All sessions will take place on one organizers’ institutional Zoom account, with a dedicated, concurrent Slack channel for all sessions, where participants can interact asynchronously. Recognizing the fatigue which can accompany virtual events, the last two sessions will be optional. We will also survey our participants regarding their preferred time zones to try to optimize for everyone's convenience.
Workshop Schedule: Sunday, May 9 [ALL TIMES IN ET]
Pre-conference:
We will share a google doc where each organizer and each participant will have space to write an introduction and a 2-3 line summary of their paper’s provocation on what they would like the field to do more of or how they see the field or any other discussion item. We will use these to structure the roundtable discussions
11:00:11:05 Zoom introduction where everyone gives their names/pronouns
11:05-12:10 Roundtable Storytelling: Organizers share a 2 minute story which inspires them to think about the themes of this workshop and what’s missing from the field, or, provocations for the field and its future. Followed by 30 minute discussion of what participants would like to get out of this workshop
12:10-12:20 Zoom Video Break [Participants can reflect on roundtable in the Google Doc]
12:20-13:30 Breakout Sessions (3 concurrent rooms): feedback on participant position papers. Each breakout room comes up with 1-2 provocations for where the field can go and put them in the Google Doc. (See below for room and paper assignments.)
13:30-13:55: Roundtable : Field Building Collectively organize the provocations coming out of the storytelling discussion and breakout room sessions which give us a direction for where the field can go in terms of methods, theory or design
13:55-14:30 Break
14:30-15:30 Round table : Field building [cont’d] : Continue discussion on the provocations for where we can go from here
15:30-15:40 Zoom Video Break [Participants encouraged to add to Google Doc ideas for output from the workshop]
15:40-16:00: Output: Discussion on what’s next
POST-WORKSHOP PLANS
Sustained coordination and community-building are central goals of this workshop, in particular because we anticipate participants will hail from different disciplinary homes. We will create either a specialized mailing list or Slack group to keep participants in communication with each other and to facilitate a concrete output from this workshop. Some of these outputs will be intangible, including a reading list and cohesive working group to foster continued collaboration.
Tangible outputs will include either an edited volume or anthology from a university press, or a special issue of a relevant journal, a compilation of theoretical, methodological and design-focused recommendations, or some combination of these outputs.
