Talk on Open Data Cities and DataGM through the medium of gazpacho, also reflecting on the cucumber crisis and the Spanish Revolution of 2011.

1. eat data
(its good for you)

2. Spanish Revolution 2011
Photo VeganWarrior (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

4. The internet is not a thing, so much
as an agreement about how many
things should communicate with
one another - Rob Holmes

5. Gazpacho is not a thing, so much as
a set of cultural relations between
things (tomato, pepper, cucumber,
garlic, bread) - José Luis de Vicente

7. OpenData and
the City
OpenData Cities

8. To introduce a new infrastructure
you need to address the entire
ecosystem.

10. Creating an environment for change

11. FutureEverything Festival

12. The FutureEverything Award
Bringing the future into the present.

14. The Data Dimension

15. OurTravel
Transport information sharing creating social
transport communities.

16. OurCity
Enable thousands of people to have their voice
heard and to shape the future of their city.

17. Networking the World
Olympics Data Visualisation Artwork
**Under construction**

18. OpenData and
the City
OpenData Cities

19. Explore the connections between
people, emerging technologies and
possible futures.

20. Social change

21. Spanish Revolution 2011
Photo VeganWarrior (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

22. Spanish Revolution 2011
Photo Xugardust (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

23. Spanish Revolution 2011
Photo VeganWarrior (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

24. infrastructure is
political

25. Digital culture
FutureEverything (formerly Futuresonic)
was established in 1995 as a platform
for digital art and culture.

26. Julian Priest, circa 1990

27. Julian Priest, circa 1990

28. Julian Priest, circa 1990

29. Julian Priest, circa 1990

30. Julian Priest, circa 1990

31. Locative Media:
The return of the “Here”

32. Locative Arts
Or, art by the geospatially uninhibited
New ways of seeing, sensing
and representing
Radar, sonar, GPS, WiFi,
Bluetooth, cellular, GIS, etc
Seeking an art of mobile
communications:
Are there any forms of expression
that are intrinsic or unique to mobile
and wireless media?

33. •We are all being mapped,
•all of the time
•The devices we carry leave
traces of our movements

34. Loca: Set To Discoverable (2004-6)
Loca consists of a small network inside each node is a Bluetooth device, encased in concrete for use in the
of nodes... made of readily available components, urban environment.
The nodes are deployed in public spaces.

35. infrastructure is
political

36. Facebook and Facial Recognition

37. GRL - Graffiti Research Lab

38. Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima
Ten Thousand Cents
10,000 individuals working in isolation from one
another paint a tiny part of a $100 bill.

39. Anonymous

40. OpenData and
the City
OpenData Cities

41. Methods
(are for geeks)

47. Festival As Lab Method
From activism and interactive arts
to social and digital innovation.

48. FutureEverything: Festival As Lab
Festivals can be agile RND environments for real-world
rapid prototyping, open innovation and user-led design.
A city-wide festival can transform a city into a
playspace by enabling artists and designers
to play with the DNA of a city.

50. FutureEverything Innovation Labs
Bringing the future into the present.
Year-round innovation labs, lasting between 9-36
months, each looking at a specific theme, feeding in
and out of the festival, which acts as a living lab.

51. Past FutureEverything Labs
futureeverything.org/innovation
Data Arts (2010-11) Low Grade (2005)
Open Data Cities (2009-11) Mobile Connections (2003-5)
Distant Collaboration (2009-10) FutureDJ (2004)
The City Experiment (2010) Turntable Re:mix (2004)
Environment 2.0 (2006-9) Migrations (2002-3)
Social Networking Unplugged Blacktronica (2002)
(2007-8) Sensurround (2001-2)
Art For Shopping Centres (2007) BrokenChannel (2001)
Futurevisual (2007) Audiovisions (2000)
Off The Map (2006) SenseSonic (1999)
Instrument (2006) The first Futuresonic (1996)

52. The FutureEverything Community
Global Network.
A destination for a world-wide community of
artists, technologists and future-thinkers.

53. Research Platform
FutureEverything (formerly Futuresonic) part of
Lancaster University's successful RAE2008.
Member of the European Network of Living Labs
(ENoLL).

54. FutureEverything & Manchester
FutureEverything has a close relationship with its host
city, Greater Manchester in England.
It is an intermediary operating at the meeting point
between the public, practitioners and policy makers.

55. Digital Innovation
Developing into a national framework for art and digital
innovation, at the heart of the UKʼs innovation ecology.

56. Elegant Partnerships
Pioneered a new relationship for a festival with its
partners and host city ("elegant partnerships")

57. Intermediary and ideas catalyst
An intermediary between the public, policymakers,
industry and practitioners including grassroots
communities of developers and users.

58. Community is king
Community is king, so build up your social capital, get
connected, and let new smart ecosystems evolve.

59. Open sourcing the festival
Shift from curating and producing art in a conventional
way to developing and distributing kits and platforms.

60. Routes to impact
Creating sustainable relationships and positive
change in society and the arts? Can we focus
on impact and artist merit at the same time?

61. Past
Innovation
Labs

62. Mobile Connections
(2003-5)

63. Off The Map (2006)

64. Urban Interface - Hacking Cities

65. Mediashed The Duellists (2007)
View film

66. Social Networking Unplugged (2007-8)

67. Environment 2.0 (2006-9)

68. Environment 2.0
Social sensing and
participatory mass
observation of local
environment and
climate.
http://futuresonic.com/09/env20

69. One billion eyes
"A populace so knowing and capable that
all problems get noticed and addressed,
quickly, by a billion eyes."
- David Brin

70. Climate Bubbles
A playful, participatory
project in which bubble
blowing games enable
people across the city
of Manchester to test air
flow circulation, and by
sharing the results
online, enable the Met
Office to get a snapshot
the Urban Heat Island
phenomenon
Drew Hemment, Carlo
Buontempo, Alfie Dennen

71. Distant Collaboration (2009-10)
Exploring new ways to be globally connected,
and the potential for artworks involving remote
collaboration.

72. Globally Networked Event (GloNet)
Developing a new type of global event taking us to
new corners of the globe and reducing air travel.
Shifting from a single city event, to one taking
place simultaneously at venues around the globe.

73. The City Experiment (2010)
Serendipity City Challenge

74. The City Debate

75. OpenData and
the City
OpenData Cities

83. Unique opportunity in GM
Partnership with Trafford Council
Curate an environment for change
Deliver the openness
Build the ecosystem for the city

84. Raw Data Now (just make it open)
Not about Five Star Data
GTFS (Google/General Transit Feed
Specification)
DataGM to be based upon a CKAN
system (a catalogue that points to data
rather than hosting it, same system as
data.gov.uk)

85. Grow the community and SROI
Realtime specification for GTFS
Load balanced cloud platforms

86. Build a city API and SDK - creating
standardised civic data across
European cities

87. Internet of Things - move to create
small scale mesh networks with
hyperconnectivity

88. Citizen generated data - We believe
that it is essential for citizens to take
ownership of data, to create and also
contextualise

89. Spanish Revolution 2011
Photo VeganWarrior (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

91. eat data
(its good for you)

92. Drew Hemment
FutureEverything &
ImaginationLancaster
@toodrew
@FuturEverything
@ImaginationLanc
#futr