Theme: Adapt | abilities: Re-envisioning the inherent creativity and beautiful endurance of Interactive Digital Storytelling.
In the spirit of the multicultural diversity and the rich, vibrant, and ever-changing “flux” and flexible site of Thailand, our host for ICIDS 2026, the theme for this year’s conference is “adapt/abilities”. To be adaptable is to be inherently willing to change, to modify, and to acclimate to fluid conditions–that is, conditions of selfhood, nationalities, politics, borders, cultures, natures, rituals, tools, and more.
Adaptability is the powerful art of survival in ever-changing world conditions and their attendant micro and macro ecosystems. But the ability to adapt can also be a subtle and secretive form of defense and/as offense, a way to artfully, gracefully manage and mitigate oppressive counterforces and threats while maintaining novel and innovative identities and states of being. The varied forms of adapt/abilities, then, can be a range of systems and modes to support beautiful endurance and to move progressively, powerfully, forward in a world of multiplicitous flux and innovation.