• 16:00 - 17:00 Welcome & reception

• 17:00 - 17:30 - Introduction by Prof. Nick Dunn, Executive Director of ImaginationLancaster, and Chair of Urban Design

FOR A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE, LOOK TO THE PRESENT - PART II

Contemporary cities are fertile soil for science and technology, for culture and innovation, for individual and collective development. However, cities are also places where problems such as Noise-Air-Light-Odour pollution, poverty, unemployment and exclusion run rife. How do artists cope with these challenges? How do they explore major themes such as (over) consumption, globalization and virtualization, resource scarcity, social and economic inequality, privatization and commercialization? Are these challenges an instrument for imagining the future city to criticize society and/or present possibilities for improvement?

• 17:30u - 17:50 - "Songdo: the hype and decline of world’s first smart city" by Seungho Yoo, Urban researcher, KR

• 17:50 - 18:10 - "Deep Lab Retrospective" by Maral Pourkazemi, Member Deeplab, UK

• 18:10 - 18:30 - "Emotion Forecast" by Maurice Benayoun, New-media artist and theorist, FR

• 18:00 - 19:00 - Discussion

• BREAK

FOR A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE, LOOK TO THE FUTURE

Visions of future cities are used to visualize or to concretize what cities themselves will be like. How they will be built, operated and managed and how they will relate to all actors and sectors of society (citizens, governments, businesses, investors, and others). Much of these representations of future cities are based on the real world, derived from real cities we live in and problems we encounter day in day out. Ideas for the future of the city are born in the present; for a huge part we use contemporary cities, their patterns and structures to develop futuristic visions. How can these ideas reflect on our future cities? In what way do they allow us to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective in our vision of future cities?

• 19:30 - 19:50 - "Sentient City Survival Kit: archaeology of the near future" by Mark Shepard, Artist & Architect, US

• 19:50 - 20:10 - "Palimpsest: Shaping our Cities with Virtual Reality" by John Russel Beaumont, Artist & Architect, US

• 20:10 - 20:30 - "Open Sky Project" by by Maurice Benayoun, New-media artist and theorist, FR

• 20:30 - 21:00 - Discussion

• Ongoing: Installation by John Russell Beaumont, Artist & architect