Call for Participation

July 10, 2025 is the last day to register for COMPASS at https://compass.acm.org/registration-2025/.

Those with existing registration may apply for this workshop up until July 15, 2025. 

There is no additional cost to join a workshop.

Call for participation:

The ‘Designing Sustainable Indigenous Technology’ workshop provides a venue for interdisciplinary approaches and viewpoints to collaboratively explore and design technologies that contribute to Indigenous efforts around sustainability. This workshop will act as a “hackathon” for those interested in exploring and designing sustainable technologies for Indigenous communities. Participants will work together to identify design interventions, determine appropriate tasks, and discuss the environmental, societal, and ethical issues that can arise from technological development.

We welcome researchers, practitioners, designers, Indigenous community members, activists, and other actors who find this call relevant to their work and/or life practices. This one-day workshop will include short presentations from local Indigenous community members and design activities for Indigenous technologies that address concerns around sustainability. We encourage participants to submit a statement of interest that does not exceed 500 words. The statement should include information about the participant’s background and reasons for wishing to take part in the workshop. The workshop organizers will review the submissions which will be selected based on their quality and relevance to the workshop themes and goals. We will do our best to accommodate specific accessibility needs participants might have.

Contact Alex Cabral (acabral30@gatech.edu) or Julia McKenna (julia.mckenna@northwestern.edu) with any questions or concerns and to learn about participant funding availability!