Pre-Constituted Panels

Panels should gather 3–4 contributors whose work collectively “breaks the circuit” of normative research, design, pedagogy, or technology. We especially welcome panels that foreground pluriversal knowledge systems, community-rooted inquiry, collaborative/coalitional methodologies, or improvised, resistant, or care-oriented approaches to media and technoculture. Panels may center interruptions, glitches, refusals, or failures as productive theoretical and methodological lenses.

Session Length: 75 minutes total

Submission Requirements

• Panel Title: A title that clearly signals the panel’s disruption, intervention, or reimagining of dominant technological narratives.

• Panel Abstract (200–300 words): Describe the shared thematic thread, the critical stakes, and how the panel’s collective work engages the symposium themes (e.g., disobedient technologies, technologies of otherwise, community co-creation, broken infrastructures, care).

• Individual Presentation Abstracts (200–300 words each): Outline the contribution each speaker makes to the panel’s shared intervention.

• Panel Moderator (optional): Name, brief bio, and rationale for their role in facilitating a collaborative, care-centered conversation.

• Panelist Bios (100–150 words each): Highlight experience, community connections, and/or disciplinary approaches relevant to the panel’s themes.

• Technical/Spatial Needs: Any tools, flexibility, or nontraditional arrangements needed to support experimental or multimodal presentations.