FUTUREPLACES, edition 9
18 – 22 OCTOBER 2016
THROUGHOUT THE MEDIALAB
Radio Manobras Futuras broadcasts live at radiomanobras.pt
The Fountain Project reinvents the iconic PINC Fountain (in partnership with MADEP)
Ephemera exhibition: Movimentos Estudantis na Universidade do Porto, 1968-1974 at UPTEC PINC. Curated by José Pacheco Pereira. Until October 31.
TUESDAY 18 OCT
2-5PM
Citizen Lab: Memórias do Copiógrafo
An arcane technology of manual printing, originally used in student revolts at U.Porto in the Sixties and Seventies, is resurrected and put to use.
In association with Ephemera, ID+ and ESAD
@ UPTEC PINC, Garden pavilion
5:30PM onwards
Exhibition opening: Movimentos Estudantis na Universidade do Porto, 1968-1974
[MEUP 68-74]
Drawings, posters, pamphlets and miscellaneous items documenting historical student movements and the ways in which clandestine information was disseminated.
Curated by José Pacheco Pereira, in association with Ephemera, ID+ and Mira Forum.
Event starts at Reitoria U.Porto (the original location of many student assemblies), moving to the exhibition at UPTEC PINC.
A Porto D’Honra will be served.
WEDNESDAY 19 OCT
9:30AM -5:30 PM
UTAustin | Portugal Digital Media Doctoral Symposium
Students and recent graduates of the PhD Program in Digital Media (U.Porto / UNL / U.Madeira) share their latest research. Discussion panels weave the topics into research threads. Features keynote by Patricia Aufderheide at 2:30PM (see below).
@ UPTEC PINC auditorium
10AM – 1PM
Citizen Lab: Behind the Curtain
Making a stopmotion video using Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth as a guideline to build stories.
@ Communication Sciences TV studio
10:30AM – 12:30PM
Citizen Lab: Hunting for Logos
An expedition through the University of Porto, finding the multiple ways in which the name is inscribed on its walls and surfaces.
@ UPTEC PINC, PhDDesign studio
2PM
MEUP 68-74: Exhibition tour 1
Testimonies by those who participated in the student revolts and authored documents on display
@ UPTEC PINC
2:30PM
Keynote by PATRICIA AUFDERHEIDE
Collaborative Creativity: How to Share the Challenge of Imagining the Future
@ UPTEC PINC auditorium, part of the Digital Media Doctoral Symposium
3:30-6:30PM
Citizen Lab: Antifluffy Go!
Now’s your chance to discover and capture the Antifluffies all around you.
Gotta catch ’em all!
@ UPTEC PINC garden and building
7-8PM
OPENFIELD
Revisiting the open lab inaugurated one year ago by UTA-P students and researchers. What has been going on, what to expect next?
@ Rua das Taipas 133
THURSDAY 20 OCT
9:30AM
Join Citizen Labs!
A sample of all Citizen Labs on offer at futureplaces 2016
@ UPTEC PINC auditorium
10:30AM-1:30PM
Citizen Lab: Mementos from a Better Future / session 1
Participants will be challenged to envision the artifacts present in an ‘Utopian Ephemera’ archive from late in the 21st century.
@ UPTEC PINC, PhDDesign studio
10:30AM-1:30PM
Citizen Lab: Hack a Farm / session 1
An open lab aimed at discussing, designing and prototyping new interfaces for Open Agriculture.
@ UPTEC PINC garden
2PM
MEUP 68-74: Exhibition tour 2
Testimonies by those who participated in the student revolts and authored documents on display
@ UPTEC PINC
3-4PM
Citizen Lab: Vozes para um Comício
Cheer in advance for the Great ±plusminus± Rally!
@ UPTEC PINC auditorium
3-6PM
Citizen Lab: An Uncertain Film / session 1
Shoot as if the camera is an extension of yourself.
@ UPTEC PINC, PhDDesign studio
3-6PM
Citizen Lab: Copywrong
A creation experience to identify the “dos” and “don’ts” of copyright rules in the performing arts (and how to turn “donts” in “dos”).
@ UPTEC PINC garden pavilion
10PM
Film Screening:
147 PIANOS
Produced and directed by DOLORES WILBER
Followed by a talk with the author.
Preceded by short film
Patrioska
An animation by Tiago Araújo
@ Passos Manuel
FRIDAY 21 OCT
9:30AM
Breakfast with Dolores Wilber and Patricia Aufderheide
An informal conversation on current projects and outlooks by our guests Patricia Aufderheide and Dolores Wilber
Coffee and muchies will be served in order to help wake us up gently.
@ UPTEC PINC garden pavilion
10:30AM-1:30PM
Citizen Lab: Mementos from a Better Future / session 2
Participants will be challenged to envision the artifacts present in an ‘Utopian Ephemera’ archive from late in the 21st century.
@ UPTEC PINC, PhDDesign studio
10.30 AM-1.30 PM (open workshop)
3 PM-6 PM (post-production)
Citizen Lab: [U.] Porto Personal
Mapping personal geographies and telling a fraction of the story of University and Porto nowadays.
@ Reitoria U.Porto (AM) / Communication Sciences (PM)
2PM
MEUP 68-74: Exhibition tour 3
Testimonies by those who participated in the student revolts and authored documents on display
@ UPTEC PINC
3-6PM
Citizen Lab: An Uncertain Film / session 2
Shoot as if the camera is an extension of yourself.
@ UPTEC PINC, PhDDesign studio
3-6PM
Citizen Lab: Hack a Farm / session 2
An open lab aimed at discussing, designing and prototyping new interfaces for Open Agriculture.
@ UPTEC PINC garden
4PM
Virtual Reality: Keeping it Real
A think-tank of experts envisioning current applications and future developments in VR.
With Sharon Strover, Maximino Bessa, Daniel Catalão and António Coelho
@ UPTEC PINC auditorium
6PM
Multimedia @ U.Porto
A presentation of the Multimedia Masters course of U.Porto and some of its works.
@ UPTEC PINC
6:30PM
The Fountain Project: Liquid Future?
Opening of installation by Daniel Sousa
In partnership with MADEP FBAUP
@ UPTEC PINC
10PM onwards
Arcade Room
Where visitors play videogames: old, new, working, collapsing.
@ Passos Manuel basement
10PM onwards
Arcade Broom: a walk-in karaoke remix concert by Antifluffy
Accompanied by the futureplaces impromptu all-stars laptopestra
Using the soundtracks from the simultaneous videogame basement as audio source material.
People are invited to drift as they please between the two parallel events.
@ Passos Manuel auditorium
SATURDAY 22 OCT
ALL AT PASSOS MANUEL
2:30-3:30PM
Citizen Lab:
± Grande Comício MaisMenos ±
Flags, stickers, speeches and more!
@ Passos Manuel auditorium
4PM
The Academy of Citizens
All Citizen Labs share the work developed. Dress code: informal!
Special guests: Mira Forum
@ Passos Manuel basement
6:30PM
The University of Porto Digital Museum
Project Launch by Vice-Rector Maria de Fátima Marinho
@ Passos Manuel auditorium
followed by
Closing Remarks
@ Passos Manuel auditorium
8:30PM
dinner and drinks
10:30PM
Manobras in the Dark
An audio summary of FP2016 provided by Radio Manobras Futuras
followed by
GRAVITAS
Premiere and launch of studio reconstruction of FP2015 closing concert
with visuals by Museu do Resgate, edited by Daniel Brandão
in association with Touch
@ Passos Manuel auditorium
Mission accomplished: we dance the night away to the sounds of DJ Normal4!
END!
