FutureEverything Blog

FutureEverything as Living Lab – The best way to predict the future is to invent it

Drew Hemment — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:03:28 +0000

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.

Vacouver in Summary

Paul Robinson — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:18:34 +0000

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

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São Paulo: Statements

Dave Mee — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:06:38 +0000

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

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Serendipity City Statements: Sendai

Jon Grant — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:16:19 +0000

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

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Istanbul: Serendipity City Challenge Statements

rachael.turner — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:40:50 +0000

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.

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Serendipity City Challenge – Vancouver Statements

Paul Robinson — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:54:52 +0000

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,

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British Council: exploring new ways of connecting people and ideas

louise.wright — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:13:46 +0000

I am writing this on the eve of the inaugural FutureEverything festival in Manchester. I am about to visit Contact Theatre to view one of the test runs for GloNet and can’t wait to converse with GloNet teams from across the Atlantic. So what is GloNet and why is the British Council involved? Well the British Council

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São Paulo – Serendipity City of the South

Dave Mee — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:26:55 +0000

I’m Dave, and the GloNet facilitator shipped out to São Paulo, Brasil. I’m here to explore themes of transitory geographies, public representation and interaction within the human environment, and I’ll be doing that in one of the world’s foremost megacities. I’ll be conducting this work with a group of really exciting artists and cultural producers,

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Vancouver: another serendipituous city

Paul Robinson — Tue, 11 May 2010 04:23:55 +0000

It’s probably best I introduce myself as this is my first blog post here – I’m Paul Robinson of Vagueware and Fly The Coop, and I am also the geek working with Julian Tait at Future Everything to bring Open Data to the Manchester community. I am also the GloNet Champion for Vancouver, and as I

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Serendipity City Challenge: Istanbul

rachael.turner — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:16:31 +0000

I’m heading to Istanbul to lead a workshop as part of FutureEverything’s GloNet conference. 2010 is the Capital of Culture year for the city, so it’s exciting to be on my way to Turkey for the first time. Tomorrow I’ll be joining a number of the city’s luminaries from the arts and political

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