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PIRATE DIS 2025
Monday 8th June 8-10pm
The Wee Red Bar
Edinburgh College of Art
Free Entry / Free pizza / Pay bar
Welcome aboard Pirate DRS 2026 – a treasure trove of design research, creative pictorials, and stories that need to be told. While these submissions were rejected for the DRS conference, they represent diverse and valuable perspectives that didn't make it through peer review.
For one night only, we celebrate the work that pushes boundaries, challenges conventions, and opens new perspectives – even when they didn't fit neatly into the DRS conference. Every rejected paper tells a story. Every overlooked pictorial sparks imagination. Every alternative approach plants seeds for future work.
!0 Speakers, 8 mins each, beer and food!
When & Where:
8 - 10pm Monday 8th June
Inside the Edinburgh College of Art quad,
74 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9DF
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MjmXVMcqG58U7Dtf7
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It’ll cost nothing to bag a seat, and the generous folk from the Designing Responsible NLP PhD training programme are providing free pizza but you'll have to buy your own beer / wine grog.
Papers / Pictorials / Demos / Artworks
Attending
When & Where:
8 - 10pm Monday 8th June
Inside the Edinburgh College of Art quad,
74 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9DF
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MjmXVMcqG58U7Dtf7
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It’ll cost nothing to bag a seat, and the generous folk from the Designing Responsible NLP PhD training programme are providing free pizza but you'll have to buy your own beer / wine grog.
Ahoy researchers, designers, and creative rebels!
Join us for an evening of unconventional presentations featuring work that didn't make it into the official DRS conference – but deserves an audience anyway.
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No peer review, no gatekeepers, just a willing audience to listen to ten 8-minute presentations of papers, pictorials, artworks, and experimental ideas that break the rules. Whether the submissions was rejected, too experimental, or simply didn't fit traditional categories, come watch our pirates present.