Arizona State University will hold Emerge a festival and series of presentations, workshops, and installations held from March 1st through the 3rd in Tempe, Arizona. The event centers around the idea of how humans are changing due to emerging technologies shaping our relationships, minds and surrounding landscapes. They ask What kinds of humans will we become? What kinds of humans should we become?
Highlights include:
Presentation: Gaming the Future, Seriously
Jim Gee and Sasha Barab, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Presentation: Sensor Networks in Search of Meaningful Knowledge
Andreas Spanias and Pavan Turaga; Fulton Schools of Engineering, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Workshop: Design Fiction
“Design fictions” are objects, videos and performances – firmly grounded in technological reality – that resemble visitations from the future meant to roll home movies on the inside of our skulls about how we might desire our future to be. This is not just about gear, it’s about narrative. The Design Fiction group participants include: Bruce Sterling (coordinator), Julian Bleecker, co–founder of Near Future Laboratory, a design–to–think studio, and Stuart Candy, senior foresight and innovation specialist at Arup, a global firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists.
Keynote: Stewart Brand
Keynote: Bruce Mau
Keynote: Bruce Sterling
Learn more about the event and schedule of events at: http://emerge.asu.edu/
