HOW TO SUBMIT

We invite anyone interested in care work, whether it is in relation to technology design and development, care practice, community organizing, or policy. Aiming to make submissions as flexible as possible, we ask participants to submit one of the following, highlighting their perspectives on care work:

• 300 word abstract

• 750-1500 word position paper

• 3-5 minute video or audio recording

• pictorial

• past paper with a 250-word commentary relating to the workshop themes

• resource that your or your organization has produced related to the workshop topic

• other formats with content that clearly relates to care work and the workshop themes

Submissions could focus on a range of topics, for example taking the form of a reflection piece, speculative fiction, a critical reading of prior work, or a case study. Making connections to one of the workshop themes is strongly encouraged. We describe themes below and you can also read our full proposal.

• Critical Perspectives on Care Work. This theme is intended to encourage participants to draw connections between one another's work and feminist political economy. Questions we reflect on through this theme include: What counts as care work? How do the cultural meanings, forms of control over, and economic and political contributions of care work change depending on the context? How has/does technology fit into these meanings and mechanisms? What methods are useful for comprehensively answering these questions and how can researchers and designers enable a critical reflection on complexities surrounding care work?

• Design For and With a Radical Politics of Care. The goal of this theme is to understand the role that design can play to meaningfully support care work that resists systems of oppression, advocacy for and by caregivers, and sociopolitical means of valuing care work. As part of this theme, we will ask: What are the continuities between participatory research and design and other design justice agendas and care-focused research? How can we learn from a radical politics of care rooted in, for example, mutual aid or commoning? What is the potential for speculative design as a way of understanding how to design with a radical politics of care?

• The Future of Care Work. Through this theme, we will explore forthcoming trends in the use of technology in care work, taking a broad view of what counts as work. We will discuss how this positionality could inform future of work discourse in CSCW and HCI, including avenues for policy change and workplace organizing. This theme also offers the opportunity to consider on a meta-level how researchers do (often unpaid) care work in research and our workplaces to create safer environments, and introspect on doing more going forward.

To apply, please upload your submission via a Google Form by September 16th. We will also accept submissions by email. Papers will be reviewed by the workshop organizers using a single-blind policy. Submissions will be published on this website with the author’s permission (there is space to indicate this on the Google Form and email template). To attend the workshop, at least one of the authors of the submission will need to pay registration. If we are able to secure funding to support attendance, we will update participants accordingly.

If you have questions, feel free to email the organizers via naveenak@uw.edu and azraismail@gatech.edu.