This year’s virtual artistic research symposium explores how illustration can offer insight and meet social needs through engagement with complex materialities. IN-R Symposium 2 is a 3-day symposium highlights keynote speakers Prof. Nina Sabnani (India), Prof. Johanna Drucker (USA) and Senior Research Fellow Sarah Bodman (UK) as well as artists, and designers, to engage in tailor-made workshops, and live exchanges that explore the diverse landscape that has unfolded through social transformations, technological changes and novel approaches in illustration.