FutureEverything


fictional magazine (pdf) ECAS WP 4 - Stage

FutureEverything 2014
27.03. - 01.04.2014 / Manchester, UK

The FutureEverything festival took place in March 2014, with a two day conference, world premières of participatory artworks, and a city-wide programme of innovative live music.

In its 19th year, the festival brought people together to discover, share and experience new ideas about the future. Pioneering the idea of a ‘festival as laboratory’, it combined innovative art and performance with new technology, insightful discussion and playful social experimentation. The conference brought together over 700 international delegates from design, urbanism, art, business and academia.

Taking the theme of ‘Tools for Unknown Futures’, the festival explored how we can collaborate on new tools, devices and systems to transform many spheres of life, from the arts to democracy. Drawing on powerful currents in today’s design scene, it opened up the debate our fascination with tools as the most natural path towards social change, and new ways to question, imagine and make the strange, troubled thing called the future.

ECAS supported events during the festival:
Discussion Panels31.03. - 01.04.2014
Date31.03.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘Superfictions: Design for Social Dreaming’
ParticipantsAlexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Koert van Mensvoort, Tobias Revell
LocationRoom 1 - Great Hall Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/superfictions-design-social-dreaming/
https://vimeo.com/100634511

DescriptionThis session gathers accomplished designers that are developing speculative narratives and social scenarios, to rehearse how different our everyday lives can be under the regimes of emerging technologies like genomics, synthetic biology, new materials or robotics.
Video Recording
 
Date31.03.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘Data Driven Football’
ParticipantsScott Smith, John O'Shea
LocationRoom 2 - Banqueting Hall Manchester Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/data-driven-football/


DescriptionOver 90 minutes, Scott Smith and John O'Shea, guide you on a journey through the strange world of Data-Driven Football.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date31.03.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘Critical Making’
ParticipantsGolan Levin, Garnet Hertz, Justin McGuirk
LocationRoom 1 - Great Hall Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/critical-making/
http://vimeo.com/100631185

DescriptionThis session explores whether Critical Making – understood as the practice of questioning and reimagining tools – is a necesary practice today, and how can it be a culturally relevant form.
photosFlickr Gallery
Video Recording
 
Date31.03.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘Cities: Urban Play’
ParticipantsPaul Graham Raven, Liam Young, Holly Gramazio, Esteban Fuertes Gonzalez, Aurora González-Adalid Nuñez, David Jacques Leon Berkvens
LocationRoom 1 - Great Hall Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/cities-urban-play/
http://vimeo.com/106916579

DescriptionThis session gathers urbanists that are mapping the geographies of the fantastic all over the globe, along with speculative engineers, architects developing pop up experiments to reinvigorate decayed spaces, and game designers creating ludic experiences that infiltrate our streets and squares. This session will reflect on the City Fictions pop-up urban experiment in this years festival.
Video Recording
 
Date31.03.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘How to Create a Tool’
ParticipantsTomas Diez, Rachel Rayns, Alexander Gluhak
LocationRoom 1 - Great Hall Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/create-tool/
https://vimeo.com/100607997

DescriptionIn this session, Tomas Diez, founder of the promising Smart Citizen sensing platform, and Alex Gluhak from Intel’s Intelligent Cities Lab, discuss how citizen bottom-up and industry’s top-down platforms can exist in the same ecosystem.
Video Recording
 
Date01.04.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘City API’
ParticipantsDan Hill, Emer Coleman, Katalin Gallyas
Location
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/city-api/
http://vimeo.com/100709962

DescriptionThe lines are blurring between what happens inside city government and what happens outside. There is increasing sophistication in tools and platforms for both government and citizens, but there are real challenges for city councils to run genuinely open platforms at city scale.
photosFlickr Gallery
Video Recording
 
Date01.04.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘New Shape of Things’
ParticipantsDan Williams, Tom Armitage, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Clare Reddington
LocationRoom 1 - Great Hall Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/new-shape-things-2/
http://vimeo.com/100759334

DescriptionThis session investigates how connected objects can become a sophisticated language for creative exploration beyond the canonical visions of the Internet of Things industry.
photosFlickr Gallery
Video Recording
 
Date01.04.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘Innovation from Developing Worlds’
ParticipantsFelipe Altenfelder Silva, Josh Harvey, Dan McQuillan, Ruth Daniel
LocationRoom 2 - Banqueting Hall Manchester Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/innovation-developing-worlds-2/


DescriptionThis session explores how revolutionary new methods of using existing tools is developing new worlds, and are prompting new methods of advocating change.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date01.04.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘Building Creative Institutions’
ParticipantsBen Vickers, Seb Chan, Mia Ridge, Alex Fleetwood
Location
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/building-creative-institutions/
http://vimeo.com/100643197

Description
photosFlickr Gallery (Seb Chan)
Flickr Gallery (all participants)
Video Recording
 
Date01.04.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘The Secret Lives of Systems and Services’
ParticipantsEleanor Saitta, Adam Harvey, James Bridle
LocationRoom 1 - Great Hall Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/secret-lives-systems-services-2/
http://vimeo.com/100759335

DescriptionIn the aftermath of the Snowden scandal, as we learned that services and products that we use every day are facilitating unprecedented levels of surveillance or our personal lives, it becomes more urgent to understand what our common tools are actually doing as we use them, beyond our face value perception.
photosFlickr Gallery (Adam Harvey)
Flickr Gallery (James Bridle)
Video Recording
 
Date01.04.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘The Data Economy’
ParticipantsIrene Ng, Volker Buscher, Simon Giles, Neil Crockett
LocationRoom 1 - Great Hall Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/data-economy/


DescriptionThis session explores the emerging economics and design paradigms that can sustain the technologies likely to have the major impact in the coming years.
photosFlickr Gallery (Irene Ng)
Flickr Gallery (Volker Buscher)
Flickr Gallery (Neil Crockett)
Video Recording
 
Date01.04.2014
ActionDiscussion Panel – ‘Big Data and the Arts’
ParticipantsSejul Malde, Juan Mateos-Garcia
LocationRoom 2 - Banqueting Hall Manchester Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/big-data-arts-workshop/


DescriptionIn this session we introduce some of the key findings from recent research and identify ways in which we can increase engagement.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Fireside Chat31.03.2014
Date31.03.2014
ActionFireside Chat
ParticipantsAdam Greenfield, Adrian Hon
LocationRoom 3 - Reception Room Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/fireside-chat-adrian-hon/
http://futureeverything.org/events/fireside-chat-adam-greenfield/

DescriptionFutureEverything Fireside Chats are a series of intimate, exploratory conversations with internationally renowned artists, designers, thinkers and business leaders from across the FutureEverything Festival programme.
photos Adam Greenfield (Flickr Gallery)
Adrian Hon (Flickr Gallery)
 
Talk - ‘Coming to terms with the Big Data inside us’ 01.04.2014
Date01.04.2014
ActionTalk - ‘Coming to terms with the Big Data inside us’
ParticipantsAbhay Adhikari
LocationRoom 2 - Banqueting Hall Manchester Town Hall, M60 2LA
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/coming-terms-big-data-inside-us/


DescriptionThis workshop explores the need for establishing a context when capturing, broadcasting and accessing data about our individual selves.
photos Flickr Gallery
 
Performances / DJ Sets28.03. - 01.04.2014
Date28.03.2014
ActionPerformance ‘Lumière’
ParticipantsRobert Henke
LocationRNCM Theatre 124 Oxford Road, M13 9RD
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/robert-henke-lumiere/


DescriptionLumière is a live audiovisual performance from acclaimed sound artist and producer Robert Henke. Three powerful white lasers draw rapid successions of ephemeral objects, seemingly floating in space, while the data used to draw the shapes is transformed into audible frequencies.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date30.03.2014
ActionPerformance ‘Projectors’ (World Première)
ParticipantsMartin Messier
LocationRNCM Theatre 124 Oxford Road, M13 9RD
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/martin-messier-projectors-world-premiere/
https://www.facebook.com/events/751407814873642/

DescriptionMartin Messier is a composer, performance artist and videographer whose work explores the relationship between electroacoustic music and other art forms through experimentation and collaboration.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date29.03.2014
ActionDJ Sets - 'Presented by Evian Christ'
ParticipantsLorenzo Senni, T C F, Visionist, Koreless, Evian Christ
LocationRNCM Theatre 124 Oxford Road, M13 9RD
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/presented-evian-christ-live-evian-christ-koreless-lorenzo-senni-visionist-tcf/


Description
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date30.03.2014
ActionPerformance - 'This World Made Itself + Zoomwooz Live Cinema'
ParticipantsMiwa Matreyek, Zoomwooz
LocationRNCM Theatre 124 Oxford Road, M13 9RD
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/miwa-matreyek-world-made-zoomwooz-live-cinema/


DescriptionAn event to delight adults and children alike combining live-cinema with hundreds of small hand painted paper models and live acting. This special matinee event launches FutureEverything’s new family programme on mothers’ day.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date01.04.2014
ActionPerformance Tim Hecker (Live) + Julianna Barwick
ParticipantsJulianna Barwick, Tim Hecker
LocationRNCM Theatre 124 Oxford Road, M13 9RD
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/tim-hecker-live-julianna-barwick/


DescriptionFor more than a decade, Tim Hecker has been at the forefront of artists working in sonic sculpture and at the intersection of electronic and acoustic composition.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date28.03.2014
ActionDJ Sets - 'Faktion Special'
ParticipantsMika Vainio, Source Direct, Ninos du Brasil, EVOL
LocationIslington Mill 1 James Street, Salford, M3 5HW
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/mika-vainio-source-direct-ninos-du-brasil-nico-vascellari-evol/


DescriptionFutureEverything further a long-running alliance with Faktion, one of the UK’s premier promoters of forward-facing music, to present a pairing of dance music auteurs and cutting edge, extreme music pioneers.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date29.03.2014
ActionPerformance - 'Longplayer for Voices'
ParticipantsLongplayer
LocationRNCM Carol Nash Recital Room 124 Oxford Road, M13 9RD
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/longplayer-voices-listening-post/


DescriptionDeveloping a version of Longplayer that depends purely on the human voice strips away the uncertainties attached to the future of technology and is a significant development in the projects on-going story.
photos
 Flickr Gallery
Installations28.03. - 03.04.2014
Date28.03. - 03.04.2014
ActionInstallation – 'Winning Formula' at the National Football Museum
ParticipantsNear Future Laboratory
LocationNational Football Museum, City Fictions, Urbis Building, Cathedral Gardens, Todd St, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M4 3BG
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/winning-formula/


DescriptionThrough narrative and design fiction this installation highlights the implications of an intensifying relationship between data and football.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionInstallation – 'A History of the Future in 100 Objects' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsAdrian Hon
LocationOld Bank, City Fictions, Hanover Street, NOMA, M4 4AH
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/history-future-100-objects/


DescriptionAn exhibition of fictional objects presented at the City Fictions museum, which presents speculative objects from the future rather than relics from the past.
photos‘City Fictions’ Flickr Gallery
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionInstallation – 'Bio Strike' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsAsa Calow, Cathrine Kramer, Martin Malthe Borch, Pieter van Boheemen, Zack Denfeld
LocationNew Century House, City Fictions, Corporation St, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/bio-strike/


DescriptionAn installation and workshop invites visitors to City Fictions to experience a future when food and DIY biomedical science collide.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionInstallation – 'Parliament of Urban Rights' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsZuloark
LocationNew City Square, City Fictions, Next to New Century House, NOMA, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/parliament-urban-rights/


DescriptionA free-access, temporary debating space constructed of wood, open to anyone in Manchester to use for civic purposes, such as neighbour or friend meetings and assemblies.
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionInstallation – 'Hello Everything' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsPAN Studios
LocationNew City Square, City Fictions, Next to New Century House, NOMA, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/hello-lamp-post/


DescriptionHello Everything is an opportunity for visitors to share, via SMS, their own urban visions, fictions and narratives – with the street objects around them and the institutions embodied across the site.
 
Date29.03.2014
ActionInstallation – 'BUQs' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsJoris Hoogeboom, Teun Verkerk
LocationNew City Square, City Fictions, Next to New Century House, NOMA, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/buqs/


DescriptionBUQs (Ubiquitous Electronic Lifeforms) is a swarm of autonomous, electronic lifeforms, communicating with each other, invading surfaces within the built environment and using them for the creation of sounds.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionInstallation – 'SerenA, You Are Not Here' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsNicky Kirk, Mel Woods
LocationNew City Square, City Fictions, Next to New Century House, NOMA, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/you-are-not-here/


DescriptionThe fictional city is an information rich environment, both real and imagined.
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionInstallation – 'NoPayPhone' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsBen Dalton
LocationNew Art Spaces, Federation House, City Fictions, Manchester. Corner of Federation St and Balloon St.,
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/nopayphone/


DescriptionNoPayPhone explores the notion of phone boxes as a symbol of privacy, and helps to confuse targeted advertising and profiling by your mobile phone operator and any third-party surveillance of call metadata.
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionInstallation – 'CoGet: Things Move People Around' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsDesign Informatics
LocationNew City Square, City Fictions, Next to New Century House, NOMA, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/coget-things-move-people-around/


DescriptionCo-things is a public experiment that uses software to predict where things need to be, and borrows the legs of humans to move them.
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionInstallation – '5th Dimensional Camera' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsSuperflux
LocationOld Bank, City Fictions, Hanover Street, NOMA, M4 4AH
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/5th-dimensional-camera/


DescriptionThe 5th Dimensional Camera blends physics and speculative design to translate Hugh Everett's 'Many Worlds' theory of quantum mechanics into a tangible prototype.
 
Showcase - 'Futures 10' for exhibition 'City Fictions'29.03. - 30.03.2014
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionShowcase - 'Futures 10' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsStefanie Posavec, James Bridle, Ben Hammersley, Superflux, Lisa Kori & Caitlin Morris (Fabrica), Francis Bitonti, Alex Box, Peter Gregson, Rohan Gunatillake, Lauren Bowker
LocationOld Bank, City Fictions, Hanover Street, NOMA, M4 4AH
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/futures-10/


DescriptionFutures 10 is a showcase of wearable prototypes.
 
Participatory art and events29.03. - 30.03.2014
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionParticipatory art – 'Social Capital' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsBlank Media Collective
LocationNew City Square, City Fictions, Next to New Century House, NOMA, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/blank-media-collective-social-capital/


DescriptionBlank Media Collective are setting up a workshop and construction site in New City Square. They are fabricating experimental building blocks for a participatory sculpture and temporary monument.
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionParticipatory art – 'CV Dazzle Anon Salon' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsAdam Harvey
LocationNew City Square, City Fictions, Next to New Century House, NOMA, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/cv-dazzle-anon-salon/


DescriptionA hair and makeup salon at City Fictions gives visitors a free anti-surveillance and facial recognition makeover to make them invisible to ‘Big Brother’.
photosFlickr Gallery
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionParticipatory art – 'Pink Sheet Method' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsThickear
LocationNew Century House, City Fictions, Corporation St, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/pink-sheet-method/


DescriptionA triptychal response to Data As Culture involves processes of data collection, exhibition, re-examination and degradation taking place in three locations.
 
Date29.03.2014
ActionParticipatory event – 'Storystorm' for exhibition 'City Fictions'
ParticipantsMel Woods
LocationNew City Square, City Fictions, Next to New Century House, NOMA, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/storystorm/


DescriptionStorystorm is a forum for citizens and groups to try out or respond to any area of civic future.
 
Creative workshops29.03. - 30.03.2014
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionCreative workshop – 'Fixperts Hub'
ParticipantsHelen Cresswell, Tom Cox
LocationNew Art Spaces, Federation House, City Fictions, Manchester. Corner of Federation St and Balloon St.,
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/fixperts-hub/


DescriptionComprising of a library, makerspace and gallery, it aims to share knowledge, skills and tools and engage communities in thinking about the value of fixing through film, active demonstrations and workshops.
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionCreative workshop – 'Critical 3D Printing'
ParticipantsGolan Levin
LocationNew Art Spaces, Federation House, City Fictions, Manchester. Corner of Federation St and Balloon St.,
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/critical-3d-printing/


DescriptionA Family Workshop in 3D Printing: Concepts, Techniques, and Workflows.
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionCreative workshop – 'Punchcard Economy Workshop'
ParticipantsSam Meech
LocationNew Art Spaces, Federation House, City Fictions, Manchester. Corner of Federation St and Balloon St.,
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/punchcard-economy-workshop/


DescriptionPunchcard Economy banners are large­ scale knitted data­ visualisation works, based on the Robert Owen's 8 Hour Day Movement slogan: '8 Hours Labour, 8 Hours Recreation, 8 Hours Rest'.
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionCreative workshop – 'Benjolin Analogue Synth Workshop'
ParticipantsRob Hordijk, Joker Nies
LocationNew Art Spaces, Federation House, City Fictions, Manchester. Corner of Federation St and Balloon St.,
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/benjolin-analogue-synth/


DescriptionThe Benjolin is a ‘noise box’ that is ‘bent by design’, meaning that it always has an amount of unpredictability while still being intuitive to play.
 
Date29.03. - 30.03.2014
ActionCreative workshop – 'BUQs Workshop'
ParticipantsJoris Hoogeboom, Teun Verkerk
LocationNew Art Spaces, Federation House, City Fictions, Manchester. Corner of Federation St and Balloon St.,
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/buqs-workshop-2/


DescriptionBUQs (Ubiquitous Electronic Lifeforms)’, the data network at City Fictions is alive, comprising a swarm of autonomous, electronic lifeforms, communicating with each other, invading surfaces within the built environment and using them for the creation of sounds.
 
Date29.03.2014
ActionCreative workshop – 'BBC Connected Studio: The Future of Media'
ParticipantsLaura Harrison
LocationNew Century House, City Fictions, Corporation St, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M60 4ES
Sponsoring PartnersFutureEverything
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Online References http://futureeverything.org/events/bbc-connected-studio-future-media-3/


DescriptionConnected Studio is a new approach to deliver innovation at scale by bringing BBC staff closer to the wider Digital industry.
photosFlickr Gallery
 


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