As part of Digital Society @Manchester Met​, the Manchester Writing School would like to invite you for a day of exploring  'immersion'; a term now ubiquitous in literature, film and XR. 

Rather than pre-defining immersion, on Friday 24th June, we invite you as multidisciplinary participants, to prepare a short (2-3 min) response to the provocation 'Can immersion be measured? If so, how?’  These presentations can be oral/visual/audio. The form and format is up to you. Starting at 10 am, we imagine the day with run until approximately 5 pm with a break for lunch.​

From our disparate disciplines, we want to see a shareable language emerging that will help us to speak theoretically/philosophically about the concept of immersion (the afternoon will be spent in groups, modelling machines to measure immersion — including cardboard and Lego!)

We hope that giving time to think about the 'experience of' and 'knowledge about' immersion will be a way to integrate digital arts, humanities and social sciences as well as helping individual practitioners and clusters to define and hone research questions.

We expect a group of 20-30 participants and we plan to go out together after the day's events.

Please RSVP to Dr Rachel Genn (r.genn@mmu.ac.uk) if you are interested in attending and/or presenting.

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