The biennial Making Futures conference has launched a global call for papers for its 2024 edition. Led by the Arts University Plymouth, Making Futures shapes stories at the criss-crossing interface of creativity and material innovation.
‘Beyond Objects – Materiality at the Edge of Making’ is the theme this year, with the call for papers open to the full diversity of life connecting the frontiers of creativity and material innovation: ‘designers, artists, makers, educators, scholars, policymakers, scientists’.
Curator Stephanie Owens said: “For this iteration of Making Futures we are most interested in aspects of material-led, creative practices and innovations that expand traditional techniques into new domains of design practice, knowledge production and exchange, interdisciplinary thinking and making, cross-cultural learning and exchange, material hybridity, speculative or new materialism, creative and material ecologies, models of art/science pedagogy, biomaterials, small-scale and distributed material production, circularity in material practice and education, and other physical and philosophical interfaces between life, matter, and creativity.”
The call for papers is open for submissions across six tracks:
- Craftsmanship, Artisanal Knowledge and the Aesthetics of Place
- Rethinking the Relationship Between Body, Fashion and Ornament
- Generative Materials? Toward a Convergence of AI and Matter
- Softsystems – Biology, Networks and Post-natural Frameworks for Co-creativity
- Optimising Craft Techniques for Sustainable Alternatives to Extractive Practices
- Futurecraft – Pathways for Art, Design and Materials Science Research Collaborations
The deadline for submissions is 5pm (BST) 15 April 2024. Apply via the event website.
Making Futures, which started in 2009, is a three-day conference taking place this year in Plymouth, from 17 to 19 October – it will also be broadcast online.
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