Dr. Drew Hemment
Associate Director
+44 (0) 1524 593526
Art & Technology, The City and Technology, Social Technologies, Collaborative Art, Technology and Society, Sustainability in Urban Environments, Open Source Culture
Drew is Associate Director of ImaginationLancaster. He explores the connections between people, emerging technologies and possible futures. His work focuses on Art and Social Technologies, and he was instrumental in the emergence of the field of Locative Media. In his research, art offers a set of resources for envisioning social and technological change in a way that is inherently participatory, and for opening up disruptive spaces of play.
Areas of research interest include Social Technologies; Art & Technology; Sustainability in Urban Environments; Locative Media; The City and Technology; Everyday Creativity; Collaborative Art; Open Source Culture and the Public Sphere; Ethics, Privacy and Control.
He is director and founder of Futuresonic Urban Festival of Art, Music and Ideas, which is conceived as a catalyst for moments of creative emergence across boundaries and has a distinctive focus on social technologies, art and the city. Through Futuresonic he has curated the first major art exhibition on mobile and locative media (Mobile Connections, 2004) and the first major art exhibition on social networking (Social Networking Unplugged, 2008). A recent art project was Loca: Set To Discoverable which premiered at ISEA2006 and ZeroOne in San Jose.
Social Futures: Online, Mobile And Unplugged
Advancing understanding of online, mobile and unplugged social networks, using art and design to offer new perspectives. A focus is Social Networking Unplugged, the first major art exhibition to present a comprehensive and creative look at social networking. Here disruptive cultural probes ask what would happen if online social networks were 'unplugged.'
How Can We Remake Cities
The project will explore the multiple, overlapping social spaces that make up the city, and study the interface between social technologies and lived, social spaces. Its focus will be upon the proliferation of social technologies in urban spaces, the everyday creativity of urban populations, and the use of arts-based methodologies to explore urban social futures.
Environment 2.0: Urban Climate Camp
Develop new cross-disciplinary thinking on environmental sustainability, and develop and test innovations that can enable individuals and communities to live in a more sustainable way in urban settings. Basic research into technological and social innovation will be combined with public engagement.
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