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This online event, running from May 12th to May 16th, will feature streamed keynote talks from leading academics and creative industry professionals at the start of the week. The student segment will be broadcast live from UWTSD’s state of-the-art immersive room, providing an engaging experience for both in-person and
remote attendees.

Recognising the conference’s international scope, talks will be bilingual (English &
Mandarin), fostering dynamic discourse and creative collaboration in the fields of art and design.

Organised by the Professional Doctorate in Art & Design and MA Art & Design programmes at UWTSD, Residuum 2025 aims to challenge conventional paradigms, foster meaningful dialogue, and explore cutting-edge advancements. The conference will feature a diverse range of thought-provoking themes, including:

• Nostalgia: Lost Past or Lost Future
• Immersive Imaginations
• AI: Revolution and Future Perspectives
• Understanding Heritage as a Symbol of the Future
• Communications in a Contemporary World
• Innovative Methodologies
• Defining Your Practice as Leading Change
• The Future of Chinese Creative Industries

The ‘Residuum’ conference is expected to draw participants from academic institutions, research organisations, industry professionals, and creative enthusiasts.  Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with leading experts in their fields, gain insights from ground-breaking research, and contribute to the ongoing discourse on art, design, and culture.

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We’re delighted to announce our two keynote speakers for the opening morning of the 2025 Residuum International Conference, streaming live on Monday 12th May.

Doris C. Rusch

Doris C. Rusch Is a game designer, researcher, and play aficionado, who wears many hats. One of them is the red top hat her husband gave her when she ‎became a professor at Uppsala University. It’s heavy and sits on a shelf in her office. As founder ‎and custodian of the Magic Circle Hut, she wears a hat of thunder, lightning, sky and stardust. It is a ‎big hat, encompassing somatic coaching/physical training, play research, storytelling and system ‎design to create customized, transformative experiences for people and organizations. 

And then, ‎there’s the witch’s hat. The hat of hats. Invisible, but always there, lending magic to the other hats.‎

Talk:

“The Witch’s Way” and how that connects to the role of interactive narrative / digital storytelling, sustainability and writing from place and body. It’s a very different kind of talk bringing connections from neuroscience, inter-personal neurobiology, somatics and quantum social change. 

Dr. Penny Hay

Dr. Penny Hay is an artist, educator and researcher, Professor of Imagination Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries, Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning, Bath Spa University and Founding Director House of Imagination.  Signature projects include School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination. Penny’s doctoral research focused on children’s learning identity as artists.

Penny is strand leader for Creative Pedagogy in the Policy, Pedagogy and Practice Research Centre, and co-chair of the eARTh research group focusing on education, arts and the environment. Penny was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Arts University Plymouth and a Fellowship in Imagination at the Centre for Future Thinking; she is a National Teaching Fellow and Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching.

Talk:

Exploring the nature of encounter in immersive contexts in education.