2024 – Improvising Futures: Full Team Meeting
Improvising Futures
Full Team Meeting
September 10, 2024
9:00 AM–5:00 PM
@ImprovLab (Hybrid Event)
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ABOUT Improvising Futures (2022–2027):
Improvising Futures (IF) is a 5-year SSHRC-Funded Partnership Grant (2022-2027), housed at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) at the University of Guelph. This ambitious initiative examines how improvisational practices can improve our social, environmental, cultural, and spiritual well-being, building on the foundation of previous IICSI projects, including the ICASP project (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice, 2007-2012) and a decade-long partnership grant (2012-2022), that led to the establishment of the Institute.
IF sees the consolidation and expansion of our large-scale partnership-based vision, which now includes 70+ researchers, and an equal number of community partners, engaged in projects that span 20+ cities and 10+ countries. The cutting-edge, scholarly, and arts-based community-focused practices that are emerging from this project centre on improvisation’s resonance beyond the arts, in accordance with our goal to imagine and implement new paradigms for confronting the pressing issues of our time. This work takes places within and across four integrated research streams: 1) Improvisation, Media, and Stories of Change (lead: George Lipsitz); 2) Improvisation, Public Spaces, and the Practice of Everyday Life (lead: Mervyn Horgan); 3) Improvisation, Decolonization, and Making Peace (co-leads: Dustin Brass and Sherry Farrell Racette); and 4) Improvisation, Wellbeing, and the Social Determinants of Health (co-leads: Daniel Weinstock and Rebecca Caines).
Pleased to reach the midpoint of this IF Partnership Grant having met—and in most cases exceeded—the expectations outlined in our milestone report, we are now excited to tackle the work ahead. Let us gather today with energy and anticipation to share our works-in-progress, celebrate our achievements, and uncover new opportunities for collaboration and groundbreaking improvisation research. Let’s make this September 10th a most vibrant day of community building and creative events!
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