[Commlist] Design and Fan Studies Symposium

We would like to invite you to an event taking place at Lancaster, UK, 
on 1st March 2024 (Friday) hosted by our Fan Studies Lancaster research 
network at Lancaster University, in association with the Festival of 
Futures at Imagination Lancaster, the design and architecture research lab.

Fan studies and design are both relatively young disciplines, and ones 
which are familiar with interdisciplinarity, and with co-production and 
participation. Many fans take part in activities which might be 
considered design; from production of creative outputs such as fanvids 
and fanart, to community-led projects for activism, and creating 
platforms such as Archive of Our Own.

The purpose of this symposium is to bring together fan studies scholars 
and design researchers to discuss where new exciting research may emerge 
at the intersection of these two areas. We invite those who work in fan 
studies, and those who work in design research, or those who are already 
working between these areas. This joint expertise is not required, only 
a curiosity about one or both areas.

This event will be a free-to-attend one-day symposium, with discussion 
panels in the morning and a zine-making workshop in the afternoon where 
we invite participants to share and co-create research ideas, and 
present them in the form of zines. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please register at: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fan-studies-and-design-symposium-tickets-780627396557 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fan-studies-and-design-symposium-tickets-780627396557>

Symposium Programme

9:00 Arrival and coffee

9:30 Welcome

9:45 – 10:45 Keynote: Dr Bethan Jones

10:45 – 11:45 Panel Discussion: Digital contexts (Speakers: Naomi 
Jacobs, Suzanne Black, Violet Owens, Chris Elsden)

11:45 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00-13:00 Panel Discussion: Material contexts (Speaker: Sejal 
Changede, Sabina Fazli, Matt Hills, Eva Cheuk-Yin Li)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 17:00 Zine-making workshop

Information on the Festival of Futures is available here: 
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fof2024/ <https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fof2024/>

Information on Fan Studies Lancaster is available here: 
https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/fanstudies/ <https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/fanstudies/>


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