FeME is excited to launch the Call for Proposals for No Boundaries, one-day conference and festival exploring transdisciplinary practice and collaboration, organised by the FeME Network (Failure Modes of Engineering) in collaboration with the DiveIn Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT). The conference will be held on Tuesday 26th May 2026 at the Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow.
Engineering, as traditionally practised, has brought us remarkable innovations; but it is increasingly clear that conventional approaches alone cannot address the intertwined crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequity. No Boundaries takes this reality as a starting point: we aim to foreground work that transcends disciplinary silos, invites creative methods, and builds bridges between researchers, practitioners, artists, educators, and community partners working with global challenges.
The programme will consist of a series of forty-five-minute sessions, including practice-based workshops, lightning talks, case studies, demonstrations, and performances with an aim to explore transdisciplinary practice and collaboration among varied disciplines and communities.
We welcome proposals from diverse audiences and methodologies: researchers, practitioners, artists, educators, and community partners who are engaged with global challenges and are interested in sharing their approaches to transdisciplinary collaboration.
We look forward to receiving your proposal via the online form before the deadline of Monday 2nd March 2026.