u19 Create your World, Credit: Florian Voggeneder
Calling all Future Experts aged 4-19
Be part of an outdoor round-table discussion in Newcastle’s beautiful surroundings! If you’re into Art, Music, Science, Leadership and care about the future, the Future Innovators Summit (FIS) Newcastle would love you to join in the discussion with a range of artists, scientists and leaders about key future issues. We are searching for young people from diverse backgrounds, future influencers and young art thinkers across the Hunter.
Applications are currently open and will close on September 12, 2022.
The FIS Newcastle is an extended program of the global event Ars Electronica 2022 - Welcome to PLANET B.
FIS Newcastle will be focusing on the following topics :
FUTURE CITY
FUTURE WORK
FUTURE EDUCATION
Do you consider yourself a future influencer?
FIS Newcastle topics:
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FUTURE CITY
Everyone’s talking about smart and creative future cities, focusing on technology. But what is a smart city? Isn't it actually about us, the people who live in these cities? Imagine a smart city with smarter citizens… How do we share our ideas as young people with the adults in charge of making change?… Imagine your ideal future city. How do you feel about it and what does smart mean to you?
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FUTURE WORK
New generations are a catalyst for contemporary views on work attitude and practice of today. So too are new technologies such as AI which are already reshaping the modern work landscape. Many believe the future of work is mostly remote. How do we want our future work to be and with a positive purpose for the community? How can we create an ideal, balanced work and life balance? Do you see yourself collaborating with more machines in your future work?
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FUTURE EDUCATION
Due to Covid-19, the future of learning is going through a huge shift and it's happening so fast. Information is at our fingertips - whether you're an educator or a student. What works and what doesn’t work with this new realm? How do we take on this change and find better ways to learn? How do we open it up to make it a two-way learning stream? How do we find ways to teach educators in our new age of information?
APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN
Please submit an application below to have the opportunity to be part of the Future Innovators Summit 2022, and have your voice heard. Applications close September 12, 2022.
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Email us at fis@artthinking.com.au for any questions or comments.
We aim to create:
we’re not just a think-tank, but also a “do-tank” for social innovation.
Program Overview
Day 1 (Thurs) Sep 22 - 5pm: Welcome & Kickoff
Day 2 (Fri) Sep 23 - FIS Breakfast | Inspiration Flash Talks | FIS Safari
Day 3 (Sat) Sep 24 - Creative Question Challenge (CQC) | Mentor Sessions | Workshops | Global Expert Forum
Day 4 (Sun): Workshops | FIS Presentation & Performance | CQ Parade
Do you like to question, reflect and activate ideas that can inspire a better future?
The future feels like a distant planet far away from our world… But how does this planet look like?
The Future Innovators Summit (FIS) is a special hands-on discussion program, which has been jointly developed by Ars Electronica (AT) and Hakuhodo (JP). FIS is a collaborative do tank with the purpose of finding Creative Questions about the future, shaped by innovators from all over the world. Future Innovators from different cultures and professions – such as artists, designers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, social activists and philosophers – will explore new ways of collective brainstorming! We must find the important questions for humankind and create our future!
All small images (above) courtesy of Ars Electronica
All main images courtesy of u19 Create your World, credit: Florian Voggeneder.
Except image 3, credit: Martin Hieslmair and image 4, credit: Birgit Cakir
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