Conference Registration 8:00 - 9:15
14:30 - 14:40
Introducing to the workshop, expectations, schedule, and organisers.
14:40 - 15:10
A round of playful flash introductions from participants
15:10 - 15:25
Provocation by Martim Brandão
15:25 - 15:45
on cruel optimism
Break 15 min
16:00 - 16:15
Provocation by Andrew Hundt
16:15 - 16:30
on lucid despair
16:30 - 17:00
Provocations by David J. Bailey and Emanuel Gollob
17:00 - 17:20
on precarious hope
17:20 - 18:00
The final part of the workshop will focus on collective experimentation. In small groups, participants will be invited to formulate speculative changes to future editions of the HRI conference, including alternative locations, themes, tracks, and other formats. This exercise will be based on themes constructed from the submissions by the participants themselves. The aim here is not to propose a fixed future but to experiment with speculative genres of research practice, new modes of knowledge production, and community-building that might sustain us differently in the present. Finally, they should propose an opening speech for HRI indicating these changes.
18:00 - 18:20
Each group will hold their speech to the big group.
18:20 - 18:30
Reflections in plenum