Call for Papers Interdisciplinary Conference on Creating Spaces for Digital Futures 09.10.2025 – 10.10.2025 in Bochum, Germany, Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) In an era where digital transformation is reshaping every facet of our lives, the concept of digital spaces opens new frontiers for research. While spaces are understood differently across various disciplines and encompass both material and abstract dimensions, the term is commonly used to describe the interdependencies between individual practices and environments. Thus, individuals are shaped by economic, legal, social, cultural and spatial structures that simultaneously emerge from action (Lefebvre 1991; Löw 2001). Addressing spaces from multiple perspectives considers social and technical affordances and helps to anticipate digital futures. The two-day conference “Creating Spaces for Digital Futures” calls on researchers from various disciplines dealing with research questions related to digital transformation to explore how digital environments can be designed, utilized, and optimized to enhance various aspects of society – now and in the future. The conference will be a space to analyze both macro-level trends and micro-level action, investigating the interdependencies between practices and digital spaces. We will explore perceptions of space and individual agency within digital environments, as well as the creation of new digital spaces in various contexts. We invite scholars to contribute their insights and research presenting theoretical, empirical or visionary positions on how these spaces can be analyzed, perceived and designed. More specifically, this conference will focus on, but is not limited to, three specific types of digital spaces, each with distinctive implications, challenges and opportunities: Public Spaces, Learning Spaces, and Data Spaces. We invite submissions for position papers and theoretical papers, research reports, workshops, and debates. Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2025 For further information, please visit our website (https://www.cais-research.de/creating-spaces-for-digital-futures/) or contact us at submissions@cais-research.de mailto:submissions@cais-research.de. References Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of space. Blackwell. Löw, M. (2001). Raumsoziologie. Suhrkamp.