About the Workshop

This is a one-day online-first hybrid workshop that invites HCI researchers, designers, practitioners, educators, and students to join us as active agents in critically and collectively evaluating and co-devising ways to orient HCI to post-growth. Post-growth focuses on improving the quality of life centered on cooperation, social solidarity, care, justice, sharing, localized development, and other values. Orienting to post-growth could be instrumental in leading the HCI community beyond growth politics by envisioning, designing, and implementing technologies toward building a more sustainable, just, and humane society. This workshop is a preliminary effort towards building a Post-growth HCI Collective to raise "critical consciousness" about the economy’s increasing impingements in HCI as well as embracing, engaging, and critiquing post-growth ideas to integrate them into transformative HCI practices for nurturing just and sustainable technology-mediated futures in and through HCI. The workshop aims to create enriching learning experiences and initiate actions extending beyond the workshop's boundaries and contribute to the betterment of the HCI community.