester Communication Academy), Alice Morrison (NWVM), Nick Johnson (Urban Splash), Professor Alan Harding (Institute for Political & Economic Governance), Martin Carr (True North), Baron Frankal (Commission for the New Economy), Colette Williams (Moss Side independent candidate), Kate Feld (The Manchizzle), Tim Newns (MIDAS), Clare O'Neill (Manchester Knowledge Capital).
Journalist and broadcaster Jenni Murray will moderate The City Debate.
Theme: Manchester is a prototype of the world
Manchester is a city built on innovation and radical thinking, from the industrial age to the time of Factory Records and today’s creative edge and digital sector.
Manchester's recent regeneration has been led over the last 15 years by property development. Now the city is embarking on a new phase of development, posing the question of who is going lead the new development and what will be its direction.
People are today building future hubs for creative and digital industries. The roll out of a grid of high bandwidth connectivity and the opening up of public data will change our relationships with one another, how we have fun, our places of work and the city. How organisations are structured, where they locate and what they do is all being transformed.
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The City Debate is where Manchester will forge its own future and spark conversations that will evolve long into the future. Expect a lively exchange with a wide range of people around the table: politicians, citizens, artists, activists, strategists, and more. Get involved in shaping Manchester and explore what the future of the city holds in store for you.
Manchester: Our Future
FutureEverything is working with Manchester Cultural Partnership to explore key questions for the city:
− What is the vision?
− What is the global opportunity people in Manchester need to collaboratively grasp?
− How can we find more ecologically sound ways of trading and interacting?
− What will be the role of cultural organisations in a digital landscape?
− Who will benefit and who risks
being left behind?
The City Debate will engage communities,
businesses and other stakeholders to explore new ways to bring life,
energy and commerce to the city.
Following The City Debate there is a plan to develop a programme that will take the debate forward.
Part of the Lever Prize winning
FutureEverything, The City Experiment: astonishing talks, visionary
people in a global conversation on bringing the future into the present.
Supported by Manchester Business School, Manchester Cultural Partnership, British Computing Society, Northwest Vision and Media, Experimentality!, Imagination Lancaster, MIDAS, Creative Times.
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