Call for Papers

Sustainability continuous to be an important concern for HCI. In this workshop, we aim to bring into conversation diverse scholars and theories of sustainability, in particular the sustainable HCI community interested in positively impacting sustainability goals through and in their work, and community-based participatory design and digital civics researchers concerned about the sustainability or longevity of their work. 

We invite researchers and practitioners from DIS, HCI and PD and related disciplines who have in the past worked or are currently working on sustainability topics to join forces to reflect on their experiences, discuss sustainability frameworks and their application in HCI, and develop a sustainability roadmap to guide our work to be socially relevant long-term. 

Among other topics, we are interested in: 

• applications of diverse sustainability frameworks in HCI (e.g., Triple Bottom Line, Circles of Sustainability, Doughnut Economics, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or specific philosophies, such as permaculture)

• sustainability beyond consumption and the consumer

• complexity and collaboration on sustainability

• equity, power, and knowledge systems in HCI research

• long-term use, maintenance, scaling, and impact

• funding and financial viability

• evaluation metrics and their limits

See the full list of workshop themes here.

Interested participants are invited to submit a 300-word statement outlining

1. your personal conception of “sustainability”

2. any past, current, or future work that engages with sustainability

Please indicate if you intend to attend in person or online. With your permission, contributions will be published on the workshop’s website. 

The workshop will be hybrid (in-person and online) with further asynchronous engagement opportunities before and after the workshop. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and all participants must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference.