2027 Imagining Sustainable Worlds Online Symposium, 12–13 May 2027

We invite proposals for 2027 Imagining Sustainable Worlds, an annual online symposium in the Common Ground Imagining Futures Series, taking place 12–13 May 2027, online on CGScholar.

The symposium brings together scholars, researchers, designers, planners, educators, policy thinkers, practitioners, health and care professionals, environmental researchers, and community-engaged professionals working across questions of sustainability, climate, infrastructure, food systems, mobility, aging, health, wellbeing, and the built environment. We welcome proposals that explore how sustainable worlds are designed, inhabited, maintained, challenged, and transformed.

For 2027, On Sustainability Research Network serves as the host Network, helping shape the symposium’s emphasis within the wider theme of Imagining Sustainable Worlds.

Hosted by the Common Ground Media Lab @ Research Park at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, the symposium is also part of Common Ground’s ongoing research into the knowledge experience: exploring how online environments can support focused dialogue, continuous exchange, publication pathways, and new forms of scholarly communication.

Symposium Themes
Theme 1: Climate, Ecology, and Environmental Change
Theme 2: Sustainable Design, Space, and the Built Environment
Theme 3: Food, Tourism, Mobility, and Everyday Systems
Theme 4: Health, Aging, Care, and Collective Wellbeing

Learn More: https://onsustainability.com/online-symposium