Held at The Craft Laboratory, Mariestad, Sweden and online

Registration closes 22nd September 2025.

BICCS 2025 aims to expose the breadth of topics, source material, methods, perspectives, and results that reside in transverse fields of craft research. The conference provides a platform for communicating craft research beyond the borders of faculties and disciplines. Through the collaboration with the Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities (GRIDH), the conference provides multimodal communication to better elicit the performative and material nature of craft research. The Craft Laboratory's film team helps craft researchers to document exhibitions and performances presented on site.

The full program will be announced in September, but the confirmed keynote speakers include, Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Professor of Art History & Material Culture at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands), Trevor Marchand (Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS), and Marie Ekstedt Bjersing (Lecturer in Textile Technology at The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås).

Head to the website to find out more and to register your attendance (in person or online)