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Environment 2.0

Talk
Sat 31.01.2009 - 16:00

Drawing together the perspectives of environmental scientists, web technologists interested in the interface between digital footprint and environmental footprint, and artists concerned with creating precedents for social change on environmental sustainability. Environment 2.0 seeks to decode the complex relationships between people, nature and technology, at a time when the nature of humankind's relationship to the environment is changing, as the world ceases to be inert raw material and becomes instead navigable, computable and manipulable. A key interest is creative interdisciplinary practice that intervenes in the social processes that shape our relationship to the environment, not through artworks staged in distant beauty spots, but through creative interventions closer to home that can help contribute to social change, or that suggest alternative perspectives on sustainability.

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The transmediale.09 conference Making / Thinking: The Cultural Tomorrow examines theories on climate change, checks forecasting models and questions economic, political and media-based technologies of interpreting such models.

Participants: 
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Usman Haque, director Haque Design + Research Ltd, founder of Pachube.com and CEO of Connected Environments Ltd has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances.

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Drew Hemment is an artist, curator and researcher. He is director and founder of the FutureEverything Festival in Manchester, and Assistant Director of Imagination Lancaster at Lancaster University.