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2-3 May 2014, London Venues: Chelsea College of Art and Design (UAL) & Institute of Modern Languages Research

PROGRAMME Friday 2 May

Venue: Chelsea College of Art and Design (UAL) 9.00 10.00 Registration and coffee 10.00 10.15 Welcome and Introduction 10.15 11.00 Keynote speaker: Prof. Alberto Abruzzese 11.00 13.00 Parallel sessions A1
Craig Bremner and Laura Bernadet, The Museum of the Future: a sedimentary cloud Diego Trujillo Pisan, Sarah Matindlae, Abigail Durrant, Exploring Digital Life Transitions through Design Fiction Andrea Miconi, The Crowdsourcing of Memory: a distributed Self? Claudio Celis, Time, labour and power in the Attention Economy

B1
Kristian Shaw, An Atlas of Clouds: David Mitchells Future Memory Emanuela Piga, Futures Past and Time regained: Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces Pat Cox, Mark Dooris, Jo Guiver, Julian Manley, Past understandings, Present Learnings, Future Practices Sarah Casey Benyahia, A bursting forth of life: Remembering as political act in contemporary art house cinema

C1
Angela Fabris, Heart of sky, heart of earth Liam Sprod, The Blackening of Epekeina Tes Ousias Monika Markiewicz, Transitions in Time Inci Olgun, The Negociator in Time-Space Relation: Memory

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13.00 14.00 Lunch 14.00 15.30 Parallel sessions A2

Manuela Farinosi/Alessandra Micalizzi, Reconstructing memories after a natural catastrophe: how social media contribute to reviving the citys heritage after lAquila earthquake Manca Bajec, Representational reconciliation: observing commemoration through online memorials Fernanda Albertoni 'I will have seen a different future if I look at the past': the future present tense of revisionisms promoted by generatives uses of archives.

B2
Colleen Becker, The Socialist Imagination: Envisioning the Future through the Past in XIX century Arbeiterkultur and Arbeiterbewegungskultur Lszl Munten Models of Postmemory in Walter Abishs How German Is It: Wie Deutsch Ist Es and Gnter Grasss Crabwalk Aleksandra Szczepan, The Imaginary of Postmemory: New Archetypes of Visual Remembering Historic Traumas

C2
Ben Tyrer, Against a Future Ethics: Edelman, Levinas and Dexter Julia Eccleshare, Mortal Engines and The Hunger Games: how myths from the past shape visions of a sustainable future Flavio Michele Ceci, Facing doubts of anthropological changes

15.30 17.00 Parallel sessions A3

Cecilia Sosa, Performing a space for the future Tabula Rasa (2013) & the battle of memory at Argentinas main detention camp Nela Milic, Bring streets into your home contain the revolution! Sandra Wilson, A window into the future taboos and desires of identity management

B3
Hiroki Yamamoto, After Fukushima, between Fukushima and before Fukushima Livia Dubon & Chiara Piovesan, Memory is running away with Fantasy looking for new adventures. Verina Gfader, Notebooks spirit Uwe Derksen, Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside

17.00 17.30 Coffee break 17.30 18.15

Lecture: Italian Futurism (tbc)

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18.15 19.45 Re-thinking Futurism A4

Beatrice Sica, New Gallops for old horse riders: Emanuele Luzzatis and Giulio Gianinis reworking of a futurist theme Illaria Puri Purini (title to be confirmed) Ashwani Sharma, Manifesto for a Planetary Futurism

B4
Film screening: Future my love by Maja Borg
Future My Love is a unique love story challenging our collective and personal utopias in search of freedom. At the brink of losing the idealistic love of her life, filmmaker Maja Borg takes us on a poetic road trip through the financial collapse, exploring a radically different economic and social model proposed by 95-year-old futurist Jacque fresco.

19.45 20.30 Wine Reception Italian Futurism 20.30 Conference dinner

Saturday 3 May
Venue: Senate House 9.00 10.00 Registration and coffee 10.00 10.45 Keynote speaker: Dr. Malcolm Quinn 11.00 13.00 Parallel sessions F1
Francis Gene-Rowe, Escape from Time: Immortality and Reality in William Burroughs & Philip Dick Sarah Bonner, Happily Ever After? Visions of a fairy tale dystopia in the contemporary visual arts. Daniel Ogden, He who controls the past controls the future, Orwell, 1984

G1
Stanislav Lvovsky, Postcommunist androids, postimperial wars and other memories of dystopian future: world according to contemporary Russian poet Fedor Svarovskiy Pere Gallardo Torrano, Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future: reflections on pre-Asimovian Robot fiction Mihye An, Species of Media Architecture Austin Houldsworth, Counterfiction: a methodology for designing within alternative worlds

H1
Gaia Giuliani, The future (past?) boundaries of citizenship: elimination, inclusion, contamination Gabriele Proglio, (Post)atomic futures Vera Benczik, The City in ruins: post-9/11 representations of cataclysmic New York on Film Emma Anna James, How landscapes in American post-apocalyptic film represents the ideology of American Exceptionalism

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13.00 14.00 Lunch 14.00 16.00 Parallel sessions F2

Guiver, McGrath, Cox, Manley, Speeding towards the past James Trafford, Prometheanism and Speculative Design Robert Davidson, Gauds New York: The Hotel Attraction as Future Baroque Ricarda Vidal Building Tunnels, Linking Continents, Building Peace

G2
E Scott Denison, Design Fiction: A Countermeasure for Technology Surprise Dan Smith, Architecture, Violence and Hope: a Visitors Guide to Mega City One Simona Venditti, The modern utopia. Smart cities and other images of the future Debora Lanzeni, Practices of Future: the material imagination of smart technologies

H2
Katarzyna Baran, Violent Pasts, Peaceful Futures: Past, Creativity, Music and Art in Womens PostApocalyptic Dystopias Amaya FernandezMenicucci, Future Memories of Masculine Identities: A comparison of the 1990 film Total Recall and its 2012 remake Barnita Bagchi, Ladylands and Imagined Uprisings: the multiple temporalities of English-language SouthAsian fiction

16.00 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 18.00 Parallel sessions F3

Karl Bell, (Un)knotting time: Imagining Past Futures in early Victorian street ballads Maria Lourdes Otaegi Imaz, Arthur in Iberia. The passion of the past reflected in the future Iolanda Ramos, Alternate Histories. Neo-Victorian utopian appropriation of the past

G3
Cristina Miranda de Almeida, Art, new sensibilities and hybrid memory ecologies Penny McCarthy, Mirror: Time will darken paper Lianne Toussaint, From Hardware to Softwear: the Future Memories of Smart Fashion

H3
Tess Jewell, Cyber-blind: Archetypal Disability in Cyberpunk Film Grace Halden, (Future) Apocalypse Now Alba Escriu, Imagining Future Scenarios: Maggie Gee

17.30 19.00 Workshops: School of change (Jennet Thomas) + Social dreaming (Julian Manley. Pat Cox, Mark Doris, Jo Guiver) 19.30 Conclusions and greetings

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