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Environment 2.0

Environment 2.0 is a new international initiative seeking to explore the sustainability of future arts and technologies.

The project will seek to minimise the environmental impact of the Futuresonic festival and also to explore broader issues connecting Futuresonic's interest in mobile and social technologies with the new urgency surrounding climate change.

In Environment 2.0 two worlds collide. When the environment is mapped, tagged and digitised it becomes navigable, computable and manipulable. How can this approach to environment, one which is iconic for our times, be reconciled with the need to address climate change?

The Social Technologies Summit at Futuresonic 2007 will include a network meeting for Environment 2.0. This will be followed by a major conference on this topic in 2008, and a major exhibition in 2009.

How Are You Getting Here?

Traveling to Manchester for Futuresonic? Futuresonic is
evaluating its carbon footprint. Please click here to tell
us how you are traveling to the festival and for info on
going beyond carbon neutral.

Environment Talks & Network Meeting

Click here to learn about the Environment 2.0 Talks on
Saturday 12 May at Futuresonic 2007.

NEAR=FAR Art Project by LoVid

Produced In Absentia for Futuresonic 2007, NEAR=FAR (So Near
and Yet So Far Away) is a Virtual Unreality project by LoVid (Tali
Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus). In an installation in Manchester, flat 2D
abstract video is viewed through a lo-fi binocular tube constructed
from cardboard, while LoVid's Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus are
themselves represented by life-size cardboard cut-outs covered
in printed colour scans of the artists dressed in VideoWear.
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Carbon Footprint

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.

We start with the recognition that the carbon footprint of the festival must include the travel of all people attending the event, not just the energy used at events or in organising the festival.

It is misleading to claim that any festival that claims to be 'international' (ie. has large numbers of international visitors) can be carbon neutral. The first step is to acknowledge we are carbon addicts. Then we can try to do something about it.