a Futuresonic 2007 festival special feature.
Futuresonic is taking steps to reduce the environmental impact of the festival, starting with a pioneering study of the carbon footprint of the Futuresonic 2007 festival, undertaken in collaboration with the Manchester-based Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and Creative Concern, and a series of projects which highlight social and environmental impact of future arts and technologies.
The issues raised by this will be explored under the banner of ENVIRONMENT 2.0 within the Social Technology Summit , the main conference strand of the Futuresonic festival.
SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT
SPECIAL ADVANCE BOOKING RATE AVAILABLE TILL 31 DECEMBER
25 (Normally 45)
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/bookings.html
The Delegate Pass gives you access to all Futuresonic seminars and talks, the Social Technologies Summit, and entrance to Futuresonic Live events over the festival weekend. See below for details.
SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT
http://www.socialtechsummit.org
The main conference strand of the Futuresonic festival, the Social Technologies Summit, is a major international conference exploring the creative and social potential and implications of new technologies, bringing together leading figures to explore “a whole new way of doing things in the air”.
KEY THEMES FOR 2007:
ENVIRONMENT 2.0
In 2007 a focus of the Social Technologies Summit is ENVIRONMENT 2.0, a new international initiative in which two worlds collide: o The world is waking up to realities of climate change, long predicted but until now too easy to ignore. o The world is in love with smart environments, mobile communication, pervasive media, wearable computing. Can these two approaches to environment, each one iconic for our times, be reconciled?