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In case of any queries, please contact: visharma (at) gatech (dot) edu hongjin_lin (at) g (dot) harvard (dot) edu

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**Bonnie Nardi, 2019: *”*Rather than letting circumstances become intolerable for billions, we should take heart and listen to those telling us to slow down, to organize our lives around caring and conviviality, to intervene in processes of capital accumulation. Thoughtful people have offered sound, reasonable alternatives, and, in my view, responsible design practice should act on them.”

About the Workshop

To uncover how post-growth ideas might take shape in HCI, we organized and participated in a workshop titled Post-growth HCI: Co-Envisioning HCI Beyond Economic Growth at CHI 2024. The workshop sparked deep, enriching discussions, highlighting the critical need for foundational conversations about the technologies we design and the underlying values they perpetuate.

Building on this momentum, our CHI 2025 workshop aims to critically examine the many hidden ways growth patterns manifest within HCI and ask how HCI can use its research, design, and praxis to build a more emancipatory future.

By bringing together HCI professionals, this workshop seeks to create a concrete conceptual foundation to co-reflect on growth patterns in HCI and co-devise strategies to reshape their influence, paving the way for transformative post-growth HCI practices.

This workshop series nurtures the Post-growth HCI Collective of scholars across borders, working in solidarity to challenge unjust and unsustainable growth narratives while collaboratively envisioning a post-growth future in HCI.

Workshop Format

Building on insights from last year’s workshop, we understand that discussions around (post-)growth require deep, critical, and sustained philosophical engagements with research practices and values, both at the community and individual levels.

To allow such engagements, the workshop will follow a hybrid format, conducted in three phases: online sessions (60-90 min) prior to and after the on-site session at CHI’25.

The online sessions will take place before and after the on-site one. They will be kept open-ended to familiarize participants across different time zones with post-growth principles. During the pre-workshop session, participants will be encouraged to start reflecting on how growth patterns manifest within HCI. These reflections may surface challenging questions regarding personal values, ethics, and the impact of their work. To allow space for this contemplation, we will provide time before reconvening for the on-site session (structure below), which will build on and extend the online discussions. The post-workshop sessions will offer a space to reflect on the conversations we had and discuss next steps.

Sessions will be self-contained but in dialogue with each other, ensuring that participants can engage meaningfully by attending either or all components of the workshop. The online sessions will support greater participation from people across timezones and those concerned about the environmental, financial, or other costs of travel.

Call for Participation

TL;DR: We encourage interested participants to submit a 300-500 word reflection in a single-column ACM template on how growth manifests in (or in their work in) HCI, along with an accompanying artifact (e.g., a photograph, poem, excerpt, or rough sketch) that illustrates what post-growth means or does not mean to them. Submissions should be made by February 13, 2025, through:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQqnAn76bO4Fk5ibzw0Vk4Vk2M6E_AoJnrZ1ZpouSDQDzTuw/viewform?usp=sharing

Workshop organizers will evaluate submissions based on their relevance and potential to generate critical discussions. Accepted submissions will be shared on the workshop website.