The 2019 Festival will take place on Saturday 28th September at the The Fashion Hub in Liverpool
9:30 | Coffee and Registration |
OPENING SHORT TALKS
Two short talks to welcome our audience and highlight the surprising
facets of maintenance.
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10:00 |
Keeping Things Dead
Herbarium Curator, Liverpool World Museum
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Community IoT Sensor Networks as a Self-Made Burden
Network Architect and Sensor Herder, Love Hz
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10:30 |
Maintenance and Alternative Economic Models
Architect
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11:00 | Coffee |
FRAGILITY
We know that we need to maintain fragile things. But what about things
that people don’t realise are fragile – from roads to CD-ROMS – and therefore don’t care for them
properly?
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11:30 |
How Heritage Organisations Understand ‘Digital’ Material –
and Therefore How They Are Maintained
Digital Curator, British Library
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The High Hidden Costs of Potholes
Senior Lecturer, Civil Engineering, Brunel University
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Visible Clothes Repair and Fragile Textile Skill Supply
Tom of Holland, Artist and Activist
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Bins, Buses and Housing: The systems that make them work
Head of Data at The Open Data Institute, Leeds
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13:00 | Lunch |
AFTER LUNCHTIME TALK
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14:00 |
Open Data 101: How to Create and Maintain Data in
Collaborative Ways
CEO, Open Data Institute
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MAINTENANCE IN A CLIMATE CRISIS
We are already experiencing climate crisis. The uncertainty around
environmental factors means that in the future, our built environment will require a far higher
value placed on maintenance than at present. Whilst maintenance falls outside many current economic
models, what happens when we have no longer have the luxury to ignore it?
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14:20 |
Decoupling and the Maintenance Mindset
Professor, The New School, NYC
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Reducing Carbon in the Digital Realm – a Life Cycle View
Organiser of ClimateAction.tech and Director of the Green Web Foundation
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15:00 | Coffee |
CITIES AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Without continuous care and maintenance, urban systems – everything from
transport, networked utilities, housing and green spaces – are prone to breakdown. Maintaining
cities is a major task for technical experts and communities alike, and the priority given to this
work reflects wider societal challenges.
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15:30 |
Social Housing Maintenance and the Ethics of Care
Reader in Architecture and Urbanism, Cardiff University
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Building Bridges
Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University
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16:15 | Panel Discussion |
17:00 | Festival Closes |
Drinks at the Fashion Hub and we may adjourn to another local venue later |