2025 Program Overview

For 2025, our program is designed around 3 tracks expressly designed to leverage the work of previous years.

  1. Protocol education through a Curriculum Development Program that will offer grants to faculty interested in teaching protocols, and a limited number of pro bono corporate workshops by program staff.
  2. Scene-making, through protocol fiction and popular nonfiction, via our Protocolized magazine, as well as affiliated writing meetups, workshops, and study groups.
  3. Technical foundations, through a track of workshops, starting with one in Bangkok, April 21-25.

Our philosophical theme for the year is accelerating order, understood as an imperative to enact and induce a creative new logic for the world through protocols. You can learn more about this them in Issue 006 of Protocolized.

Opportunities to Participate:

  • Khlongs and Subaks workshop (Bangkok, April 21-25): Applications due March 21
  • Curriculum Development Program: Applications due April 1
  • Terminological Twists short-story contest: Entries due April 15
  • Summer of Protocols at Edge Esmeralda: May 25-31
  • Basket of Protocols workshop, Fall 2025 (details tbd)
  • Write with Protocolized (learn more here)
  • Email research@summerofprotocols.com for any of the following:
    • Corporate workshops on protocols
    • Institutional partnerships
    • Speaking in our Protocol Town Hall salon series
    • Inviting one of us to speak at your organization
    • Print publishing enquires for The Protocol Reader