LIVE FUTURES 2020 FESTIVAL

2009 PROGRAM

10am Live Futures Festival Opening
Live Futures 2020 wlll be opened by Professor Ian Howard, the Dean of COFA, Selena Griffith, Sustainable Design Specialist and Janine Cahill, CEO of Future Journeys. The Opening will be in E Block, Room EG02.

SPEAKERS
Speakers will present for half an hour, followed by fifteen minutes discussion time.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

10.30 – Future of Service with Dr. Bill Hollins, Directions Consultants, UK
Dr Bill Hollins undertakes consultancy for Direction Consultants that he started with his wife in 1985 after twenty years designing and managing design in industry.  He has a doctorate in Design Management from Strathclyde University and now specialises in Service design.    E Block, Room EG02

11.30 – Co-Creating The Future with Janine Cahill CEO Future Journeys
Janine Cahill BA MCom CPA is a Sydney-based innovation strategy and futures consultant with special expertise in developing experiential innovation leadership programs and working with deep forms of learning. She has worked in strategy, organizational change and leadership since 1988.    E Block, Room EG02

12.30 - Deborah Kneeshaw - Design Thinking for a better future
Hear what design thinking is, its role in creating a better future, and then have fun trying a few design tools with your peers in this interactive presentation.
Deborah Kneeshaw has pioneered the use of design thinking as a tool for positive change in Australia. Her interactive training programs help leaders develop innovative products, services and strategies, and build environments where creativity can flourish.

1.30 - Journey into Humanity with Dominique Jaurola
What do you get when you mix:
a curiosity for humanity + community venture + consumer foresight + mobile communications + Internet connectivity + media convergence + technology creativity =
A start-up with a dream to make us all a little more astute about understanding people.

Dominique gives us a front row seat in making a difference with some novel ways of understanding people.
She will talk about the journey, introduce the venture and some of the drivers and insights which guide it.

2.30 – Future of Energy with Saul Griffith, USA, via Skype
Saul Griffth’s innovations span industrial design, technology, and science education - but one of his real passions is energy and sustainability.
In fact, Saul initiated the project design for a hand-held human-powered generator, which has the potential significantly to improve access to electronic devices such as laptops and water purifiers throughout the world.    E Block, Room EG02

3.30  - Future of Food with Ben Shepherd
Have you thought about where your food comes from?  What about how others in the world get their food?  What happens as the world’s population continues to grow?  Will we run out of food?  Why haven’t we run out already?
Technology has done wonderful things keeping food production ahead of the growth of population.  Unfortunately it’s unlikely that this magic can continue forever without some serious understanding of the complexities of how we get our food and what pressures are facing the supply for the future.
Come and here a Security Analyst’s view on the unrecognised looming crisis that is confronting all of us and contribute your ideas to solving the problems.     E Block, Room EG02

4.30pm - Live Futures Ideas Nexus: Stage 1 Findings
The Live Futures 2020 Idea Nexus is an opportunity to develop large systems ideas for accelerating change to a sustainable earth and to reduce the impacts of climate change on people and the planet.

The team will present some ideas for feedback from the LiveFutures participants at the end of the festival. This feedback will be integrated into the Idea Nexus which can be fed back into the next LiveFutures2020 event around the world. The next group will then take the ideas and work on them again and pass it along to the next rolling festival. So Idea Nexus rolls around the globe gathering momentum, ideas, actions, for development and implementation.

The Idea Nexus is a developing idea as part of the Open Innovation platform that is Live Futures 2020. We absolutely welcome comments, ideas and involvement. If you would like to collaborate with us in YOUR city or region please talk to us. LiveFutures 2020 welcomes partners, friends, conversations.

Our first Ideas Nexus team comprises Janine Cahill, Selena Griffith, Brian Lennon, Ross Harding and Justin Medcalf. We look forward to inviting more teams in the future. Please talk to Janine or email her on jcahill at futurejourneys.com E Block, Room EG02

5.00 – Festival Debrief
Reflections on the day and the way ahead    E Block, Room EG02

MORE PRESENTATIONS

11am – 4.30pm Our Green + Global Global Future short presentations (5+5)
The space will be available for anyone who wishes to present related to Our Global Future. There will be 5 minute presentations and 5 minutes questions time.
Presentation slots available every 10 minutes.     E Block, Room E101

10am - 4.30pm Sustainable?
This slide show by graphic design students from the Design Centre Enmore, challenges you to think about sustainability. B Block, Room B104

1pm - 2pm - Nomadic Hands Presentation with Simone Francis.
Simone Francis of Nomadic Hands will present on what is was like filming the documentary ‘Ikiam’ in South America. Simone also has a photo exhibition in the F Block Level 2 Corridor. Simone’s presentation will be in C Block, Room C201.

CINEMA
11.00 – 12.15 Waste = Food documentary and discussion
Waste=Food looks at the the fact that Man is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in na­tions like China and India. The waste production world wide is enormous and if we do not do anything we will soon have turned all our resources into one big messy landfill.
But there is hope…
By documentary film maker Rob van Hattum    F Block, Room F116

12.30pm – 1.45pm – The Future Makers documentary and discussion
The Future Makers looks at man’s use of energy resources, and sees that sustainability is possible. The Future Makers tells the story of key Australians leading the way on the world stage in renewable energy.
The Future Makers is a film by Maryella Hatfield    F Block, Room F116

2pm - 2.45pm Tom Kendall: A Brief History of Now
Discussing emergent societal trends instigated by historical events that may have a surprisingly dramatic effect of the future as we imagine it. F Block, Room F116

3.00pm – 4.30pm US Now film and discussion
Us Now takes a look at how user-driven, user-generated and online participation could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government forever.
Banyak Films, directed by Ivo Gormley    F Block, Room F116

11am – 4pm - Scinema short films
SCINEMA is a science film, video and multimedia festival, which brings a selection of science drama, documentaries, and short subjects.
At Live Futures 2020 Festival, Scinema will be played on a loop, where audience members can come and experience the short films at their leisure.    C Block, Room C101

SPACES
11am – 4.30pm Social Entrepreneur Space
Learn about the Bridges Network Approach and join in a day of visioning, workshopping, drumming, developing a collage of ideas. Pool energies, ideas and skills for progressing more caring, cohesive communities.

1pm – 2pm Nomadic Hands – an 20 minute video and presentation
Simone Francis of Nomadic Hands will present on what is was like filming the documentary ‘Ikiam’ in South America.

C Block, Room C201

11am – 4.30 Future Camp & Design Camp
FutureCamp and DesignCamp will be in unconference style: a conference for everybody to speak and contribute.
An unconference is an open space where anyone can run a workshop, facilitate a discussion or share a presentation on something they’re an expert in: whether it’s how to solve a problem, something you’ve invented or something you’re just itching to discuss with other like minded people.
FutureCamp and DesignCamp will be held in ten minute presentations, with ten minutes for questions – free to prepare presentations or bring along demos of concepts you’ll be talking about.
Held in the ELCC conference centre

1.40 – 2.40pm Design camp
Hear about the future of design from some of Sydney’s leading designers
Held in the ELCC conference centre

10am – 4.30pm Creative Nexus Collaboration
Creative Nexus Collaboration is an exhibition space where designers and scientists come together to work on projects.
There will be a show-and-tell by designers and scientists who explain their projects – how and why they collaborated to create installation artworks.
Projects include digital mapping of community gardens, mapping how gene functions work and exploration of hart-beat patterns.    F Block, Room F216

10am - 5pm Decipher Code 2020 Exhibition
Part of Creative Nexus Collaboration, Decipher Code 2020 is where you’ll explore sequencing  and micro-array analysis by becoming a DNA base for a day! Play, touch and explore in this installation space.  And receive a Gene-Chip as a memento!

Sessions will be 10 minutes in length facilitated by Lucy Wang and Natalie Woolger. The “Sequencing” sessions, are held in groups of four; on the hour and half past. The “Micro-Array” sessions are held in groups of fifteen; at quarter past and quarter to the hour.  Be quick places are limited! C Block, rooms CB01, CB09, CB11.

11am – 4.30pm The Future of Cities
Workshop with Fang Xu and Vaibhav Purohit where a city will be built in 3d – where issues of sustainability will be a particular focus.     F Block, Room F119

10am – 4.30pm SRD Change Student Sustainability Project
There will be a feedback forum 1 – 3.30pm for final year design and architecture students to workshop sustainability based projects with an expert panel as part of the SRD Change initiative. See the SRD site for more.

This is a free opportunity, to speak with design educators, and professionals with expertise in, architecture,  design,  sustainability,  and, design responsibly for our future!, Get help to tease out ideas,  develop, directions,  and start the semester off on, a strong footing!

There will also be an exhibition of recent SRD Change Grad projects.

B Block, Room B108

1pm – 3pm Emotiv Headset Interaction
Imagine a video game that responds to your thoughts!
Emotiv Systems develop brain-computer interfaces: where users can move objects in a digital environment, by being connected up to a headset.
The Emotiv Headset will be available for interaction from 1pm.    E Block, outside EG02

11am – 4.30pm Post it Wall of Ideas
Share your vision of the world on the Wall Of Ideas. Put up a postit note with visions, hope and ideas for the future.
F Block, Level 1 Corridor and B Block, Level 1 Corridor

10am – 4.30pm Nomadic Hands – photo exhibition
The Nomadic Hands photography exhibition will showcase photogaphy from many South American countries and will include a mixture of nature, people and animals, which individuals, organisations and groups seek to help and protect. F Block Level 2 Corridor.

10am – 4.30pm Sustain Me (Exhibition as part of Sydney Design Week)
The word “sustainability” is in danger of losing its tangible value and status as a universal catch-cry from chronic over use. Sustain me: contemporary design explores the conventional role design and designers play in creating and developing a deeper understanding of sustainability.

Exhibitors include David Trubridge, Green Life 21 project (designs by Yoshikazu Hasegawa and Prue Venerables), Elliat Rich Steven Harrison, Luisa Cevese: RIEDIZIONI, Instyle Contract Textiles, Mark Vaarwerk, Andrew Maynard Architects and Julie Paterson: clothfabric.      Ivan Dougerty Gallery, Selwyn St

2.30 - 3pm Rod Bamford on the “Sustain Me” Exhibition
Increasingly, designers find that they are working within complex systems where values of sustainability are tested and negotiated. The exhibition, ‘Sustain Me’ asks the question,” what happens when inspiration’meets application in this context ” ?. It explores a range  of different ways designers are responding to the circumstances through the lenses of economy, culture and environment. Ivan Dougerty Gallery, Selwyn St

10am – 4.30pm Typo Botanica
An exhibition of work of Graphic Design final-year students at Enmore Design Centre for an exhibition of Botanical art: highlighting innovative and sustainable design solutions for signage, using resources that were found, recycled or included the transformation of raw material; that had minimal impact on the environment; allowed people to relate with the natural environment; and took in ecologically sound practices for production, transport, assembly, and disposal. The signage is not permanent and its main function is to attract, inform and direct.    F Block, Room F216

12pm – 4.30pm Theatre of Alternative Realities
The Live Futures 2020 Festival has an interactive theatre space dedicated just for improv actors to create their vision of the future.
Drawing on co-exploration, where everyone explores their vision of the future, the dedicated space will be open from 10 – 4.30pm.    F Block, Room F214

11am - 4.30pm HowToons Space
Hands-On creative space for scientific projects. Great for kids and the young-at-heart!    Block C, Room C103

WORKSHOPS
11am - 12.30pm and 3pm - 4.30pm Bridges Social Innovation VOICES
Join us for a short or longer time in visioning, workshopping, drumming, developing a collage of your ideas over the course of the day, and having lots of fun as together – pool yours, ours and others’ amazing energies, ideas and skills for progressing more caring, cohesive communities.
Learn about the Bridges Network Approach  and its strategies of “recognizing and changing contexts”, “harnessing strengths”, “voice’, relationships, networks and the ripple effect.
We’ve been using these to build stronger communities; raise the profile and develop supportive networks for Indigenous, African and other groups; address alcohol and drug problems; and even address struggles for small community organizations.Block C, Room C201

11.30am - 1pm and 2pm - 3.30pm Live Futures Dreaming
Liz Cahill and Nerida Lennon of Global Youth Futures will be running Speed Scenarios of the future, at the Live Futures 2020 Festival.

Using the techniques of a Future Dreaming weekend, which allows young people to explore climate and sustainability issues, new technologies, cultural, health and population shifts, global and local political trends, the Speed Scenarios at Live Futures 2020 will be short scenarios in one-hour blocks of time.
Participants can explore issues and think what our impact, their impact and the future ramifications for us as humans and for our communities.    F Block, Room F117

12pm - 1.30pm and 2.30pm - 4pm Mapping the Future
Workshop with Josh Bladwell
What does the future hold? The workshop will focus on mapping the way we see our future unfolding.
Using the collective knowledge of participants to build a set of interacting projections (in the form of a timeline based map), we will aim to get a feel for how different developments will affect our society, how developments in one field will impact on others, and the way in which our own visions of the future differ and interact.

The information will be channelled into an interactive production, charting not only the map itself, but also the way in which the map and its constituent ideas develop and evolve over the course of the day.     F Block, Room F112

12pm – 4pm Scratch – Make Your Own Computer Game
Scratch is free software where anyone can create a computer game – and we’ll be holding facilitated Workshops at the Festival!

Scratch: Competition
How can a game challenge our views of our world and our future? With a Serious Game – a game which incorporates real world elements or facts to teach us about an issue.
The Categories for games include:
Millennium Development Goals Category
Climate Change Category
Renewable Technology Category
Open Category    F Block, room F115