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Workshop Description
Workshop Description
Environmental and climate justice aim to reduce environmental degradation and pursue sustainable communities without doing so at the expense of others. In this virtual workshop, we hope to bring together scholars from areas such as critical data studies, computing networks, future of work, social movements, more-than-human relations, and participatory design to consider how we can strengthen connections and commitments to social justice movements that are dually focused on environmental sustainability.
To tie environmental and climate justice objectives to CSCW, we anchor our workshop discussion in a central question: as individual researchers, practitioners, and activists, in what ways does our work, and the research-related institutions we operate within, work against and toward environmental and climate justice movements?
Read the full workshop paper proposal here.
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Schedule
Schedule
Call for Participation
Call for Participation
Our workshop discussion is anchored in a central question: as individual researchers, practitioners, and activists, in what ways does our work, and the research-related institutions we operate within, work against and toward environmental and climate justice movements?
To respond to this question, we invite contributions on the following themes:
1. Datafication Imaginaries: Reflections or analysis on the ways data and technology are designed, structured, implemented and disseminated to work toward or against environmental or climate justice outcomes;
2. Visibility and beyond: Analysis on the role and relevance of visibility as intervention, as well as the potential for CSCW to support more radical interventions (e.g., land back, prison abolition) as an approach to environmental and climate justice outcomes;
3. Towards Critical Environmental Justice: Identification of communities (including more than humans) and types of social difference that have been marginalized by traditional notions of sustainability in CSCW;
4. Methodologies: Opportunities or limitations of existing methodological practices in CSCW (e.g., participatory design, co-production etc.) or academic norms (data collection, paper publication) towards advancing environmental and climate justice.
Submission Details
Submissions are expected to either take the shape of research or position paper (2-4 pages) or a creative contribution, or an example of political, technological, or design intervention or campaign they are working on (with a 300-500 word description). Accepted papers will be added to the workshop website, and at least one author is expected to attend the workshop remotely, and register for the workshop for at least one conference day.
We accept papers formatted using the ACM Master Article Submission Templates, single column. Find details related to formatting via Microsoft Word and LaTeX here and Overleaf here.
The review process will non-anonymized.
Important Dates
Submission deadline - ON A ROLLING BASIS UNTIL OCT 6, 2023
Decision notification: August 28, 2023
Early CSCW registration deadline: September 8, 2023
*Early bird CSCW registration is 1st September 2023, but participants accepted to the workshop can add on the workshop after this deadline has passed (workshop registration cost does not change after this deadline, only the main conference).
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Organizers
Organizers
Olivia Doggett
Olivia Doggett
Olivia is a PhD student in the Faculty of Information and School of Environment at the University of Toronto. Her research investigates how migrant farm labor and agricultural technologies shape large-scale commercial farming practices and interrogates how these labor production systems can be redirected to support more sustainable and socially equitable agricultural practices.
Jen Liu
Jen Liu
Jen is a PhD student in Information Science at Cornell University (USA). Her research investigates the ecological, social, and political implications of computing technologies and infrastructures. Jen has worked on topics including land politics in digital agriculture and knowledge production in environmental sensing. Her current work is on the impact of climate change on networked infrastructures in the American South.
Ufuoma Ovienmhada
Ufuoma Ovienmhada
Ufuoma is a PhD student in Aerospace Engineering at MIT (USA). Her research investigates the opportunities, challenges, and limitations of satellite remote sensing for grassroots organizing in the Environmental Justice movement. Some of her recent work has investigated the uses of geospatial data for organizing at the intersection of prisons and the environment towards abolition.
Samar Sabie
Samar Sabie
Samar is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Communication, Culture, and Information Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She also holds a graduate appointment at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and directs the Open Design Collaboratory. Dr. Sabie’s research examines how design as a socio-material practice can support communities in reconfiguring or reimagining the environments they inhabit in more sustainable ways despite cultural, generational, and institutional barriers.
Samar is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Communication, Culture, and Information Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She also holds a graduate appointment at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and directs the Open Design Collaboratory. Dr. Sabie’s research examines how design as a socio-material practice can support communities in reconfiguring or reimagining the environments they inhabit in more sustainable ways despite cultural, generational, and institutional barriers.
Sarah Gram
Sarah Gram
Sarah is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Her research investigates repair and maintenance practices in socio-technical infrastructures, and is attentive to the material conditions that permit, inhibit, or encourage the examination of broken, old, or obsolete technologies. Her recent work has investigated labor practices in the field of consumer technology repair.
Laura Perovich
Laura Perovich
Laura is an Assistant Professor in Art + Design at Northeastern University (USA). Her research aims to create impact on environmental challenges through local, community-engaged design practices that take seriously the complexities of social, cultural, and ecological systems and the possibilities of collective action. As part of this work, she designs experiences around making and making sense of environmental data in partnership with communities, community groups, and environmental justice organizations.
Matt Ratto
Matt Ratto
Matt is a Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on how theories and perspectives from technoscience research can usefully extend and contextualize design and engineering practices. He studies and practices ‘critical making’, work that combines humanities insights.
Robert Soden
Robert Soden
Robert is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto working on climate informatics, human-centered computing, and science and technology studies. His research uses a range of ethnographic, participatory, and design research methods to evaluate and improve the technologies we use to understand and respond to environmental challenges like disasters and climate change.
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