New international call for papers on creativity and innovation
creativity New international call for papers on creativity and innovation The biennial Making Futures event has launched a call for papers for the 2024 edition of the conference: ‘Beyond Objects – Materiality at the Edge of Making’. Led by the Arts University Plymouth, Making Futures, which started in 2009, shapes stories that are happening at the criss-crossing interface of creativity and material innovation. And the call for papers is open to the full diversity of life that intersects its path: ‘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 three-day conference in Plymouth, from 17 to 19 October, will also be available online, with the following six tracks now open for submissions. 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. __ Sign up for our newsletter and get the latest innovation news and more sent to your inbox.