Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Future Everything returns to Manchester, exploring the meeting point between science, technology and culture in various venues across the city, including the RNCM and Manchester Town Hall.
For the last two decades, we've been hosting events, debates and a conference which makes connections between thinkers, developers, coders, artists, designers, urbanists and policy makers – inspiring them to experiment and to collaborate in new ways.
This year's festival is over four days and features a conference, films, a festival lab for experimentation, plus workshops and speakers.
The theme for the conference, 'What now for memory, ownership, democracy and the weird & wonderful?', gives the organisers an opportunity to look back at the unimaginable ways that technology and the digital age has transformed our lives over the last two decades, whilst nodding to the future. In particular, the Weird & Wonderful section of the weekend always surprises with presentations of the new things coming our way. 3D printing is already SO last year!
Light Barrier, 2014 from Mimi Son on Vimeo.
Future Everything also supports a number of amazing projects which happen all over the world, including 'Light Barrier' (above) which uses millions of beams of light to create ethereal, floating graphic objects. Many of them originated here in Manchester.
Tickets for the conference are still available, but many of the events happening around the festival are free.
Future Everything, Wed Feb 25 - Sat Feb 28