Festival As Lab at Open Living Labs

Festival As LabOpenLivingLabs, Amsterdam, 2 September 2014

Drew HemmentCEO & Founder, FutureEverythingDundee Fellow & Reader, University of Dundee

FutureEverythingEst. 1995FutureEverything is an innovation agency, that presents city data services, design for science, innovation events, advice and training, art commissions, and experiences and demonstration.It's festival is both a cultural event and research vehicle, for experimentation in methods and mechanisms for research and knowledge exchange around the emergence of a digital culture.

The FestivalOverview

The FutureEverything Festival A global festival of ideas, art, invention



Festival 2010

Festival 2013

Festival 2009

Festival 2012

Festival 2008

Festival 2011

The annual festival4 days / 200 artists and speakers / 80 events / 20 venues.

Urban Interface (2009-10)

Smart Citizens (2013)

Globally Connected Events (2009-10)

Digital Public Space (2011-13)

Social Networking Unplugged (2008)

The Data Dimension (2010-2012)

LabsYear-round labs with city, culture, science and industry partners.

Festival As Lab - living lab

Academic InterfaceInternationally leading in the Research Excellence Framework

www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/feb/17/top-10-ideas-festivals

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/feb/17/top-10-ideas-festivals

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/feb/17/top-10-ideas-festivals

FutureEverythingWider Programme

FutureEverything Innovation Agency

Established 1995


Data Synchronisation ProgrammeLinking public sector data: release open data and unlock its potential; challenge

the data community to innovate

City Data Services


Data Insight

ArtsAPIInsight and value

through data analysis


Citizen Engagement

Smart Citizen Manchester(SMARTMCR) - Crowd sensing platform: measuring air quality


Art Commissions

emoto - London 2012 data visualisationVisualising audience response in real time


Design For Science

Climate ServicesDesign for science - data

visualisation, UX design, etc


Open Data Advocacy

ODI ManchesterOpen data advocacy


Publications

Smart Citizenseds Hemment, Townsend

Festival As LabEmergence of method

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Carl Sagan (Astronomer, Writer, Scientist)

Living Labs – 'in the wild'

Festival As Lab Art and participatory design methods combined with public trials.

Experiences and DemonstrationCity wide participatory experiences.

Prototyping the near futureUse of art and design prototypes to read and design the

future. Combining scenarios and ethnography, with methods such as 'Wizard of Oz'.

Art as mode of enquiry Art enables questions, tacit knowledge and the otherwise inexpressible to be externalised and given tangible form.

DataGM

Social InfrastructureResearch experiments with social infrastructure that endures.

Curating Innovation Putting into play of new patterned networks or

assemblages of people, ideas, things and actions.

Festival As Lab

Cities become laboratories for new ways of living, playing, governing, new

forms of citizenship.

Publishing and sharing methods, mechanisms

futureeverything.wikispaces.com

How can a festival become an innovation agency, and an innovation agency become a festival?

The Carnivalesque

Carnivalesque A temporary space and moment,

using humour and chaos to subvert social norms and liberate new ideas.

Festival As Lab A temporary space and moment,

using co-design and play to disrupt norms and liberate new ideas.

Festival As LabProjects

OurTravelFestival Navigator 'Field Trial'

ChattrReverse 'Wizard of OZ'

@Chattrleaks"This is like kissing whilst being watched."

City Fictions'Design Fiction' In The Wild

Digital Public Space

The Space

Blast Theory - I'd Hide You

FutureEverything Innovation Challenge Winner 2013

http://www.datagm.org.uk

http://www.datagm.org.uk

Environment 2.0Leonardo Special Section (and Prototype Artworks, Curated Exhibition)

Art Prototypes, Exhibition, Conference13-16 May 2009, Manchester UK

Project Development Workshop24-25 March 2009, Lancaster University

Perfect TimingWe need lots of measurements on the same day. The day will be announced online from May 10th and confirmed 24 hours before, so please check:www.futuresonic.com/bubbles

Play & UploadTake measurements by playing our two bubble games, then upload your results to our website to build a live map of wind patterns in Manchester.Turn over for full instructions

Both bubble games are intended to be played outside throughout Manchester. While playing the games please ensure that you think about your own safety and that of others. While chasing bubbles make sure that you do not run across roads or trespass onto other’s property. Do not drink the bubble liquid.Ensure that an adult is present at all times.

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BE PROUD.LOVE MANCHESTER.

Help build a climate model of Manchester by blowing bubbles!

Climate Bubbles: Manchester

Upload your results

x10 10 Metres

Note the location and time here... Note the location and time here...

Write the race time here...Note the end location here...

1 Start locationChoose somewhere easy to pinpoint on an online map, like the entrance to a park or just outside your house, somewhere it is safe to run around.Also record what time you start the chase.

2 Blow a bubble, Chase it, RepeatChase a single bubble until it pops, lands or floats somewhere you cannot follow. Blow another bubble from the finishing point. Repeat 5-10 times.

Be very careful not to run into a road or garden

1 Start locationChoose a start location. If you just completed a Bubble Run start right there!Remember to record the time of day you start the race.

2 Set the finish lineMark a 10 metre distance (10 large adult steps) from your start location in the direction of the wind.

3 Time a bubbleUse a stopwatch (or a mobile phone) to time how long it takes for a single bubble to reach the finish line. Try it with a friend.

3 End locationAfter 5-10 bubbles, record the final place you end up, so you can later pinpoint it online.

Climate Bubbles: Manchester

The Bubble Chase

www.futuresonic.com/bubbledata

The Bubble Race

Two playful, participatory bubble games which enable people across the city of Manchester to map air flow and the urban climate, devised by Futuresonic and the Met Office.Upload your results to our website to help the Met Office build a model of Manchester’s Urban Heat Island.

Perfect TimingWe need lots of measurements on the same day. The day will be announced online from May 10th and confirmed 24 hours before, so please check:

www.futuresonic.com/bubbles

Both bubble games are intended to be played outside throughout Manchester. While playing the games please ensure that you think about your own safety and that of others. While chasing bubbles make sure that you do not run across roads or trespass onto other’s property. Do not drink the bubble liquid.Ensure that an adult is present at all times.

Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas

BE PROUD.LOVE MANCHESTER.

Project Website

Bubble Blowing Kits Distributed City Wide (Or Make Your Own)

Bubble Blowing Games In Manchester

Project Website

“HOW FAR WILL WE ACCEPT PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS BEING

CAPTURED AND SHARED ONLINE?”

“WHAT ARE THE IMPLICIT RULES FOR EXCHANGES IN THESE NEW SPACES, AND

HOW DO VISITORS NEGOTIATE THESE?”

Consent Chat Transcribe Publish

chattr.cc @chattrleaks

RESEARCH METHODS

REFLECTIONS

• Implications of technology

• Experience of the project

• Trade offs

• Reputation of their pseudonym

BEHAVIOUR CHANGES

• Self censorship

• Gaming the system

• Deliberately controversial

• Talking to the machine

“This is like kissing whilst being watched... after a while you don't think about it anymore.”

Festival As LabKey Characteristics

Why Festivals?• Involve large numbers of people taking part in

experimental, playful activity. • Participatory spaces that nurture play, risk and

community creation. • Enable the free circulation of people and ideas,

connecting people at different levels, from grass roots to government and business leaders.

Festival As Lab CharacteristicsFestivals as agile RND environments for real-world rapid prototyping, open innovation and user-led design. • Experts and passionate amateurs coming

together to imagine and experience the future.•City as playspace - People and businesses play

and experiment with the infrastructure of a city.• These experiments devise and test innovations,

and generate visibility and engagement.

FestivalAsLab LivingLabpop-up,

light touchembedded, longitudinal

staged, extraordinary

real world, ordinary

wide engagement

deepengagement

Festival As Lab Differentiation

Different rule and permission spaces Art / research / commercial. Public space / private space.

Discussion

Call To ActionFutureEverything 201525-28 February 2015

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