Differential Mobilities Begins Today

May 8-11, 2013 at Concordia University, Montreal

More info at http://mobilities.ca/pamnet-4/about/

From May 8-11, 2013 the Mobile Media Lab in the Communication Studies department of Concordia University in Montreal will be hosting Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked Societies. This international conference is sponsored by the Pan-American Mobilities Network, in association with the European Cosmobilities Network. The conference will be held in collaboration with the 4th annual meeting of the Pan-American Mobilities Network.  Previous conferences have been held at:  Royal Roads University, Victoria B.C (2010);  Drexel University, Philadelphia PA (2011) ; and North Carolina State University, Raleigh-Durham NC (2012).

The conference is an opportunity for scholars, artists, activists, and policy makers to engage in a lively exchange of  ideas in an interdisciplinary context, taking the term “mobilities” as a fulcrum. Mobilities has become an important framework for understanding and analyzing contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Mobilities research is interdisciplinary, focusing on the systematic movement of people, goods and information that “travel” around the world at speeds that are greater than before, creating distinct patterns, flows– and blockages. Mobilities research contributes to the study of these technological, social and cultural developments from a critical perspective.

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We invite you to download our Guidebook Mobile Device App in order to view and manage the schedule remotely. You’ll be able to plan your day with a personalized schedule and browse exhibitors, maps and general show info. The app is compatible with iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches and Android devices. Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry users can access the same information via our mobile site at m.guidebook.com. 

To get the guide, choose one of the methods below:

• Download ‘Guidebook’ from the Apple App Store or the Android Marketplace
• Visit http://guidebook.com/getit from your phone’s browser

Organizing Committee:

• Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University, Québec)
• Jim Conley (Trent University, Canada)
• Owen Chapman (Concordia University, Québec)
• Adriana de Souza e Silva (NC State University, USA)
• Paola Jirón Martinez (University of Chile, Chile)
• Mimi Sheller (Drexel University, USA)
• Phillip Vannini (Royal Roads University, Canada)

The Pan-American Mobilities Network is a scholarly and professional network dedicated to the study of mobilities in South, Central, and North America. The Pan-American Mobilities Network gathers individuals and groups interested in developing more knowledge about mobilities on–or intersecting with–these continents and keen on building collegial relationships. Membership is free and a web-site for the organization is in process.

The Cosmobilities Network connects European scientists working in the field of mobility research. As an interdisciplinary network it represents state of the art research on different aspects of social, physical, cultural and virtual mobilities. It fosters mobility research as a key discipline investigating the modernization of European societies under the conditions of globalization and global complexity.

Conference Chair:  Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University, Québec)

For further information, contact: Ben Spencer, Administrative Coordinator, Mobile Media Labmmcconcordia@gmail.com

 

Ecoarttech visiting Urban Vitality & the Arts

Urban Vitality and the Arts

Thursday, 2 May 2013, 6:30 – 9:20 pm
URBN 141, 3501 Market Street

The artist team Ecoarttech (Leila Nadir and Cary Pepperment) will be presenting a Philadelphia premier of their work Indeterminate Hikes+ as part of the class Urban Vitality & the Arts, taught by Mimi Sheller and Hana Iverson. Ecoarttech work on the overlapping terrain between “nature”, built environments, mobility and electronic spaces and technologies. They will be in conversation with Dr. Christian Hunold, Associate Professor of Political Science in Drexel’s College of Arts and Sciences, whose research interests revolve around sustainability and the politics of renewable energy; and writer Bernard Brown, who writes the Urban Naturalist column for GRID Magazine.

You can find more information on ecoarttech and their other work at http://www.ecoarttech.net/

This event is free and open to the public, but is part of an instructional course so please to attend please contact: Mimi Sheller, director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, mimi.sheller@drexel.edu.

Mobile World Capital

Mobile World Capital – Barcelona

mCenter Director Mimi Sheller will be featured in a video installed in the new Mobile World Center, in the heart of Barcelona.

What is the Mobile World Centre?

The Centre is Mobile World Capital’s permanent exhibition & venue, to spread and demonstrate the latest mobile technologies and solutions to citizens.

Content

Permanent Exhibition

The Centre permanent exhibition is an open platform to all citizens to understand, learn & experience the mWorld.  At the first floor you will find:

1. Data Cloud: Dynamic screens with key metrics showing the evolution of mobile telephony, including penetration and social usage all around the world
2. Interactive Forest: An attractive walk through the different visions and components of mWorld and its capacity to transform the way we live.
3. mWorld Experience – Central element of the exhibition, showing the transformation capability and the constant evolution of the mobile industry and its impact in people’s life
4. mWorld Experience – Video Library
5. mHistory - Timeline with multimedia information covering mobile development, since the beginning of commercial mobile telephony to nowadays.

The Centre exhibition will always be in constant evolution showing latest trends, events and facts from the mWorld.

We welcome all companies, citizens and mLovers to participate, so if you would like to present or suggest some potential content for the centre, please do contact us at: centre@mobileworldcapital.com

Events

At the 2nd floor of the Centre you will find a highly versatile space dedicated to Mobile events (mEvents).

A unique, contemporary and innovative space of 440m2 that hosts approximately 150pax for event.  The centre also offers catering and AV Services.

For the latest agenda of mEvents at the centre please visit mobileworldcentre.com

If you would like to find out more about how to use this space or can you collaborate with the Mobile World Centre please email:  centre@mobileworldcapital.com

Location

Barcelona, Spain, placed in Fontanella 2, in the corner of Plaça Catalunya with streets Portal de l’Angel and Fontanella, in a flagship building of Telefónica Movistar.

History

In the summer of 2011, GSMA selected Barcelona as the world’s first Mobile World Capital from 2012 to 2018. The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Spanning more than 220 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators with more than 230 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem.

The Mobile World Capital will radically accelerate the global growth of mobile and Barcelona will be the global showcase for innovation.

The Mobile World Capital Foundation & Telefonica have worked hand in hand to create a unique, open platform called Mobile World Centre; a state of the art exhibition showroom where citizens are able to understand and experience how mobile is enhancing our lives.

The Mobile World Centre, located in the heart of Barcelona, brings mobile technology closer to all citizens, share a global vision of the mobile future and be a source of information for the other Mobile World Capital channels; Mobile World Hub, Mobile Word Festival and Mobile World Congress.

For further information please visit:

http://mobileworldcapital.com/mobile-world-centre/

Differential Mobilities

Registration Open for Differential Mobilities Conference

 

 

May 8-11, 2013 at Concordia University, Montreal

More info at http://mobilities.ca/pamnet-4/about/

From May 8-11, 2013 the Mobile Media Lab in the Communication Studies department of Concordia University in Montreal will be hosting Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked Societies. This international conference is sponsored by the Pan-American Mobilities Network, in association with the European Cosmobilities Network. The conference will be held in collaboration with the 4th annual meeting of the Pan-American Mobilities Network.  Previous conferences have been held at:  Royal Roads University, Victoria B.C (2010);  Drexel University, Philadelphia PA (2011) ; and North Carolina State University, Raleigh-Durham NC (2012).

The conference is an opportunity for scholars, artists, activists, and policy makers to engage in a lively exchange of  ideas in an interdisciplinary context, taking the term “mobilities” as a fulcrum. Mobilities has become an important framework for understanding and analyzing contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Mobilities research is interdisciplinary, focusing on the systematic movement of people, goods and information that “travel” around the world at speeds that are greater than before, creating distinct patterns, flows– and blockages. Mobilities research contributes to the study of these technological, social and cultural developments from a critical perspective.

Each year the conference has a different thematic focus, reflecting the interests and expertise of the local organizing committee. Previous themes have included: Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the Americas (2010); Mobilities in Motion: New Approaches to Emergent and Future Mobilities (2011); Local and Mobile: linking mobilities, mobile communication and locative media (2012)

This year’s theme is Differential Mobilities: Movement and Mediation in Networked Societies. The term ‘differential mobilities’ has been deployed to describe dynamics of power within networked societies. When we conceptualize movement, mobility, or flows within spaces and places, we need to account for the systemic differences within infrastructures and terrains that create uneven forms of access. ‘Differential mobilities’, conceptually, highlights how exclusions occur, creating striations of power. It draws attention to differences in how these inequalities are experienced, the strategies for resistance, and the processes of mediation that have been implemented to instigate change.

The Pan-American Mobilities Network is a scholarly and professional network dedicated to the study of mobilities in South, Central, and North America. The Pan-American Mobilities Network gathers individuals and groups interested in developing more knowledge about mobilities on–or intersecting with–these continents and keen on building collegial relationships. Membership is free and a web-site for the organization is in process.

The Cosmobilities Network connects European scientists working in the field of mobility research. As an interdisciplinary network it represents state of the art research on different aspects of social, physical, cultural and virtual mobilities. It fosters mobility research as a key discipline investigating the modernization of European societies under the conditions of globalization and global complexity.

Conference Chair: Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University, Québec)

Organizing Committee: Jim Conley (Trent University, Canada), Owen Chapman (Concordia University, Québec), Adriana de Souza e Silva (NC State University, USA), Paola Jirón Martinez (University of Chile, Chile), Mary Gray (Microsoft/Indiana Univerisity, USA), Ole B. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark), André Lemos (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), Mimi Sheller (Drexel University, USA), Jen Southern (Lancaster University, UK), and Phillip Vannini (Royal Roads University, Canada).

Register at: http://mobilities.ca/pamnet-4/conference-registration/

ExCITE Center Opening

Wednesday, November 28th, 3:30-6pm

UC Science Center,  3401 Market St

Drexel University is opening a cross-discipline research/tech incubator center. The Expressive and Creative Interaction Technology — or ExCITe — Center is being created in 11,000 square-feet of converted industrial office space on the first floor of the University City Science Center building at 3401 Market.

The ExCITe Center will bring together translational research being conducted at Drexel’s colleges of Engineering, Arts & Science, Media Arts & Design and Information Science Technology in the same space. Music technology, humanoid robots, app development, video games, and digital knitting machines will converge with many other technologies in one creative space. The center will also serve as an incubator for local innovation partnerships.

“The opening of the ExCITe Center reflects Drexel’s commitment to re-imagine the urban research university for the 21st Century,” said Drexel President John A. Fry, in a statement. “We seek to foster creativity, innovation, collaboration and a commitment to community. The ExCITe Center will be a place that brings all of those core values together to create real economic opportunities for our city and region as well as a significant impact in society.”

Research in the ExCITe Center will include all aspects of expression and interaction, from performing arts technology to civic and city-scale computing. It will also, build on Drexel’s existing collaborations with arts and cultural institutions, regional development organizations and government.

“The ExCITe Center brings together not only technologists and researchers, but also designers, artists and musicians, city and transportation planners and civic innovators and entrepreneurs,” said Dr. Youngmoo Kim, the director of the ExCITe Center. “It’s a place for creative and passionate people who want to work together to transform Philadelphia through innovation and the digital creative economy.”

Three projects picked for seed funding from ExCITe were announced earlier this year, including one in which the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy is a collaborator, Sonic City.

They are: “Virtual Opera” led by the Opera Company of Philadelphia with the Curtis Institute of Music; “Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Gaming” led by Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design with the School of Biomedical Engineering and the College of Nursing and Health Professions; and “Sonic City” led by Neighborhood Narratives Project with Breadboard, Azavea, Drexel University Goodwin School of Education, College of Engineering, and the mCenter in the College of Arts and Sciences.

A truly multidisciplinary effort, Sonic City is a city-scale art and engineering project designed to engage the bus system as a creative interface for people to interactively engage the sounds of the city. Diverse neighborhoods of Philadelphia are connected through a sonic interface made up of real-time and recorded sound that will be experienced in bus shelter “installations” modified by the movement of the bus system. Real-time recordings of the city gathered through geo-spatial sensor-networks, along with seeded music and spoken words will be mixed with sounds contributed by the public via smartphones and the internet. The project will create geographically distinct aural immersion into a “musical” sound collage that reveals an innovative sonic and spatial patterning of the city.

For more info please contact mimi.sheller@drexel.edu, and for some ideas on “mobile mediality” as a sonic experience visit this mCenter blog.

Art in Your Pocket

Art In Your Pocket – Panel Discussion

Rhizome’s New Silent Series

Friday September 21 7PM

New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY

The computer we carry in our pockets is also an emerging platform for interactive screen-based art. Art In Your Pocket takes its name from a series of texts Jonah Brucker-Cohen wrote for Rhizome on art made for smartphones. This panel will assemble leading media artists working with mobile devices and discuss current trends relating to this practice.

Moderated by Jason Eppink, Assistant Curator of Digital Media at the Museum of the Moving Image. Panelists include artist, programmer, and founder of iPhone app company SOFTOFT TECHECH, Paul Slocum; Mimi Sheller, leading theorist on mobilities research and Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University; LoVid, 2011 Rhizome commissioned artists for their location-specific art app project iParade #2: Unchanged When Exhumed; and Jonathan Vingiano, Co-founder of OKFocus.

Organized by Rhizome, the New Silent Series receives major support from The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

To purchase tickets please visit:

http://rhizome.org/events/art-in-your-pocket/

ISA Mid-term Conference

International Sociological Association
Call for Papers

The mobile interface and social change. Embodied spaces and locative technologies

Mid term conference 2010–2014
ISA RC54 The Body in the Social Sciences
“Sapienza”, University of Rome, Italy
December 5-6, 2012
Abstracts submission: October 15, 2012

Throughout history, when a medium that was once understood as geographically fixed becomes mobile, a cultural shift accompanies this transformation. A similar cultural shift has been taking place as computing technologies are continually moving from their static location at the home or office computer and becoming mobile. The embodied nature of mobile devices renders old binaries of real/virtual obsolete. Since embodiment and space are indelibly linked together, it is important to develop a strong understanding of our usage of the term “mobile media space–time”. Such an understanding is undoubtedly linked to the various ways space is built up by mobile devices, and to the community that comes into existence by virtue of interacting within the all-pervasive computing space.

One can never “inhabit” space because such an ontological condition would imply entering a preexisting field that our bodies simply fill. Rather, space is always “constructed simultaneously with our sense of embodiment”. Part of this is cultural, but part is also biological because space arises from the interplay between our conscious mind and its surrounding structures. Second, embodiment is relational. We construct our sense of space by tuning-in and tuning-out different parts of the world, similar to how we perceive our body by focusing on select sensations or areas instead of “taking everything in” at once. As such, the way we read our bodies and the world is always selective and never complete: “full, embodied presence is always being deferred”. Third, the mobile technologies reconfigure the ways their users can embody space, specifically in how they allow the Internet to dislodge itself from the PC and move into everyday environments. In this new embodied environment, social actors locate themselves in digital space and material space simultaneously, with each shaping perceptions of the other.

[As Mimi Sheller argues in her Sociopedia article "Mobility"]: The new transdisciplinary field of mobilities research encompasses research on the spatial mobility of humans, nonhumans and objects; the circulation of information, images and capital; as well as the study of the physical means for movement such as infrastructures, vehicles and software systems that enable travel and communication to take place. Thus it brings together some of the more purely ‘social’ concerns of sociology (inequality, power, hierarchies, social memory) with the ‘spatial’ concerns of geography (territory, borders, scale) and the ‘cultural’ concerns of anthropology and media studies. Furthermore, mobilities theory also builds on a range of philosophical perspectives that enable more radical rethinking of the relation between bodies, movement and space. It draws on phenomenology to reconsider embodied practices and the production of being–in–motion as a relational affordance between the senses, objects and kinesthetic accomplishments. Sociologists are only just beginning to explore what the notion of “mobility” might mean when mediated through computing and communications technologies, and so far, the sociological treatment has been largely theoretical.

In order to define the various ways time/space is produced in our mobile media era, the aim of this 2–days Conference is to highlight, by the body, the emerging methodologies and applications in the study of mobile media time–space and with particular attention to: [1] understand locative media in terms of embodied experience; [2] draw the context in which methods are used as well as the tacit assumptions that shape research questions; [3] focus on case studies illustrating how individuals, groups, and institutions have used mobile media to toy with or alter their physical surroundings. We want to explore how, in everyday life, a number of dimensions of time and space are being newly reconstructed through the use of mobile communications technologies. The conference should be a starting point of long-term grounded research on the Socio-Technical Shaping of Mobile Multimedia Communications. This research should involve ethnographic field-work conducted in a variety of locales and with a number of groups and institutions. Therefore, it should constitute a resource to explore how mobile communications technologies mediate time in relation to mobile spaces. The conference will offer a review and critique of some of the major sociological approaches to understanding time and space. This review entails a discussion of how social practices and institutions are maintained and/or transformed via mobile technologies. Ethnographic data will be used to explore emerging mobile temporalities. Three inter-connected domains in mobile time are proposed: 1. rhythms of mobile use; 2. rhythms of mobile use in everyday life; 3.rhythms of mobility and institutional change (discourses, representations, schemas). Each entails a relational ontology of the constitution of social actors, spaces and meanings.

Theoretical as well as empirical presentations are welcome, especially work relating to micro-interactional research on the sociology of embodiment. Specifically, papers. power point presentations, and work in progress are invited on the following topics:

1. Embodied Spaces and Locative Technologies;

2. The Sensory Inscribed Body;

3. Mobility Capital and Performed Movement-Space;

4. Synchronous and Asynchronous Maps of the Mobile Interface;

5. The Rhythms of Mobile Use;

6. The Rhythms of Mobile Use in Everyday Life;

7. The Rhythms of Mobility and Institutional Change;

8. The Contours of Contemporary Media and Culture.

Abstract–Paper Format and Language: The organizers invite papers on the above topics.

Please send them to:
biancamaria.pirani@uniroma1.it
roberto.cipriani@tlc.uniroma3.it

A special consideration will be given to empirically grounded papers, either comparative or area–based. The language of the Conference will be English, French, and Italian. Abstracts should be about 250 words, specifying the name(s) of the Author(s), his/her/their affiliation(s) and e-mail.

Grassroots Game Conference

The Grassroots Game Conference

Panel on Geo-Gaming

Saturday April 28th, 1-3PM

At the Gershwin Y, Broad & Pine St

A conversation about making games that rely on being in physical locations to advance gameplay.

Thanks to the presence of an active civic-hacking community and Azavea, a leader in applications employing geographic data, Philadelphia is a center for geo-data applications.  Opportunities for games in this area are enhanced by the Apps and Maps initiative in North Philadelphia.

Panelists:

• Mark Head, Developer Evangelist at Voxeo Labs, and an active advocate for open government data and civic hacking events.
• Tamara Manik-Perlman, GIS Analyst and Project Manager at Azavea, extensive experience in user experience design and geospatial analysis and project manager on a citizen science and education game being developed with support from the National Science Foundation.
• Michelle Masucci, Chair of Temple University’s Department of Geography and Urban Studies and co-principal investigator of Apps and Maps.
• Mimi Sheller, Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy and Professor of Sociology at Drexel University, who works on mobile technologies, mobile gaming and mobile art in relation to urban public space.

New Interaction Orders

New Interaction Orders, New Mobile Publics?

13-14 April 2012

Imagination Lab, Lancaster University, UK

This workshop explores the emergence of ‘mobile publics’, inspired by Goffman’s studies of  public places as the performative locus of social orders and William Holly Whyte’s investigations of the social life of small urban spaces. We bring theory and empirical research, everyday lived practice, design, policy and politics together through collaborative analysis  of multi-sited, mobile, ethnographic or otherwise qualitative studies of behavior in today’s public spaces.

Guest Speakers: Christian Licoppe — Keith Hampton — Mimi Sheller

mCenter Director Mimi Sheller will be speaking at 10am (ET) Friday

Watch Live Webcast here http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/new_interaction_order/webcast.htm

Equipped with mobile technologies, people connect in ways that were unthinkable when Goffman wrote Behaviour in public spaces (1963) and William Whyte explored The social life of small urban spaces (1980). The momentous Arab Spring events, London riots and ’2011 Occupy’ demonstrations are extreme examples that pose old questions about the ‘interaction order’ and its relation to social order and the public sphere in new ways. On the one hand, mobile connectivity enables micro-coordination of increasingly mobile everyday lives, new modulations of co-presence, absent presence and present absence, and transformations of socio-material practices of availability, obligation, intimacy and strangerhood in public. Some of the social innovations involved also shape emergent new practices of mobilising people in protests and crises. Arguably new, agile, local and globally networked communities and ‘mobile publics’ are forming. On the other, worries over a loss of civility, community, privacy, and new forms of surveillance enabled by the ever closer intermeshing of digital technology and everyday ‘movement-spaces’ fuel fears over an erosion of civil liberties and ‘capital P’ politics.

Goffman’s insistence that ‘the interaction order’ is the performative locus of such utopian and dystopian transformations and his and Whyte’s attention to detail are the motivation for this two-day interdisciplinary workshop. We would like to bring micro and macro, theory and empirical research, everyday lived practice, design, policy and politics together through collaborative analysis of multi-sited, mobile, ethnographic or otherwise qualitative studies of behaviour in today’s public spaces, zeitdiagnostic theory and avantgarde design. We invite researchers, designers, technology developers, architects, urban planners, artists and urban communities to submit contributions that explore aspects of new and old ‘behaviour in public spaces’, including (but not limited to):

1. the ‘osmotic’ relationship between physical and virtual spaces, connectivity and mobility
2. the social life of such spaces
3. emergent principles and practices of the 21st Century interaction order
4. augmented embodied and sensory phenomenology and material agency
5. links between the interaction order, public engagement, and public space
6. tensions between mobile informationalized everyday lives and movement-spaces and principles of privacy and civil liberty, security, splintering and sorting of ‘access’
7. examples, practices and impacts of improvised communities and mobile publics, and collective intelligence
8. examples and methods of collaborative, experimental, radically careful and carefully radical design of new practices, technologies, forms of public engagement and spaces
9. reflections on the links between theory, empirical studies, design and politics in the broadest sense

Organisers: Chris Boyko, Monika Büscher, Tim Dant, Jill Ebrey, Pauline Feron, Karenza Moore, Jen Southern, Katherine Willis

Contact: p.feron@lancaster.ac.uk

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/new_interaction_order/index.htm

Future Everything 2012

Limited Offer on FutureEverything Conference

FutureEverything is an award-winning festival and conference based in Manchester, England. We’d like to bring your attention to the upcoming conference events running in Manchester between 17-18 May and the special offer, which has just been announced.

The FutureEverything 2012 Conference http://futureeverything.org/speakers (and associated workshop events) brings together around 500 delegates from across the creative industries, new technologies, innovation, arts, public sector and academia.

FutureEverything was recently rated by the Guardian as one of the top ten international ideas festivals, alongside TEDx, 99% and South by South West.

The FutureEverything 2012 Conference looks at the next lurch into the unknown brought about by a new participatory culture that is changing our world. We see profound changes in the digital and creative sector, as well as in society at large. The conference presents the people who are changing our world and the future-thinkers who enable us to see the possibilities of such connectivity.

Conference topics include:

• Participatory Media
  
• Wikileaks and Arab Spring
  
• Future Cities
  
• Open Knowledge
  
• Fab Lab Creative Communities

Three of our keynote speakers (Carlo Ratti, Rohan Gunatillake and Cesar A. Hidalgo) are from Wired Magazine’s The Smart List 2012: 50 People Who Will Change The World. Additional speakers include Icelandic MP and former Wikileaks spokesperson Birgitta Jonsdottir, Bilal Randeree (Al Jazeera), Juliana Rotich (Ushahidi), Bill Thompson, William Heath (Mydex), Adrian Woolard (BBC), Juha van’t Zelfde, Moritz Stefaner and more to be announced.

FutureEverything 2012 also hosts the launch of the £4M Creative Exchange (http://thecreativeexchange.org) Knowledge Hub funded by AHRC, and a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Mass Observation Movement and the UN International Year of Co-operatives - presented with a unique contemporary twist by artists and designers working in these new media.

Visit the website for further details: http://futureeverything.org/conference.

The Festival also features a packed programme of art and music events.

Special Offer (until April 1st, 2012)
We have created a special offer of 20% off the current Advanced Rate 2 Day Conference Ticket. With this exclusive rate, the price is reduced from £180 to £144.

If you’d like to take advantage of this limited offer, quote this promotion code when purchasing your ticket: CSO2012

Tickets can be purchased via this link, please select the Advanced Rate 2 Day Conference Ticket and press the promotion code button for this exclusive special offer: http://futureeverything.org/tickets/

Conference Bursaries
FutureEverything is pleased to announce that a limited number of Conference Bursaries are available for practicing artists, activists and change makers without institutional support to ensure their voices are fully represented at the Conference. Apply here http://bit.ly/febursary.

If you have any further queries do not hesitate to get in touch.

Best Wishes,

FutureEverything
39 Edge Street
Manchester
M4 1HW
info@futureeverything.org
http://www.futureeverything.org