---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Barath Raghavan <barathra@usc.edu> Date: Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 8:23 PM Subject: LIMITS 2021 -- Workshop on Computing within Limits CFP To: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl@cs.washington.edu> Hi everyone, Lisa Nathan and I are excited to invite you all to submit papers to LIMITS 2021. The text call for papers is below, and the website has a little more info. Hope to see your papers in a couple months and/or see you virtually at the workshop in June. Thanks! -Barath ** Computing within Limits, LIMITS 2021 https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/ ABOUT LIMITS The LIMITS workshop concerns the role of computing in human societies affected by real-world limits (ecological and otherwise). We seek to reshape the computing research agenda as topics that acknowledge a need for limits are seldom discussed in relation to contemporary computing research. LIMITS 2021 solicits submissions that move us closer towards computing systems that support diverse human and non-human lifeforms within thriving biospheres. This year, LIMITS will be a virtual, distributed workshop. All main sessions will be held in parallel (morning in Pacific Time, late afternoon in UTC). CALL FOR PAPERS "We restate the question: can design be reoriented from its dependence on the marketplace toward creative experimentation with forms, concepts, territoires, and materials, especially when appropriated by subaltern communities struggling to redefine their life projects in a mutually enhancing manner with the Earth?" --Escobar, 2018, p. xvii LIMITS 2021 invites papers that respond to the question: "What is a LIMITS-aligned computing system?" We encourage authors to submit either a Hypothetical Systems paper or an Transitional Systems paper: Hypothetical Systems: Applying or responding to ideas from earlier LIMITS workshops, propose a hypothetical computing system or artifact (either software, hardware, or some combination) that embodies LIMITS thinking. Who would use this system? Who might benefit from engaging with the system? Who might be harmed? How are the premises (conceptual or concrete) upon which the system is built different from our current computing systems? How does the LIMITS-informed system enact a different world or ways of being in the world? Transitional Systems: Researchers and engineers, activists and concerned citizens, are (re)designing systems that acknowledge and address pressing ecological issues (e.g., severe droughts, flooding, wildfires, species extinction). A transitional systems paper concerns the (re)design, implementation, and/or evaluation of a real-world, contemporary, socio-technical computing system that responds--at least partially--to critiques or "implications for design" from earlier LIMITS papers or LIMITS-related scholarship (e.g., computing and sustainability, computing and social justice). All transitional systems papers should explicitly state how the system(s) described support LIMITS-aligned goals. NOTE: We encourage authors to consider the stories they tell and reify through their work. As Constanza-Chock reminds us, "Stories have power". They continue to argue that, "(...) all technological innovation, is an interplay among complex sets of actors including users, developers, firms, universities, the state, and others, not a top-down process led by solitary programmer 'rock stars.' [...] "In other words, what stories are told about design problems, solutions, contexts, and outcome? Who gets to tell these stories? Who participates, who benefits, and who is harmed?" (p. 134) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registration deadline: March 15, 2021, 11:59pm Pacific Time Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2021, 11:59pm Pacific Time Paper reviews available: ~April 15, 2021 Camera ready deadline: May 15, 2021 -- Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu