2010 Program

LIVE FUTURES 2020 FESTIVAL

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The 2010 program will bring back popular features of the previous year as well as show exciting new projects and activities:

Inspiring Speakers

11am – Janine Cahill – CEO Future Journeys & Live Futures 2020 Festival Director
Ian Howard – Dean College of Fine Arts (UNSW)
12pm – Brian Lennon – BZE Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Stationary Energy Plan
1pm – Dianne Moy – Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab
2pm – Tim Jarvis – Environmental Scientist, Arctic Explorer & Filmmaker
3pm – Chris Vanstone – Social Innovation Designer at TACSI
5pm – Selena Griffith – Senior Lecturer COFA & Live Futures 2020 Festival Director
Janine Cahill – CEO Future Journeys & Live Futures 2020 Festival Director

For more information on the speakers see 2010 Speakers.

Creative Nexus Collaboration

The projects are collaborations between art students and scientists resulting in art installations explaining a scientific process or theory in a different more accessible way such as an art installation.

2010 Nexus Collaboration will feature for example:

Carlo Lina’s photographic proposal will see him collaborate with actors from NIDA, and digital imaging and animation artists to construct flood scenarios and document their impact. Perhaps through the collusion of urban planners, architects and anthropologists the possibility to harness the power of flood-waters into water sensitive design, provide the basis for permaculture, drought management, to inform our scientists about of better ways to use hydroelectric power energy for the future.

This work includes collaboration with prosthetic design practitioners, playful and provocative statement, what SHAN describes as an offering, a mixing of ingredients to extract a potent response. The work deals with new technology in the area of prosthesis and the proposal is aimed at informing and encouraging discourse on the proliferation of nuclear weapons throughout the world.

For more information on the Nexus projects please read Ryan’s blog post Nexus Project: College of Fine Arts.

When: 10am – 5pm
Where: F Block, Room F114 & corridor Level 1

Future Story – Final Exhibition

Future Story is presented by Live Futures 2020 and is part of Sydney Design 2010, presented by the Powerhouse Museum.

FutureStory comprises short 1-minute and 3-minute videos of experts and the public sharing their visions of the future and how they are creating it today through their work, lifestyle and projects.

The main purpose of this public installation is to GENERATE THOUGHT about how the urban landscape, digital media, social networking can be utilised to create a positive future. The project is about starting CONVERSATIONS, BUILDING CONNECTIONS and deepening the experience of COMMUNITY through communication and sharing.

FutureStory will inspire Sydneysiders to comment on other stories in written or video format.
Come and see the final exhibition inspiring video content on 14th August between 10am and 5pm at the Live Futures 2020 Festival.

When: 10am – 5pm
Where: F Block, Room F316

For more information visit www.futurestory.com.au

Niche

Niche by Tega Brain is an interactive and generative animation of imaginary plant life. Different plant species grow within the projected environment and each species requires specific conditions to grow and survive.

Movement in the installation space is detected in real time via a camera installed on the ceiling. As the viewer moves through the projection they affect the growth of the digital ecosystem. Their movement typically kills plant individuals and alters local conditions within the projected environment creating different ecological niches. This creates opportunities for different species. This system explores interactivity and ecological issues such as sensitivity, competition and symbiosis.

Niche is representation of the evolution and function of a natural ecosystem. Different species support one another and changing system conditions change species success. Concepts of sensitivity, interdependency and complexity are explored.

When: 10am – 5pm
Where: F Block, Room F114

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‘I Will… Project

‘I Will… Project’ is a continually evolving and interactive photographic artwork aimed at encouraging social change by emphasising the importance of the individual (that’s you!).

Using paper, pen, a Polaroid 300 and a huge map of Sydney (designed by recent COFA graduate Joseph Porpiglia) ‘I Will… Project’ is an interactive artwork that prompts you into immediate action.

The process is simple. You write down a precise statement about how you’ll personally contribute to a positive future, take a Polaroid and pin it on the map. In doing so you’ll demonstrate the first small step one person can take to make an important difference, and, as a result, inspire others to do the same.

Come and write your pledge, play with a Polaroid 300 and take part in this interactive artwork.

When: 10am – 5pm
Where: F Block, Room F119

For more information on Anna Zhu Photography, visit http://www.annazhu.com/

Future Kucha

Short interactive presentations that will just capture the essence of the presenter’s project and leave you inspired to explore the rest of the festival. It is a space for young innovators, entrepreneurs, designers, scientists and everyone else to show their work in public. Everyone is welcome to present or show their work.

When: 3pm – 4.30pm
Where: E Block, Room E101

Borrowing from the PechaKucha format we invite you to present and bring 20 images you think represent the future we should / could have and to show each for 20 seconds. Presentation spaces are limited so to get you chance please book here http://livefutures2010.eventbrite.com/

Theatre of Alternative Realities – Babushka Productions

The Theatre of Alternative Realities will be back in 2010. Performing Arts offer a playful way of engaging people deeply with Live Futures 2020 and this year we collaborate with Babushka Productions.

Babushka Productions create engaging dramatic arts based programs at schools and will showcase a performance by Sydney Girls High School year 7 & 8 students of what they have learned in their drama lessons. These ‘Vignettes of the Future’ will be seen within different areas of the festival at the following times:
12:30pm – 1pm
3:30pm – 4pm

Babushka Productions will also run a workshop:
Babushka Productions Drama based workshop explores FutureStories through fun, entertaining improvisations. Come and learn the games, get involved as a participant or enjoy the spectacle as an observer.

Join the workshops at the following times:
11:15am – 12:15pm
1:15pm – 3:00pm

Social Innovation BarCamp

The inaugural Social Innovation BarCamp Sydney is part of LiveFutures 2010 and will bring together the minds who are now working towards social innovation.

This BarCamp Unconference will be an open conversation where anyone can share their thoughts, ideas and ambitions

What is an Unconference BarCamp? It’s open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants

It’s like a day camp, you don’t need your sleeping bag, you can go home at the end of the day.

Our society has seen incredible growth and progress in industry, technology and communication. Social Innovation is the process of inventing, securing support for, and implementing novel solutions to needs and problems.

9.30am – 5:30pm, F Block, Level 2

Permaculture Workshop

Cameron Little from Sustainability Systems & Services will run a display promoting permaculture practice. He will bring some of his sustainable event resources such as the Worm Trailer to help to compost all food waste from the event and a Solar Powered Ice Cream Cart with yummy ice cream.

With an ever increasing list of global ecological challenges coming to our attention it is vital that we actively learn and engage with new ways of living for the future. Permaculture, a design system for sustainable human habitation, is one of these solutions. With its foundations based in the use of ethical considerations, science and observations from nature, it has become a truly a global movement. More popular now than ever, Permaculture was developed in Australia in the 1970s and espouses consideration of environmental, social and economic factors to help us to live within our planetary means. Come to the Sustainability Systems & Services display at Live Futures 2020 to find out what permaculturists from across Sydney are doing to make their homes, their communities and their city a more sustainable place.

When: 10am – 5pm
Where: library courtyard

For more information contact:
Cameron Little, Sustainability Systems & Services
info@sustainabilitysystems.com.au
www.sustainabilitysystems.com.au

Watershed Freight Bikes

The Watershed will be introducing newly acquired Freight Bikes as part of the Bike Library and showcase them on 14th August at the Festival. We will be transporting equipment, filming with helmet cameras and show off FutureStory as well as these awesome bikes, it’s amazing how much can be transported with a freight bike. Ever thought of moving furniture by bike…? Can you imagine Sydney full of bikes? This is the future… Come check it out!

The Watershed Bike Library is a library of specialist bikes and equipment for use by local residents, businesses and
visitors.

The Watershed is a green living centre in the heart of Newtown. The Watershed is dedicated to growing a culture of environmental sustainability within the urban community.

When: 10am – 5pm
Where: library courtyard

SRD Live Futures Graduate Workshop

The SRD Live Futures Graduate Workshop is open to all final year design students from any discipline. Students can present the graduate project they are working on for feedback from a panel of academics and professionals with expertise in Sustainable Design. Students can also just attend and hear feedback on other projects.

When: 1pm to 3pm
Where: F Block, Room F117
Register here: http://livefutures2010.eventbrite.com/

Sustainable Responsible Design is a new direction that requires complete revision of thought and of action. The many questions raised however will only stimulate the number and sophistication of long term solutions through innovative design and problem solving processes. The Society for Responsible Design is an incorporated, independent, not-for-profit, volunteer run organisation who aims to provide some of the answers to those many questions.

For more information on The Society for Responsible Design visit http://www.green.net.au/srd/

Interactive Sculptures

Ian Burns, Australian born artist based in New York facilitated creative workshops for Ashfield residents producing interactive sculptures. His work has been described as fascinating, dark, humorous, novel, fun, engaging, interactive, hypnotic, unsettling, Wizard of Oz gone straight….

Kinetic motorised sculptures,basic electronics, analogue input, digital input, microcontroller programming, wires and connections all come in to play in the creation of techno sculptures.

Some of the interactive sculptures produced during Ian’s workshop this year as well as some video material of the sculptures will be exhibited at Live Futures 2020.

When: 10am – 5pm
Where: F Block, Room F121

HowToons – for the youngsters and the ‘young at heart’

The children activities were introduced to attract families to the festival considering how children could be engaged in thinking creatively about the future. Following a high demand in these activities in 2009, further activities will be implemented in 2010 to create a stronger engagement of families with Live Futures 2020.

HowToons will be included again in the 2010 festival. HowToons are cartoons that teach 8– to 15–year–old children “how to” build, create, and explore things, combining a fun, full–colour cartoon format and real life science and engineering principles, designed to encourage kids to become active participants in the world around them.

When: 10am – 5pm
Where: F Block, Room F121