[Commlist] EOI – MyWorld Multisensory Storytelling Summit

Multisensory Storytelling Summit – 29th May 2025, The Sheds, 65 Avon St, 
Bristol

EOI – Deadline – 28th February 2025 – Submit via email: 
(tom.livingstone /at/ uwe.ac.uk)

Inviting EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST for participation in MyWorld’s 
Multisensory Storytelling Summit, a key event in the programme of 
research being carried out by UWE’s Professor Mandy Rose and Dr Tom 
Livingstone into the evolution of storytelling in an era of multi-modal 
technologies.
With a focus on the paradigm shifting potential of digital technology’s 
address of multiple sensory modalities, MyWorld’s research in this area 
seeks to map the impact this technological shift is having on narrative 
forms and the role new story formats have in contemporary culture.
A lot is at stake. We need stories commensurate to the times that we 
live in, in formats that work against the routinization of our 
attention. Where are they? How do they operate? What worlds might they 
describe? What futures might they make possible? What new forms of 
knowledge do they enable? And what form of criticism do they require?

This event will be a high-level networking and knowledge exchange event, 
centred on key innovations in multisensory storytelling practice and the 
implications this paradigm shift has for access and inclusion within the 
sector.
We aim to: showcase innovative work, surface new research and industry 
needs, foster the emergence of new collaborations and bring MyWorld’s 
industry-academic network into dialogue with the broad 
inter-disciplinary field of research and activity engaging with the 
past, present and future multisensory storytelling.
EOI’s (250 words + short bio) are therefore sought for:
-	Provocations: short-form presentation (PechaKucha / 5-min FlashTalks) 
that triangulate the techniques and technologies from multiple angles, 
interdisciplinary perspectives particularly welcome.
-	Experimental Demonstrations: Either of stories told through the 
senses, or of multisensory devices with un-tapped narrative utility.

-	Speculations: short-form presentation (PechaKucha / 5-min FlashTalks) 
that consider the near and far futures of Multisensory Storytelling, 
from both technical and cultural perspectives.
		
From:
-	Practitioners/Creatives working with multi-modal, multisensory or 
immersive technologies within the creative industries.
-	Technologists/developers/researchers engaged with multi-modal HCI and 
interested in exploring its narrative applications.
-	Academics/Researchers working in/with emerging media formats and/or 
exploring multisensory storytelling across humanities disciplines.

Please contact Dr Tom Livingstone: (tom.livingstone /at/ uwe.ac.uk) for any 
further information.

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