2027 Emerging Creatives Student Summit
It is a three-day interdisciplinary event hosted by the University of Maryland in March 2027, centered on the theme “Power.” Students collaborate across disciplines to explore the theme and create projects such as podcasts, apps, performances, or designs. The summit also offers hands-on experiences, expert discussions, workshops, and opportunities to develop collaboration and presentation skills.
a2ru is delighted to announce that this year’s Emerging Creatives Student Summit will be hosted by the University of Maryland on its College Park campus March 18-21, 2027. This year’s theme is “Power.”
Power comes from a solar panel or burning fuel, an idea or a group of people in motion. A work of art is powerful; so is a dictator. Power lends the capacity to control events and even people; power feeds, inspires, motivates and detonates. Where does power come from? What can we do with it? What should we do with it? (What would Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben say?)
Emerging Creatives is a three-day collaborative experience in which students form small cross-disciplinary teams to explore a specific area of the Summit’s theme. Over the course of the event, teams make something that represents their exploration: a syllabus, cookbook, podcast, app, opera, pair of shoes, urban blueprint, pop-up store, musical score, website…the list of possible outcomes is endless.
At Emerging Creatives, students not only envision and create their project; they also participate in hands-on experiences related to the Summit theme, meet extraordinary interdisciplinary thinkers, practice presenting their work, and exchange ideas about their project with peers and experts. Students also build collaboration skills in micro-workshops with a2ru staff.
