The Place-Based Climate Data Workshop will be a one-day, hybrid workshop.

 Sustainable HCI (SHCI) originated with a focus on designing technologies to promote individual behavior change around resource consumption reflecting early climate discourse centered on personal responsibility. Recent SHCI scholarship is increasingly attending to better understand what people and organizations do when they create, use, or otherwise interact with data and information infrastructures. Building on Soden et al.’s framework of climate data practices— purposeful, patterned forms of action that guide how people collaborate with each other, nature, and technology to create, use, and make meaning from data in the realm of climate action — this workshop interrogates how place mediates these practices. While the climate crisis is global, its impacts and responses are inherently local, shaped by physical landscapes, cultural traditions, spiritual relationships, and artistic expressions.  We invite practitioners in and adjacent to SHCI to consider the ways place and climate data intersect, and how connections to place can be conceived from different lenses (e.g. physical, cultural, spiritual, artistic, etc.). Our goal is to surface and reflect on a variety of place-based data practices and to find connections between, differences in, and adaptations to these practices, allowing us to create a place-based community of practice within a wider network of climate-justice engaged scholars and practitioners.

Please see our workshop proposal [LINK] and the CFP for more details