Immersive Acts: Disrupting the Frame by Otherwise Narratives (Royal College of Art)
How can immersive experiences and technologies support communities to develop shared practices and shape more just and equitable worlds?
Immersive Acts: Disrupting the Frame by Otherwise Narratives invites contributions that investigate how diverse perspectives and intelligences can be combined with immersive experiences to positively reframe responses to planetary and societal concerns.
Welcoming transdisciplinary and pluralistic forms of enquiry, the symposium will explore how immersive methods, technologies and engagements can be used to address urgent contexts and support equitable and sustainable engagement through creative and critical practice. Contributions that foreground accessible, collective and radically inclusive approaches are particularly encouraged, with an emphasis on those that otherwise query the conceptualisation, perception, terms, modes and impact of immersive experiences.
Call for submissions
We invite proposals for presentations, prototypes, demos, installations, performances, workshops, screenings and other relevant formats in relation to three key themes:
- More-Than-Human Realities
- Sustainable and Justice-Led Immersive Responses to Crisis and Emergency
- Immersive Innovation Design: Bodies, Sensors, and New Narratives
The deadline for submissions is Monday 8 December, 12 noon GMT. Selected participants will be notified by the end of January 2026.