COMIXED: A NETWORKED CONVERSATION
12pm – 2pm, Wed 28th October, The Zion Arts Centre, Manchester

The Manchester Beacon designed Comixed as a way of bringing different people together to explore ideas collaboratively.

It’s about listening and speaking and learning.  The first Comixed is themed around science and was planned to tie into the Manchester Science Festival.

It’s being delivered in association with the Research Councils UK (RCUK) because it takes some of the RCUK’s cross-cutting scientific challenges as a starting point for discussions; so issues like the digital economy, climate change, synthetic biology, food security and ageing are all being discussed.

Comixed is subtitled “A Networked Conversation” because it will be tracked and captured using different forms of social technology.

Illustrators will listen to, and take part in the conversations transforming some of the ideas and themes into comics that can then be used to demonstrate what people think about some of the issues.

Ultimately we hope that Comixed will provide a blueprint for the way in which all of the Manchester Beacon’s conversations should be handled. We hope that the event will be creative, fun and useful to everybody that takes the time to come along.

The Manchester Beacon is working with a talented creative team to produce Comixed: A Networking Conversation. The team is Julian from Littlestar TV, Chris from OH Digital, Chi-chi from Real Fresh TV and Geth and Pete from We Are Young.