Imagining Futures: Inaugural Online Symposium
- Rebuilding Connections
- 5-7 November 2025
- Online Symposium
Rebuilding Connections explores the intersections of art, humanities, environmental sustainability, and technology. Bringing together scholars, artists, and practitioners, the conference aims to foster dialogue on how creative and critical approaches can address global challenges. Sessions will cover topics ranging from eco-art and sustainable design to digital humanities and green technology, offering participants the chance to rethink how we connect with our environment and each other. Rebuilding Connections seeks to inspire collaborative solutions and innovative projects that bridge disciplines to create a more sustainable and inclusive future.
Imagining Futures: Inaugural Online Symposium offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and critique. It is a place for critical engagement, examination, and experimentation, developing ideas that connect theory and practice. We seek to build a community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries.
Imagining Futures: Inaugural Online Symposium features research addressing the following annual themes and special focus.
Imagining Futures: Inaugural Online Symposium will feature plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Plenary speakers, chosen from among the world’s leading thinkers, offer formal presentations on topics linked to annual themes. Generally no questions or discussions during these sessions. Instead, plenary speakers answer questions and participate in informal, extended discussions in the Garden Conversations.
Online: Online asynchronous recordings of the plenary sessions will be delivered as recorded videos for the delegates to view at their own pace. Delegates and plenary speakers will have access to discussion boards for conversation and questions.
Talking Circles offer an opportunity to meet other delegates with similar interests and concerns. Delegates self-select into groups based on broad thematic areas and then engage in extended discussion about the issues and concerns they feel are of utmost importance to that segment of the Research Network. Participation is open, encouraged, and supported.
Online: An online space to meet other delegates to discuss thematic areas. A meeting time will be assigned to each conference theme throughout the days of the conference. For those unable to join at that time, a recording will be made available and a discussion boards for conversation and questions.
This type of session is best suited for reports on completed research or scholarly work. Authors present summaries or overviews of their work, describing the essential features (related to purpose, procedures, outcomes or product).
Online: All Themed Paper Presentations are delivered asynchronously via a digital media upload.
We ask for a fully pre-recorded presentation of no more than 20 minutes to be uploaded to each presenter's Presenter Page. Online-only presenters are welcome to include visual supports (PDF, PP, etc.) to assist delivery of their pre-recorded presentation. These will be available to all conference participants. An online discussion board will facilitate conversation and be open to in-person and online participants.
Please see the guide for more information on digital media uploads and formats.
This format is ideal for presenting preliminary results of work in progress or for projects that lend themselves to visual displays and representations. Each display should include a brief abstract of the purpose and procedures of the work. Authors may submit a formal paper describing their work to the journal associated with their proposal.
Online: Provide your poster in PDF or single PowerPoint slide. Please be sure that the file resolution is sufficient to be able to read these when downloaded. An online discussion board will be available to facilitate conversation, and will be open to both in-person and online participants.
| Early | 5 February 2025 | $150 |
| Regular | 5 July 2025 | $200 |
| Late | 5 October 2025 | $250 |
(Returning Member / Student)
Returning Members and Students are asked to request a reduced rate registration. Please upload proof of student status or previous membership.
| Early | 5 February 2025 | $100 |
| Regular | 5 July 2025 | $150 |
| Late | 5 October 2025 | $200 |
| Early | 5 February 2025 | $75 |
| Regular | 5 July 2025 | $125 |
| Late | 5 October 2025 | $175 |
(Returning Member / Student)
Returning Members and Students are asked to request a reduced rate registration. Please upload proof of student status or previous membership.
| Early | 5 February 2025 | $50 |
| Regular | 5 July 2025 | $100 |
| Late | 5 October 2025 | $150 |