Environment 2.0 Conference Session @ Futuresonic 2007

A cross section of speakers launch a wide-ranging project on the sustainability of future arts and technologies. Introducing a masterplan to take eco-clubbing to the world, including an electricity-generating dancefloor; plans to provide mobile phones with new "super-senses" so that you and I can join together to monitor environmental change; and investigate the question "how green is the internet".

Environment 2.0 is a new international initiative seeking to explore the sustainability of future arts and technologies. It is a part of a 3 year project by Futuresonic seeking to minimise the environmental impact of the Futuresonic festival and also to explore broader issues connecting Futuresonic's interest in mobile and social technologies with the new urgency surrounding climate change.

In Environment 2.0 two worlds collide. When the environment is mapped, tagged and digitised it becomes navigable, computable and manipulable. How can this approach to environment, one which is iconic for our times, be reconciled with the need to address climate change?