ICLS Hybrid Symposium | iHY-3_HYBRID-CONF | Hybridity, Equity, and Conference Design: Stakeholder Perspectives & Community Discussion

This hybrid symposium serves as a conversation and data gathering effort in ongoing iterative design of accommodations through hybrid conferencing in the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). We examine recent ISLS conferencing history borrowing the concept of “curb cuts” from disability studies to describe the diffusion of accommodation options. ISLS stakeholder communities (disabled scholars, caregivers, scholars from Majority World, conference organizers), rooted in relevant theory and research, will share perspectives and experiences of accommodation processes and/or the impact of multiple modalities for conference access. We will then engage attendees in discussion breakout groups, facilitated by volunteers across in-person and virtual modalities using Padlet, to generate knowledge and recommendations. We conclude the symposium with a discussion synthesis. The results of this discussion, artifact-generation, and synthesis will inform ongoing iterations of ISLS hybrid designs and conceptualizations of anticipatory design in academic conference spaces, within and beyond ISLS Annual Meetings.