‘The best way to predict the future is to invent it’
Alan Kay
The FutureEverything conference invites proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and sessions that relate to and expand the themes listed below. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction and experimentation are encouraged.
Exploring the interface between technology, society and culture, the internationally acclaimed FutureEverything conference is the crucible that allows artists, technologists and future-thinkers to share, innovate and interact. It has prefigured new trends and is a place where important international discussions take place.
FutureEverything can offer one hotel room night and an honorarium of £50 per proposal selected for the conference.
The deadline for submissions is 24th October 2010.
Conference Themes 2011
This years themes are as follows:
ImagineEverything
Our most daring and wide-ranging conference strand, bringing you
insights into tomorrow’s society, digital creativity and free culture.
Taking all of our wildest dreams for the future and imagining what
would happen if they really came true is at the heart of this strand.
FutureMobilities
Exploring future scenarios for smart transport, and looking beyond the
transport of everything. How can real-time data systems lead to more
sustainable transport? How can travel-time become smarter and more
user-controlled? Where are we going and, more importantly, how will we
be getting there?
Global & Connected
Remote collaboration, telepresence, networked performance, local/global
connections, and group-to-group connectivity are a focus again,
following the success of the inaugural GloNet event at FutureEverything
2010.
OpenEverything
The opening up of datasets by public bodies and private companies has
huge repercussions both socially and politically. What models are
emerging for the fair and creative use of such material and what are
the implications of an open society?
FutureEverybody
The future must be for everybody – this was the call to arms from the
last festival. A conference strand on citizen engagement will explore
how we can connect communities and how citizens can be co-producers in
decision making, intelligence gathering and building sustainable cities.
Handmade
Contemporary craft, digital hacking, interactivities and diy culture. A
new maker community is emerging, connecting the culture of traditional
skills and materials with modern-day digital production, distribution
and interaction techniques. FutureEverything invites makers to create
objects, installations and performances that explore the
cross-fertilisation of new and traditional media and materials.
For more info and to make a submission click here.