Scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists are invited to submit papers and participate in the Place-based Climate Data Practices hybrid workshop at ACM COMPASS 2025. This interdisciplinary workshop interrogates how place---as physical, cultural, spiritual, and artistic---shapes the creation, circulation, and application of climate data in pursuit of equitable climate futures. Building on prior climate data practices work, we seek to bridge HCI, STS, and justice-oriented climate action by centering place as a relational process that mediates power asymmetries, infrastructural inequities, and epistemic hierarchies.
We invite submissions addressing four themes:
Definition: How is “place” conceptualized in climate data work? How do you engage with place-based data practices? (physical, cultural, spiritual, artistic)
Engagement: How do issues of politics and power shape place-based climate data practices?
Scalability: What are the broader or unintended consequences of growing and scaling infrastructures for climate data?
Prioritization: What values do different institutions such as national agencies, universities, corporations, or community-based groups prioritize in generating climate data?
Submissions may include position papers (4–6 pages), case studies, artistic provocations, or other relevant artifacts.
Please submit using the following form by July 13, 2025
Questions can be emailed to
Taneea S Agrawaal (taneea[at]cs[dot]toronto[dot]edu)
or Sarah Cooney (sarah[dot]cooney[at]villanova[dot]edu)