The creators of LiveFutures 2020 believe innovation occurs in the meeting of different expertise. As well as hearing from guest speakers Chris Vanstone from The Australian Centre for Social Innovation, Tim Jarvis Arctic Explorer and Filmmaker, Dianne Moy from the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab, Brian Lennon of Beyond Zero Emissions, Selena Griffiths and Janine Cahill of Live Futures, Live Futures 2020 would like to hear from you!
Why is the idea of co-creating the future important? Lots of areas are now realising the benefits of cross-disciplinary study, how psychology influences interior design for example, and how permaculture assists new ideas about food production and even architecture. The idea is to create a positive future, a future everyone wants to live in.
Exciting partnerships have been developed between designers, artists, scientists, and researchers from both UNSW and Industry. Future Story is one such way we can get our vision of the future to the forum. Follow the Call for Works link on http://futurestory.com.au/ and submit your video or ideas. We’re focused on the collective knowledge of creative teams, paired with fresh perspectives. For example find Lucy Wang’s project from last year’s festival on the future story site.
LiveFutures2020 is all about partnerships, friendships, and conversations. The festival works with the community to design the future by drawing on what has already been discovered and building on that through collaboration with other disciplines, to put a constructive concept of the future to work. The goals have been set, now we get to see if we can make it happen! Language and expression are an important part of this. By expressing art and science in a language that admits rather than excludes, it prepares the youth and makes this language one we can all understand, especially in light of the progressions that will come in the years to come.
So how do ideas like DNA sequencing, gene function analysis and nano-technology find their way into visual art? The answer is through research and collaboration between these traditionally juxtaposed disciplines: art and science. The design of a strain of DNA can inform both those investigating the aesthetic of something, and the way it works. Similar to how science has recently been viewed through the lenses of economy, culture and environment. Not only can we gain a greater understanding of the way we can design the future, we can strive to meet the goals our millennium asked of us. With the new ways we are sharing knowledge we begin to see a deeper meaning of the role of government and how we can interact with our future.
The festival is an idea that is intended to develop in stages, an Open Innovation platform exploring new technology and media that feeds into science week. The Creative Nexus Collaboration is actually a space, where lots of creative people are putting their theories to the test in the form of installations and interactive games. Scientists are mucking in and getting their hands dirty, artists and designers are putting their concepts into real, live physical terms. It’s all about making and having fun, but getting our heads around the new knowledge we’re going to need to get ready for the future.
So how will this concept of collaboration affect the way we approach the next phase of life on the planet? By unifying the previously opposing creative forces a larger system of ideas presents itself, accelerating change, with sustainability in mind, to reduce the impacts of people on the planet.
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by Ryan McLean
