A Transdisciplinary Symposium
November 6–10, 2024
Call for proposals
This present time is characterised by numerous social, technological and ecological processes of change and subsequent multiple crises. These are so deeply interwoven that we can no longer confront them individually but only by interlinking their practices and their protagonists on a broad basis.
IMPACT24 is a transdisciplinary forum that asks the question: how can experiences within the arts, technology, urban spaces and the sciences as well as societal fields of knowledge, such as play, sport or crafts, operate and be effective across contexts and disciplines?
Which configurations and practices will succeed in translating existing insights into radically different—yet simultaneously concrete—possibilities and scenarios? What techniques and activities, rituals and forms of play, and which protagonists and spaces should be taken into consideration in order to make the critical design processes of our societies more accessible, more inclusive and fundamentally more diverse? How can artistic and other emancipatory practices of transformation, activation, care and sharing be brought together? What roles do spaces of unpredictability, difference and ambivalence play within this evaluation?
IMPACT22 focussed on the knowledge and action zones of locally networked communities, then IMPACT23 considered human attention and its expansion through complex interactions between humans, ecosystems and the technosphere. Now, IMPACT24 invites us all to dedicate ourselves to transformative practices that become effective on the threshold between scenario and reality.
This call for proposals welcomes propositions and projects emerging from artistic, scientific, social, activist or technological fields of work and whose contributors would like to openly share their approaches with other experts. Based on the contributions selected, the four-day symposium will be flanked by thought-provoking presentations in the form of lectures and artistic interventions. Details of the public programme and the invited speakers will be available online shortly at: pact-zollverein.de.
Click here to apply.
Closing date: September 25, 2024 (11:59pm CET)
Participation: IMPACT24 is aimed at practitioners and theorists from the fields of the arts, science, journalism, technology, activism, social work and architecture.
To participate, you can submit your own contribution through the call for proposals, which will be shared and discussed with other international experts during IMPACT24’s assembly (with remuneration). Travel costs will be covered and local accommodation will be provided.
Contact: Juliane Beck, impact@pact-zollverein.de
