Celebrating Time Guidelines for submitting proposals

Copenhagen, Denmark - 15-19 August, 2016

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ContributionsDo you have an exciting new breakthrough that you would like to share on an

international platform? It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 3rd International Conference on Time Perspective!

In addition to the key-note presentations, the conference will host a number of parallel sessions in variety of formats. Thus we invite submissions on topics that touch upon the exploration the concept of time and time perspective.

As a reference point we include the following key-word cloud:

time, temporality, time perspective (past, present, future, balanced, unbalanced, etc), temporal horizon, past, present, future, life-space, time zone, temporal frame, image of the future, future scenarios, planning (organizational, career, etc.), time management, sense of time, understanding of time, tempo, rhythm, time perception, time attitude, future anxiety, transcendental future, eudaimonic present, presence, sustaining time, experience of time, innovation, well-being, etc.

However, your submissions should not be limited to them. We include those as a starting point.

We welcome contributions in a variety of formats:

• Idea Labs, • workshops, • art installation (music, sculptures, visual arts, performances), • movie screening with a follow-up debate, • work / project groups, • presentations, • discussion tables / brainstorm groups, • debates (can be in the tag team format / polarized opinions format / etc. ), • live research experiments, and others.

Your submissions should be in line with the overall vision and goals for the Conference:

We would like it to be fun, engaging, interactive, cross-disciplinary and frame shifting event. We think that the time has come to reinvent the format of the conferences.

We would like it to be a forum, where researchers / academics, entrepreneurs, business people, policy makers and general public meet. We would like it to be a platform where people could put together their competencies and work on finding a solution for a particular problem together. We would like to start a dialogue on different levels.

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The Conference aims to:

• create dialogue across the disciplines and approaches to time and temporality • create a space / platform where academia, innovators, entrepreneurs, policy

makers, business people and general public meet • create inspiring environment where different real-life challenges can find their

solutions • apply time perspective theory to solving real-life problems • try out different forms of presentations: more engaging, fun, inspiring beyond the

content, aimed to be with and for society • live up to our motto: “Diversity of Approaches, Unity of Passion” – to think and act

across the disciplines

The organizing committee will mainly concentrate on curating three directions of the Conference: innovation, sustainability and well-being. Feel free to propose activities in other directions!

Selected papers will be given a possibility to be considered for publication in Time & Society.

Our selection criteria

The main criteria in selecting your contribution is that it:

• is well aligned with the vision, aims and goals of the event • is academically sound – there is past to it • is methodologically correct – it shows the adequate choice of tools, methodology,

strategy to execute it in the present moment • should be useful – for whom are you doing this? Who is your audience? Who can

use your project results and how? How are you going to notify your aimed at audience about what are you doing before, during and after?

• has a future – it has a longer lifespan, it should continue in one form or the other beyond the event.

Where to submithttps://www.eventora.com/en/Events/3IntCTP/Submissions/Create?

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What to submit1. Title: 2. People involved: 3. Summary (max 1 page), covering the following: How your proposal is aligned with the main vision, goals and aims of the event?

• which aspects of concept of time your symposium highlights and how? • how it is cross-disciplinary or cross-media? • which methods of presentation you will use that are accessible to a non-specialist in

the area?

2. Purpose / problem (why it is important?): • What is the intent of your submission? Which problem is can solve / helps to solve? • Why what you plan to present is important? • Why are you doing this project? What caused you to decide to make this research / art

installation / …? How does the current situation look like? What would you like to change in it?

3. Your target audience: For whom are you organizing this? Who is the target audience? Who will benefit from the

outcomes? Who do you expect to see there and why?

Please keep in mind, that we aim to have very diverse crowd at our event – the more diverse audience you have in mind, it will be easier for us to select you proposal!

4. Your strategy: How are we doing this? What is our strategy?

5. Goals of the submission / success criteria: What do we want to achieve during the presentation? What are specific goals for it?

What do we need to achieve in order for our contribution to be successful? How can the success criteria be measured?

4. Submission statement This statement pinpoints the summary: In order to … (overall vision of your submission), our presentation / idea lab / art

installation / etc. will solve … (target audience) problem of … (purpose / problem) by giving them … (strategy). We will know if our presentation etc. is a success, when we see … (goals).

5. Desired format / materials needed Based on all of the above, we hope to see some innovative proposals on how you would

like your contribution to happen. Include what accessories you will need (projector, paper, scissors, yoga mats, post-its, guitars, old journals to make collages, etc.) – let your fantasy go wild and we’ll see what we can do to provide all (or most) of it!

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Idea LabsIdea Labs are creative sessions on specific challenges aiming at generating new ideas,

solutions and prototypes.

You are facing a challenge related to time or to users psychology ? You are looking for new ways for user-centered innovation ? You want to think out of the box about real and concrete problems ? You can propose a challenge, define the expertise you think you need, and a Idea Lab will be organized with experts and non-experts participants, to explore situation and knowledge, generate ideas and aims and build prototypes. This will help you to reframe your vision, to discover new perspectives and to collect disrupting new user-centered solutions. For scientists and others, it is a great opportunity to share visions and ideas on real-life issues, to apply abstract knowledge and to meet people in a focused group, really working together for a few hours ! For everyone, it is a chance to see ideas becoming real and to find partners for innovation, implementation and evaluation in the long term.

Examples:

How can we improve adherence in chronic illness ? How can we lead people to use public transport and car sharing ? How can we make public spaces more inclusive for deprived people ?

Some Labs will be dedicated specifically to time, to explore how time can be used as a mean to design or redesign services, objects, digital contents, spaces and places. Proposals from health sector, architects, policy makers or environmental actors will be of great interest.

Examples:

How can we imagine the future of calendars ? How can we redesign products to inspire past, present or future orientation ? How can we help people to manage their online identity by balancing past, present

and future?

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WorkshopsThese are hands on demonstrations aimed at developing professional skills &

competencies or to inspire. Please also state in your submission what is the optimal number of people who can participate in your workshop.

PresentationsClassical academic style oral presentations, which usually last for 10-15 minutes. Please

consider submitting a poster / video poster if your main aim is to present a highly technical oral communication (for example, if you are a psychologist and were working on scale development - all the EFA, CFA and such results please submit as a poster; as an oral presentation we would like to see how and where this scale can possibly be applied, how this scale can engage engineers, for example, or used in other disciplines, who can benefit from applying the results of your hard work that you’ve put in into developing the scale, give us some guidelines and directions of possible use, where your results can live and blossom!).

Video postersWe all experience this. You spent a lot of time and effort in doing your research, creating

charts and figures, writing your text as concise as possible. Have a wonderful looking poster made and then the organization of the conference stows the posters presentation away in the darkest basement they can find. Where only the bravest of the visitors dare to go.

We do it differently! We present your poster all around the conference. Because we ehh.. well.. don’t want them to be posters. We ask you to present your poster as a short movie. Using Powerpoint, or whatever other program you want to use. Use sheets, pictures, sound, video, animations. Record your own little TED talk and we will create loops of all the movies in categories. So people can watch the presentations about the areas they are interested in. Like:

TP in organizational settings TP in health and clinical settings TP fundamental research other ideas and applications of time and temporality

Of course there are a few rules. The most important one is: the video can last 5 minutes maximum. And of course we will scan them for subliminal messages. For more information about how to create videos and our preferred setting, look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MperTlQymic

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Work / project groups

You started a project, but your team is located in different places all over the world? So you would really appreciate time and space to get together and discuss the practicalities of your project and move it forward finally? Then this form of activity is for you – it is an opportunity to get together with the people you know already and maybe get some new people on board, present the current status of the project, decide what are the next steps will be and who is doing what and when.

A: already existing project

What to submit:

• short project description (include a link to any info about it online) • who are already in it and who from the team is coming to Copenhagen • what’s the stage / status of the project • what are you planning to do discuss during your meeting, are you open to new

people to join the project, what type of competencies are your looking for from people who can join you

B: project idea

What to submit:

• short description of the project you have in mind • for whom it might be of interest? • why it is important? • who are you looking for to join your project? • how long do you think your project can last?

Prepare a max. 3 minutes pitch of your project idea for the pitching session on the first day of the conference.

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DebatesYou are working on some issue which doesn’t have a single interpretation in your field of

science? Or maybe you are a politician or a businessman who has a clear position in what to count for as the main aspect of application of our knowledge about Time? Then you may be interested in debating with a person with a totally different position in your issue. There will be one or two types of debates presented at the conference which will be specified as far as we get the ideas of the participants and choose the most exciting ones.

What to submit:

A short description of your field of interest and your understanding of why it is debatable. The question chosen should be broad (like the question of preferable unity of plurality in psychology, the best practical application of the theory of TP, etc.). You should stress what is your understanding of the question and what is, in your vision, the opposite one.

The main statements which support your position (10-15). If you give citations please make a short bibliography. The debate definitely needs at least the second side:) This means that it is not

obvious the debate will take place. In this regard we strongly advise you to submit for a debate as well as for another form of presentation.

First type

1-st round. 2 speakers shortly present 2 totally different points of view on one topic. The audience is divided into 3 groups: one part supports the first statement, the second part is for the opposite one. There is also the third group who (still) don’t have a clear position regarding this topic.

2-nd round. The speakers give the arguments supporting their position. There is a live discussion between them. While the speakers are “fighting”, the listeners can change places in the audience by sitting on a chair in a different supporting group if they are convinced or re-convinced by any speaker.

3-d round. The most active listeners ask questions to the speakers. The places can still be changed.

4-d round. The speakers sum up the results of the debates. Maybe they have also changed their opinion:)

Second type

1-st round. The participants are suggested a topic and the possible opposite points of view regarding it. After that the participants form two teams concerning two oppositions.

2-nd round. Participant from two teams take turns in the discussion. Each participant has a minute to explain his or her position.

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3-d round. Each team during 2 minutes thinks out three questions to the opposite team. They take turns in asking them. There is a minute for discussion and a minute for the representative of the team to give an answer.

4-d round. The speakers sum up the results of the debates. Maybe the have also changed their opinion:)

Discussion tables / brainstorm groups

Have you been working on a particular issue for a long time and you’re feeling like you’re completely stuck with it? Need someone to just talk about it, express your ideas and frustration of not finding a solution? Then this form of activity is for you – you define the format that would work best for you: do you want your audience to be critical or supportive? What type of feedback are you looking for? How many people would be optimal for you to reflect on the issue with?

Art installation

Are you a painter, photographer, sculpturist, dancer, musician, poet, media-artist, performance artist or cross-media artist and does time play an important role in your work? Are you looking for challenging and innovative ways to exchange perspectives with people from other fields such as academic psychology, physics and philosophy aiming at transcending existing mental horizons?

And would you like to join a multi-disciplinary discourse on the extremely multi-faceted theme of time? Inspire others to leave their comfort zone? Get inspired by others to leave your own comfort zone?

Would you like to become part of a cross-media concept exhibition on the subject of time and temporality that will be located at the same venue as the scientific conference part of this one of a kind event which is devoted to promoting the dialogue between traditionally distinct fields? Or do a performance within this framework?

Then we would like to invite you to submit an application that includes:

– a short description of your work and how it relates to the concept of time – a short biography and description of your prior works – relevant links (personal website; documentation of your submitted work etc.)

Your artwork may tackle one of the following (or other) aspects of time:

temporality of existence, sense of time, (sense of) impermanence, (sense of) eternity, understanding of time, tempo, rhythm, temporal horizon, time perception, (perception of the) past, (perception of the) present, (perception of the) future, image of the future, future

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scenarios, time attitude, time and the arts, time in everyday life, time and consciousness, social time, subjective time, objective time, time within human reality, time beyond human reality…

What we can offer you:

-visibility of your work within the scope of an event that will be visited by a colourful selection of people such as entrepreneurs, other artists working with the concept of time as well as academic psychologists from more than 40 countries

-access to several events of the scientific program such as lectures from some of the world’s leading psychologists working on time and temporality

-an unforgettable experience

Live research experiments

Would you like to replicate a famous experiment, like marshmallow study? Or you have been struggling long time with designing an experimental intervention and needed a live test for it? Submit your ideas and let’s see what we can do about it!

What to submit:

• idea of the experiment • who are desired participants and how many do you need • brief description of what is planned to happen during the experiment • your hypotheses • don’t forget to follow the ethics code! • what type of feedback are you looking for with it – what are the desired outcomes,

what you would like to achieve with it

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