Sophie Hope and Elaine Speight (University of London) – Critical Friends Out on a Limb? Performing Connected Communities through Socially Engaged Art

Sharon Bailey (ISIS Arts, Newcastle) – ‘Homelands’. How ISIS Arts Uses Visual and Media Arts Projects to Connect Artists and Communities

Adam Hasler, Kawandeep Virdee and Benjamin Sugar (Dorkbot Boston) – The Community Stack: Design Principles for a Community Centered Solution Stack

Julien Dorra (OrsayCommons, Paris) – OrsayCommons, Building a Micro-Community of Museum Hackers

Karen Martin and Kristina Glushkova (Makerhood, London) – Makerhood: Local Making Meets the We

Wafa Bourkhis (Universities of Tunis and Artois) – Connected Communities in Virtual Worlds in the Arab World and the Impact of Arab Cyber-Revolutions on Arts and Cyber-Arts >>

Yves Bernard (iMAL, Dorkbot Brussels) – Fostering New Creative Communities

David Littler and Berit Greinke (Queens Mary University, London) – The Paper Orchestra and Sampler-Cultureclash

Simon Biggs (Edinburgh College of Arts) – Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice

Joanna Berry (Newcastle University), Rachel Ratner (KEXP, Seattle) – Seattle Band Map: Mapping the Evolution of Seattle’s Artistic Relationships

Régis Lemberthe (Enable Berlin) – Enabling Citizens

Panayiota Tsatsou (Swansea University) – ICTs and Connectivity in Minority Communities in Wales

Pamela McLean (Dadamac, UK/Africa) – Dadamac’s Connected Communities: Fun We’ve Had and Lessons We’ve Learned

Olle Bjerkås (Co-Lab, Göteborg) – Co-Created Creative Expression

Lien Tran (Parsons New School of Design, NYC) – Seeds to Soil

Toby Lowe (Helixarts, Newcastle) – Digital Narratives and Communities

Helen Pritchard (Lancaster University / University of Plymouth) – Ingredients of Social Exchange

Hannah Goraya and Ann Light (Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield) – Digital Inclusion as Social Connection – a Socio-Political Analysis of the Role of Local Online Centres

Giovanni Innella (Northumbria University, Newcastle) – Designing for Mars

Gabriel Menotti (Cine Falcatrua, London) – Cinematographic Circuit Bending: the Cine Falcatrua Collective, a Grassroots Film Society Between Pirate Media and the Institutions of Art

François Naudé (alt.sense, Cape Town) – Goodbye People. Hello Profile.

Alex Henry (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums) – Culture Shock

Budi Arief, David Greathead, Chris Smith, Aad van Moorsel, Lynne Coventry, Phil Butler (Newcastle University / Northumbria University) – NEWS: Inclusive Technology’s Impact on Society through Neighbourhood Watch Scheme

Elizabeth Skadden (Berlin) – The Role of the Cassette Tape in Connecting Musical Micro-Communities of the Former East Germany

Andrew Wilson (Thumbprint Co-operative, London) – I Heart Texting

Amanda Williams (Wyld Collective, Montréal) – Local Community, Global Hub: Organizational Tactics of a Slum