20% Discount on Manchester Design Symposium Professional Ticket Manchester Design Symposium brings the world of design to the city in a series of presentations from leading thinkers and practitioners. The Symposium, led by the Design Initiative, was established in response to calls from the city to ...

FutureEverything announce Blast Theory as part of this year's festival art programme   Blast Theory is a Brighton-based artists' group that uses interactive media to create art for live performance. They will create I'd Hide You, a "game of stealth, cunning and adventure' to be experienced by p ...

The Internet of Things live at Oxfam now! A project that first saw the light of day at FutureEverything in 2010 has now launched at 10 Oxfam shops across Manchester. Oxfam Shelflife allows people to leave behind and access memories and stories on donated items, bringing the "internet of things' to a ...

FutureEverything was named in the Guardian's Top 10 Ideas Festivals in last week's issue: "Manchester stalwart FutureEverything has been mashing together music, innovation and art since 1996. This year, it's taking over the warehouses of the Museum of Science and Industry to stimulate debate on the ...

We have just confirmed Bilal Randeree as a speaker at the FutureEverything Conference in  2012. Bilal Randeree is Social Media and Online Producer for Al Jazeera English (AJE) based in Doha, Qatar. He works in the newsroom, using online tools and platforms for news-gathering stories from around the ...

The Creative Exchange and Lancaster University (FutureEverything's research partner) are seeking talented digital designers, makers, researchers and facilitators for funded opportunities in an exciting collaborative project with a range of academic and industrial partners in the creative and digit ...

Naja Bagi and Tullis Rennie are The Electronic Exchange; an inter-European duo who write, record and produce their music collaboratively - entirely via the web - from their homes in Manchester and Barcelona. The Electronic Exchange are touring their new live show in February 2012 and will collabor ...