No Boundaries is a one‑day conference and festival exploring transdisciplinary practice, collaboration, and creativity in response to urgent global challenges. Organised by the FeME Network (Failure Modes of Engineering) in collaboration with the DiveIn Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), the event will take place on Tuesday 26 May 2026 at the Mazumdar‑Shaw Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow.
While engineering has delivered remarkable innovations, it is increasingly clear that conventional, siloed approaches are not enough to address interconnected global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, food insecurity, digital transformation, and social inequity. No Boundaries takes this as its starting point, foregrounding work that crosses disciplinary, sectoral, and cultural boundaries. The conference brings together researchers, practitioners, artists, educators, and community partners who are experimenting with new ways of working - combining technical expertise with creative methods, critical reflection, and lived experience.
The programme features a vibrant mix of sessions, including practice‑based workshops, lightning talks, case studies, demonstrations, and performances. Across the day, attendees will encounter an eclectic line‑up: art and musical performances, a poetry keynote, games‑based pedagogy, showcases from the DiveIn CDT cohort and the FeME Tapestry, and sessions spanning food systems, philosophy, AI, and ethical and collaborative practice. Alongside these sessions, the conference offers hands‑on creative activities and drop‑in spaces for participation, conversation, and making - creating room not just to discuss transdisciplinary approaches to global challenges, but to experience them in action.
No Boundaries is an invitation to explore how we work together, how we share knowledge, and how we respond collectively and creatively to the complex challenges shaping our world.