Thinking Space 1: Unbelonging as Possibility
You are invited to take part in our series of Thinking Spaces on Belonging.
These events are participatory and engaged, a chance to actively share and develop ideas together, and to see where it takes us.
They generate new connections and possibilities by encouraging everyone who attends to bring reflections on how aspects of belonging are relevant to their research, learning, teaching or practice.
Each session has a particular theme and a set of prompts to consider beforehand, and everyone who comes will be invited to share their responses to the prompts and one another. If you would like to take part, please register using the links below.
Unbelonging as Possibility
What possibilities are opened up by paying attention to unbelonging? When people are made to feel that they do not belong, they do not simply disappear. While being excluded can be negative, it can also lead to action, including the creation of new spaces of alternative belonging. You are invited to a conversation about how unbelonging might be a space of possibility. Please bring your reflections on this theme, based on your particular interests, research area, teaching practice, learning or experience.
Before the session, please reflect on the following prompts. Everyone will be asked to join the conversation by sharing reflections on one or two of these ideas, or others that emerge during the session:
- Tell us a bit about the example of unbelonging you want to discuss. Who belonged and who didn’t? What made some people not belong, or feel they did not belong?
- What happened next? Was there creativity, repair, finding of power by the people who were made to not belong?
- How have you made sense of this phenomenon previously? Does the idea of unbelonging as possibility shed new light? If so, how?
This will be an active Thinking Space, so please come ready to share your thoughts-in-process and to learn from and with others.
When: Monday 23 March 2026, 3pm-5pm
Where: Creative Community Place, Floor 2, The Library, University of Warwick
If you have any questions, please contact Hannah Jones on h.jones.1@warwick.ac.uk