Hello Lamp Post Singapore by Pan Studio

Dates: 10 - 18 October | Times: Anytime | Venue: Across Singapore

A near-future interactive urban experiment which sees objects across the city come to life and chat. Hello Lamp Post encourages everyone to rediscover their local environment, share hopes and dreams for a future Singapore, and uncover the stories that other people leave behind.

Every object in Hello Lamp Post has a name and number, in the form of identification codes. Players can talk to the objects by sending personal SMS messages to the number 85148312 with a hashtag followed by the identification code. Objects include all lamp posts, post boxes, utility boxes or telegraph poles - and even the Merlion. Look out for the yellow signs around Singapore, or any object with a unique reference code. Then work your way across the city to discover new conversations. Who knows what secrets you might uncover?

For information, here is a video on how you use the system: http://bit.ly/1OBHurb and here’s Tree Potatoes take on it: http://bit.ly/1YTBtuX

An information point for Hello Lamp Post will be held at the Cathay, 2 Handy Road, Singapore 229233.

ProgrammeA week long festival of digital culture which presents new ideas and experiences for a future Smart Nation. The programme includes: City-wide art and design installations, a conference and innovation lab.

The Chronarium Sleep Lab by Loop.Ph

Dates: 10 - 15 October | Times: 10am - 10pm | Venue: The Cathay Mall, 2 Handy Road, Singapore 229233

The Chronarium is a public sleep laboratory for a Smart Nation offering restorative sleep in smart sleep pods as an antidote to always-on city living. Visitors entering The Chronarium find an immersive audiovisual environment. Biometric data generate stimuli that reset their internal circadian rhythm for better, more harmonious sleep. Singaporeans are invited to lie back and rest inside a huge hanging catenary net that gently rocks and moves inside the textile space. The cyclical audiovisual programme has been developed in consultation with a leading sleep scientist and looks to train the brain by encouraging a deep relaxation and rest over a 10-15 minute period using pink noise and a wash of coloured light.

Signals of Tomorrow Innovation Lab

Dates: 10 - 14 October | Venue: National Design Centre

Our Innovation Labs provide a platform for the brightest digital minds to share ideas and further the debate around digital culture and society. The Signals of Tomorrow Innovation Lab will devise imaginative ways to engage the public in envisioning the future of technology and a Smart Nation. Involving narrative scenarios, critical thinking, rapid prototyping and participatory art, this workshop will aim to produce unique, creative perspectives on the developing landscape evolving around new technology.

On day one, professional and community groups work with the design facilitators to develop scenarios for the future of Singapore. International and Singaporean designers and artists then lead creative teams to develop prototypes that give physical or digital form to the future scenarios. The best prototype will be awarded funding to be developed into a large scale participatory experience to be presented at the FutureEverything Manchester festival in 2016.

The innovation lab is by prior registration only, but if you would like to visit please email: natalie@futureeverything.org by the 8th October.

Signals of Tomorrow Showcase

Dates: 17 - 18 October | Times: 10am - 7pm | Venue: ArtScience Museum

The prototypes developed at the Signals of Tomorrow Innovation Lab will be displayed at the ArtScience Museum. Visitors will be able to talk to the teams behind the ideas during the showcase, and experience an aspect of the future scenarios through physical or digital prototypes and short films.

The Signals of Tomorrow Conference

Date: Saturday 18 October | Times: 10.15am - 6.40pm |Venue: ArtScience Museum 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore, 018956

The FutureEverything Singapore conference will look at how life, work and play have been fundamentally transformed by technology, and aims to contribute to the national conversation in Singapore on the place of smart technology in society and culture. Singapore is building the world’s first Smart Nation, and FutureEverything Singapore explores this vision for the future of Singapore through the lens of design, art and digital culture. The conference will look at how Singapore reached this new horizon, ask what’s next, and seek to explore the boundaries of technology, culture and society.

What is a Smart Nation, and what does it mean to be a smart citizen? Where are artists, designers, futurists and civic innovators playing with the technology that is weaving itself into the fabric of our cities, economies and infrastructure? FutureEverything Singapore hopes to contribute to the dialogue between society and technology, and to bridge across sectors, specialisms, communities, places and scales. Presented in partnership with ArtScience Museum.

The conference is on a first come, first served basis so arrive early!

Welcome

10.00 Arrival10.15 Honor Harger, Director, ArtScience Museum10.20 Drew Hemment, Founder and Creative Director, FutureEverything10.25 Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources

Living Smart

How technology has impacted life at a profound level, often interacting with us in fascinating and unanticipated ways. What is ‘smart’, how did we get here, and what can we expect to see next?

10.50 Scott Smith, Changeist 11.10 Sara Watson, Technology Critic11.30 Andrea Nanetti, Singapore Nanyang Technological University11.50 Q&A 12.10 Break

Designing the Data City

How to design with data to make cities more liveable at human scale, and to answer urgent challenges. Can we use data to tackle important issues such as urban density, sustainability and an ageing population?

12.25 Jacquline Poh, IDA12.40 Nick R Smith, Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College12.55 Dan Hill, Associate Director, Arup13.15 Q&A 13.30 Lunch

Playing the City

How artists, makers, designers and grassroots communities can imagine and build future cities. Where are creatives working with technology to shape urban spaces and take part in the development of a Smart Nation?

14.30 Ayesha Khanna, The Keys Academy 14.55 Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, DesignSwarm15.20 Usman Haque, Umbrellium 15.45 Q&A16.10 Break

The Smart Nation Speaks

The aspirations and issues that people in Singapore have for the future of a Smart Nation. Discussion of future scenarios and insights generated in the Innovation Lab and the urban experiment Hello Lamp Post.

16.25 Sam Hill & Ben Barker, PAN Studios with Drew Hemment 16.45 Cheryl Chung, Deputy Director, Strategic Planning, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy 17.10 Tong Yee, The Thought Collective17.35 Aaron Maniam, Industry Division at Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore)18.00 Discussion18.25 Drew Hemment - Thank you, close of conference

Please note: Due to the strong interest in the this event, registration will be required and admission will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration will be on the day itself at 9.30am and 2pm.

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