Call For Proposals

MODE 2027

10-12 June 2027

National University of Singapore

MODE 2027 invites educators, researchers, and practitioners to gather
in Singapore for BREAKOUT

Breakout as emergence
Breakout as rupture
Breakout as acceleration
Breakout as an escape
Breakout as flight

In motion design education, breakout marks the shift from tools to language, from assignments to inquiries, from isolated exercises to systems and broad thinking. It is what happens when a student discovers authorship, coherence across time, when motion becomes feedback and iterative inquiry. When curriculum resists inherited hierarchies. When research moves beyond documentation into intervention. When classrooms exceed the screen and spill into space, interaction, culture, and code.

Singapore is a large city-state with a population over 6 million people. It is a nexus of technology, design, and culture, providing a wonderful backdrop for our first MODE Summit in Asia, as we breakout of our normal summit routine. We invite proposals that engage breakout in its many dimensions:

Breaking out of software-centered pedagogy
Breaking out of gatekeeping structures in foundation education
Breaking out through AI, real-time systems, and emerging technologies
Breaking out into spatial, immersive, and interactive contexts
Breaking out of Western-centric design narratives
Breaking out as equity infrastructure and inclusive curriculum design
Breaking out of static assessment models
Breaking out of disciplinary isolation through collaboration

Breakout is not simply disruption for spectacle.

It is structural transformation!

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Submission Categories

We welcome proposals in the following formats:

Long Paper Presentations: Peer-reviewed research papers (20 minutes + discussion)
Short Paper Presentations: These are 10–12 minutes long and serve new, developing projects best. These might be practice-based research, studio experiments, curricular redesigns, and process-driven inquiry
Workshops: Hands-on sessions offering transferable frameworks and teaching tools with time to make and create! Participants will roll up their sleeves and be busy. (90 minutes)
Round Table Discussions: Collaborative dialogues on shared institutional or disciplinary challenges
Lightning Talks: 5–7 minute provocations. Focused. Urgent. Generative.
Research Poster: Frames a developing motion design project as research in action. It treats motion not simply as outcome, but as method, examining how time, pacing, sequencing, and visual language shape meaning and audience engagement. Research parameters and design artifacts are presented together, making the inquiry visible.

Proposal Requirements

All submissions must include the following details:

Title (max 15 words)
Abstract (500 words for papers; 400 for workshops, round table discussions and lightning talks)
3 to 5 keywords
Author Short bio (150 words)
Institutional or professional affiliation(s)
Supporting visuals or hyperlinks
Submission Category

All proposals will undergo a blind peer review process.

Submission Guidelines

Full submission guidelines and registration details will be announced in July 2026.

Break out of the frame
Break out of the familiar
Break open what motion education can become

Who Should Submit?

MODE welcomes motion design educators, researchers, graduate and doctoral candidates, and industry professionals engaged in education and independent scholars whose work pushes the field outward.

If your teaching reconfigures systems.
If your research redefines frameworks.
If your practice reframes motion design in new and innovative ways.

Important Dates

Call for Proposals Opens: August 1, 2026
Submission Deadline: October 2026
Notification of Acceptance: December 2026
Conference: 10th-12th June 2027