Tuesday, Jun 30

HUPR KEYNOTE: 6th International Conference of Possibility Studies

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University of Sussex, England

Waves of Possibility

Our colleagues at HUPR will be presenting the keynote at the 6th International Conference of Possibility Studies, which will be held June 30 – July 2 in Brighton, England.

The conference will bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners from around the world and from across disciplines with interests in the diverse methods associated with understanding, studying, and fostering the possible within minds, environments, communities, and cultures.

Organized by the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, with the support of the DCU Centre for Possibility Studies at Dublin City University.

HUPR’s keynote is intended to feel less like a conventional presentation and more like a living laboratory of possibility.

This keynote builds on the workshops that HUPR facilitated last July 2025 and continues the collective inquiry into possibility spaces – how they emerge, how they are sensed, and how they are sustained.

Last year saw the exploration of conferences and conference materials as sites of research and possibility spaces in their own right. In this next iteration, HUPR is looking to deepen that exploration: What happens when we approach the format, the gathering, the exchanges, and even the artefacts of a conference as active fields of embodied knowledge production? How might artistic and relational practices shape not only what we know, but how we come to know, through the body, through interaction, through shared attention?

Rather than a single-voice address, HUPR is developing a shared and participatory format: a keynote-in-plural. Guided by HUPR’s team and fueled by people in the room, the session will centre on collective knowledge, embodied thinking, and relational intelligence.

More information here.