Live Futures 2020 is coming back!!!
13th August 2011
College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW Paddington Campus.
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Inspiring Speakers
10am Welcome (Room EG02, E Block)
Welcome to Country – Michelle Williams – Social Innovation Sydney
Welcome to COFA – Selena Griffith – Senior Lecturer Design & Live Futures 2020 Festival Co-Director
Welcome to Live Futures 2020 - Janine Cahill – CEO Future Journeys & Live Futures 2020 Festival Director
10.15 am- Anthony Baxter – Google Org (Room EG02, E Block)
Anthony is a geek who works at Google Australia. Among other things, he works with Google.org’s Crisis Response team on rapid response to disasters. He also tweets @anthonybaxter.
This team has helped out during a number of disasters, for example:
- Japan Earthquake and Tsunami,
- Christchurch Earthquake,
- Brazil Floods and Landslides, and the
- Australia Floods.
Anthony is going to talk about some of the Crisis Response activities, things they’ve learned, and some ways that we can help make the world a better and safer place.
11am – Lightning talks by local activists in social innovation (Room EG02, E Block)
organised by our partners from Social Innovation Sydney
- Carla McGrath of the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence on Indigenous Innovation & social change
- Kate Harris of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership on social innovation in environment/sustainability
- Karalee Evans formerly of Headspace and influential in the area of mental health & suicide prevention
- Lauren Anderson talking Collaborative Consumption
- Kate Carruthers on Gov 2.0 and new approaches to Government in the Digital Age
- Jess Nichols of the Sydney chapter of The Awesome Foundation talking about giving grants to ‘awesome’ social innovations
- UNSW students & prize winners of global initiative Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) briefing us on their portfolio of social innovation initiatives (this is the student association that helped in Random acts of kindness
Future Story – Final Exhibition
Future Story is a project of Live Futures 2020
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 – 4.30pm
Where: F Block, Room: F117
For more information visit www.futurestory.com.au
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: 3.00pm – 4.30pm
Where:Room EG02 – E Block
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 your presentation space by sending an email to info@livefutures2020.com
Some of the presentations at Future Kucha are:
Julee Cunningham
New integrative approaches to western medicine. What can happen when mind/ body are considered as one, when patient and doctor collaborate in unearthing core emotional disturbances. What are the implications for medicine & economics.
Catalina Vallejos
#DUMPHAUS – morphing an idea into a reality, at will, and ethereally as well. Each instance of #DUMPHAUS begins with an emotional escape into physicality.
http://dumpha.us/
Kelvin Mui
X-Rayed – Transform your future through photography
http://www.karasudesigns.com/retouching.html
Penny Elsley
Joining the dots – exploring connections and the spaces in between – developing vision for nurturing sustainability through cross-cultural volunteering
www.joiningthedots.org
Anet Redmer
Future life scenario of the ‘Lowlands’ in the year of 2105
Presented by Anet Redmer, who helps companies evolve and innovate using the ‘tools of a designer’ and building bridges between the creative, the commercial and the future world.
www.redmera.net
Social Innovation BarCamp Sydney is again partnering with LiveFutures 2011 and will bring together the minds who are now working towards social innovation. The inaugural event was part of our 2010 festival and we are excited to see it back this year.
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.
Register here for the Social Innovation BarCamp Sydney
When: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Where: Presentations EG02 – E Block, the level 2 in F Block, Rooms F219, F212, F209, F206B
Morphing Sydney
What could/ should our city be like in the future? What spaces are important to you – CBD, Urban, Local. How are they changing and how do you want them to evolve?
Come join us in morphing the city – a collaborative creation experience.
When: 10am – 4.30pm
Where: Room F119, Level 1 F Block
Live Futures 2020 Reflection Space
Be led through the festival by art installations by Lisa Duong & Chris Darmadi and discover this Reflection Space where you can ponder about metamorphosis , what it means for you and how you can transform Your future.
When: 10am – 5pm
Where: Room F112, Level 1 F Block
Kelvin Mui – Photo Exhibition
Influenced by Digital Media, Kelvin Mui’s digital art combines photography and digital composite techniques to redefine reality and create meaning to his audience. The water and smoke composited animals blend into environments with high attention to animal anatomy, posing, lighting, perspective, scale, shadows, composition and colour. These works explore my personal migration experience and water pollution.
Kelvin will present works from both the ‘X-‐rayed’ series, 2011 and the ‘My Journey’ series, 2011 as a transformational statement.
When: 10am – 4.30pm
Where: Corridor, Level 1 F Block
The Brain Project – by Andrew Burford
Andrew Burford is studying his Masters in Fine Arts at COFA and this project has been born out Andrew’s original HSC work which dealt with genetic engineering and cloning in relation to the need for spare human body parts. The original work consisted of a ceramic heart and brain suspended in gelatine within clear plastic containers. Two other containers housed a silver reflective ball and bright red paint. These were placed on either side of a supermarket shelf which displayed human hearts and brains (made of polyurethane) as well as small plastic bags containing silver and red paint. The mould used to create the brain in this work is what now allows me to create more brains or various colours and hardnesses.
On the day of Live Futures 2020 festival Andrew will showcase the brains created already and take feedback and suggestions as to what he could create in the future. In particular suggestions for objects to embed within a clear brain will be sought after. Hopefully this will lead to further collaborations and more brains!!
When: 10am – 4.30pm
Where: Room F121, Level 1 F Block
Metamorphosis and Me: A World Cafe dialogue
All invited for a discussion about sustainability and belonging
When: 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Where: at COFA Cafe, outside Library
REMIND ME Wall
Remind me next year
Can I change? What do I want to change to?
Remind me of who I want to be
Remind me of who I can become
Remind me of who I am becoming
Remind me…..
Fill out your reminder card and we will send it to you before next year’s festival.
When: All Day
Where: at COFA Cafe, outside Library
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.
The Matchbox Project
Diogenes Wall
more information coming soon
For more information on the Nexus projects please read Ryan’s 2010 blog post Nexus Project: College of Fine Arts.
When: 10am – 4.30pm
Where: EG02 Foyer
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 – 4.30pm
Where: Room F121, Level 1, F Block
Scinema
Sit back and relax while watching some short films about science. Live Futures 2020 Festival is an official Scinema venue.
For more information about Scinema visit http://www.csiro.au/scinema/
When: 10- 4.30pm
Where: Room E101 (10am – 5pm) & EG02 (11.30am – 3.00pm), E Block
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Find out more about past Live Future 2020 Festivals.
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In the meantime browse through our past programs and get inspired for 2011
2010 Program
2009 Program
2008 Program
2007 Program
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