Imagination as a site of struggle

MAKE/SENSE and MESH Festival are seeking contributions of practice-based research writing that depart from the conviction that raising awareness alone will not shift us and that facts alone will not change us. We need ways of writing that help us take the personal seriously and connect it to public commitments. Asking this of our readers, our writing, too, needs to go to vulnerable spaces. Weaving together creative modes of critical knowledge production and engagement “to look at what’s plaguing us, using all the tools at our disposal,” as Ruha Benjamin points out.

We seek proposals for 10 min presentations using poetry, playwriting, science fiction, storytelling, grey literature, (technical) reports, briefs, sketchbooks, blog posts, manuals, and manifestos.

The workshop will result in a journal issue reflecting what we write and how we write about it.

The workshop will be public and take place as an in-person event during the festival on Friday, October 18th from 9.30 to 14.30.

More details on the workshop are now online in the Mesh programme: https://meshfestival.ch/events/imagination-as-a-site-of-struggle/en

Within this timeframe we are planning for ca. 5 presentations of 10 minutes each. Each presentation will have a respondent who will kick off the 20-min discussion. Among the respondents are: Helen V. Pritchard, Shaka McGlotten, Ines Kleesattel and Lucie Kolb.

We provide a fee of 250 CHF for participation in the PhD workshop and can cover additional travel/accommodation costs of up to 250 CHF. The entry to the festival is included with this opportunity.