Given the growing global crises caused by the growth economy, there is a pedagogical responsibility to prepare future Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) professionals to embrace uncertainty and question unsustainable ideologies and practices. This workshop creates a space for educators and students to critically reflect on how HCI pedagogy might move beyond “bigger–and-faster” framings and toward practices of sufficiency, repair, and care. Through activities such as co-designing a living syllabus and reimagining evaluation criteria for student work, participants will explore how education can itself function as an infrastructural practice for cultivating post-growth perspectives within HCI. In doing so, this workshop aims to foreground pedagogy as a vital site where post-growth commitments can take root, reorienting the content and practice of HCI toward cultivating socio-ecologically just futures.

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Workshop @CHI'26 in two phases: online sessions prior to the on-site workshop at CHI 2026 in Barcelona

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In case of any queries, please contact: vishal.sharma (at) nd (dot) edu

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Call for Participation

This two-session workshop at CHI 2026, preceded by a 60-minute virtual session prior to the conference, invites HCI educators and students worldwide to critically reflect on how HCI education might move beyond the logics of “bigger-and-faster,” and toward practices of sufficiency, repair, and care. The workshop aims to foreground pedagogy as a critical arena where post-growth commitments can take root, shaping HCI’s education for socio-ecologically just futures. Through collaborative activities such as co-designing a living syllabus and reimagining how we evaluate student work, participants will explore teaching as an infrastructural practice for post-growth HCI.

We welcome submissions that experiment with integrating alternative pedagogies and/or post-growth perspectives in HCI or adjacent fields. Contributions may take the form of relevant book chapters, journal articles, teaching materials, workshop reports, syllabi, zines, reading lists, or toolkits that could be useful to design a post-growth HCI syllabus. Submissions should be made by (February 20), 2026, through:

https://forms.gle/G2L8mX5JMizRFuGD7

The organizing team will review submissions for relevance and potential to spark discussion. Accepted participants will be notified by March 1, 2026. All participants must register for CHI 2026 and attend the on-site workshop (without additional fee).

This workshop is part of an ongoing effort to nurture the Post-Growth HCI Collective by grounding its commitments in actionable practices. By taking pedagogy as a leverage point, it seeks to curate tangible ways to embed post-growth values into HCI’s everyday teaching and training.

Full Workshop Proposal

CHI26_PGWorkshop.pdf

Organizers

Vishal Sharma, University of Notre Dame

Hongjin Lin, Harvard University

Jasmine Lu, University of Chicago

Han Qiao, University of Toronto

Asra Sakeen Wani, IIIT-Delhi