Urban Climate Camp ISEA2008, Singapore 30th July
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An invited forum at ISEA2008, the International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Singapore. The Urban Climate Camp is one is a series of events presented by ImaginationLancaster and Futuresonic exploring new cross-disciplinary thinking on sustainability in urban environments, with a focus on the interface between our digital footprint and our environmental footprint, non-Western perspectives, and on creative intervention to enable social change.
Leading thinkers and artists from around the world are in Singapore for ISEA2008 and the Urban Climate Camp invites them to explore the issue of how art and design can intervene in environmental sustainability. The Urban Climate Camp will take advantage of the collective intelligence that ISEA has gathered together and will try to make the most of all those air miles.
imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/cracksinthepavement/ISEA2008
Themes
Themes the event will explore include:
- How can artists, designers and scientists intervene in environmental sustainability?
- How can art communicate climate change or it make more visible? How can we understand the science of climate better, or make the climate and the environment more tangible in people's daily lives?
- How can art enable us to see, think and act differently?
- How do non-Western perspectives view and frame the issue of climate change and environmental sustainablity differently?
- How is the nature of humankind's relationship to the environment changing with developments in technology such as locative and pervasive media?
- How can we improve sustainability in urban environments?
- How can local intervention or everyday creativity make a difference to global problems?
- How can we justify so many air miles to attend an art festival?
Format
The event will be 2 hours long and will involve short, quick fire presentations presenting a range of projects and a diversity of perspectives.
The event is open to all but capacity is limited so please arrive early to ensure you are able to attend.
It will be followed by a linked seminar by Luminous Green, which will take the form of structured discussion.
The Urban Climate Camp is convened by Drew Hemment and is presented by ImaginationLancaster and Futuresonic.
Info
Urban Climate Camp
30 July, 2pm - 4pm
Singapore Management University, School of Information Systems, Level 5 Function Room
Map http://www.smu.edu.sg/campus/map/
All participants are also encouraged to take part in the Luminous Green seminar will follows immediately afterwards in the same space:
Luminous Green seminar
30th July 2008
4pm - 6pm
Places are limited, please register by sending an email to info@fo.am.
imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/cracksinthepavement/ISEA2008
Or contact Gala Pujol at env20@futuresonic.com.
Background
The Urban Climate Camp workshop is a part of the Environment 2.0 project which will culminate with an exhibition and workshop at Futuresonic 2009. Each year Futuresonic presents public sphere artworks exploring the themes of the social, city and technology, and since 2006 has developed the Environment 2.0 theme in collaboration with ImaginationLancaster, a major new interdisciplinary research lab at Lancaster University.
The focus is on the interface between our digital footprint and our environmental footprint, non-Western perspectives, and on creative intervention to enable social change. The vision is to seed creative interventions that intervene in the way cultural or technological processes shape society, and that aim to be transformational. They might be artworks, social entrepreneurship, scientific intervention, or innovations which harness everyday creativity. And they might enable individuals and communities to live in a more sustainable way, or suggest alternative possibilities for or critical perspectives on sustainability.
A new relationship to the environment is emerging as the world becomes digitally navigable, computable and therefore knowable and manipulable in new ways. What changes in social and material practice are required in order to enhance environmental sustainability, how they can be realised, and what are the local, national and global impacts?
Leonardo and Futuresonic
Submissions are also invited on the Environment 2.0 theme for:
A themed call of the Leonardo journal edited by Drew Hemment
And for the Futuresonic 2009 festival
www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved
Supported by
The British Council, Arts Council England, ImaginationLancaster, Futuresonic