Format: 90mins interactive session involving a team of 3-5 participants, including a nominated leader, focused on a particular issue, problem or practice arising from researching or teaching media industries. Unlike the conventional speakers/audience structure of panels, the workshop team should place emphasis on energising creative interactions between all attendees. Workshop proposals should be designed in a manner that assumes the team will only speak for no more than 30 minutes in total, with the remainder of the time devoted to interaction with the attendees. Besides offering a rationale the issues they plan to address, proposals should also include a description of the activity the team plans to organize. This format is highly flexible to allow workshop leaders to adapt the 90mins according to the activities and discussions involved. The exact nature of the activities is up to the workshop team, but possible ideas include:
· group brainstorming activities.
· collection of anonymous questions from attendees that are responded to by the team.
· short creative activities that can completed on attendees’ mobile devices.
· surveys and questionnaires that can be completely quickly and discussed in the session.
Proposals for workshops will be evaluated based equally on the issues they address as well as the creativity and potential for dynamic interaction seen in the proposal.