[call for submissions] The Not-So-Secret Workshop: Role-playing Control in Co-creative System Design at ICCC'26

[Alayt]

Hello everyone,  

The Not-So-Secret workshop, role-playing control into the co-creative system design, is now open and accepting submissions! For those who attended ICCC 2025 in Brazil, you might remember our secret workshop 😊  

Workshop Description

This full-day workshop invites participants to role-play their (not-so-secret) control struggles with co-creative systems. As a workshop comprising role-playing, co-creativity, and game design, participants will have the opportunity to role-play scenes facilitated through a custom card game titled Flip-Your-Secret 🃏. After the session and ample time to incubate, participants will then be invited to create low-fidelity prototypes that showcase how their interactions are woven into the design of co-creative systems. The workshop is focused on translating scientific work from the ICCC community into public discourse.

Details:

📅 Workshop Date: Day 1 of ICCC (most likely the 29th of June)
📍 Location: Coimbra, Portugal (in-person only, we need bodies to role-play)
📌 Focus: The human values, specifically control, embedded in co-creativity
📩 Submission: 1-page document detailing your biography, experience using or designing co-creative systems, and synthesis on control distribution in co-creative systems.

• 📝 Note about submissions: If you are an artist, co-creative system designer, or co-creativity researcher interested in interactive, embodied, and collaborative approaches to designing human values in co-creative systems, we highly encourage you to apply! While the submission will help us curate the participants for the workshop, no formal workshop proceedings will be published. Moreover, the workshop is capped at 15 participants. 

🌐 Website and submission portal: https://secretworkshop.sites.northeastern.edu/ 

📅 Important dates:

• Submission deadline: 30 April 2026 (AOE)
• Acceptance notifications: 31 May 2026

For any questions, please feel free to email us at issak.a[at]northeastern[dot]edu  

Cheers,

The Not-So-Secret Team