Call for Papers: Limits within Computing Workshop About LIMITS 2022 The LIMITS workshop concerns the role of computing in human societies affected by real-world limits*. As an interdisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners, and scholars, we seek to reshape the computing research agenda, grounded by an awareness that contemporary computing research is intertwined with ecological limits in general and climate- and climate justice-related limits in particular. LIMITS 2022 solicits submissions that move us closer towards computing systems that support diverse human and non-human lifeforms within thriving biospheres.
2022 Call for Papers We welcome scholarship by researchers, engineers, designers, and artists who are (re)designing computing systems that engage pressing ecological issues. Building on provocations from earlier LIMITS gatherings, we encourage papers that describe transitional systems. Transitional systems attempt to (re)design, implement, and/or evaluate a real-world or hypothetical socio-technical computing system in response to "implications for design" raised by earlier LIMITS papers or LIMITS-related scholarship in the areas of computing and sustainability, computing and climate-justice). All papers should explicitly state how the work supports LIMITS-aligned goals. We also encourage authors to consider the stories they tell and reify through their work. As Constanza-Chock reminds us, "Stories have power". They ask us to consider, "(...) what stories are told about design problems, solutions, contexts, and outcomes? Who gets to tell these stories? Who participates, who benefits, and who is harmed?" (p. 134) * For example, limits of extractive logics, limits to a biosphere's ability to recover, limits to our knowledge, or limits to technological "solutions". Reference: Costanza-Chock, S. (2020). Design justice: Community-led practices to build the worlds we need. The MIT Press. https://design-justice.pubpub.org/ Key Dates Abstract registration deadline: March 18, 2022, 11:59pm Pacific Time Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2022, 11:59pm Pacific Time Paper reviews available: April 29, 2022 Camera ready deadline: May 20, 2022 Limits Workshop: June 21-22, 2022 Workshop Format In 2022, LIMITS will be a virtual, distributed workshop. We welcome participants to organize local gatherings or "limits-hubs" that encourage community-building and sharing of infrastructure. Submissions A link for paper registration will be available through https://computingwithinlimits.org/2022/ two weeks before the registration deadline. Papers should adhere to the following guidelines: . ACM double-column format http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html , using the most recent template, but without ACM copyright information. . Main body text should use 9pt font. . Body of the paper should be a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 10 pages, with an unlimited number of pages allowed for references. Reviewing will be non-blind; authors should include their names and contact information and reviews will include reviewer names. All papers will be made freely available on the workshop website. Copyright will remain with the authors. -- Douglas Schuler [email protected] Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project https://www.publicsphereproject.org/ <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) https://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv <https://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liberating-voices What type of activist are you? The Activist Mirror knows! https://labs.publicsphereproject.org/am
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