About:

Since 2024, the Post-growth HCI event series has emerged as an intervention in reimagining technological design beyond extractive capitalist logics [Sharma et al. 2023]. Convened by an interdisciplinary collective of researchers, practitioners, and critical scholars, our gatherings aim to excavate the increasingly pervasive economic imperatives that constrain and shape technology design. We seek to actively speculate and materialize alternative technological futures that prioritize care, restoration, and sustainability over exponential growth. We interrogate how digital systems can be redesigned to resist dominant economic paradigms, challenging the fundamental assumptions of innovation, proposing modes of technological becoming that prioritize collective well-being.

UPCOMIMG:

CHI’26: Cultivating Pedagogies for Post-Growth HCI [Workshop]

PAST EVENTS:

CHI’25: Advancing Post-growth HCI [Workshop]

CHI’24: Co-Envisioning HCI Beyond Economic Growth [Workshop]

CSCW’24: Nurturing Digitally Mediated Post-Growth Work Economies [Panel]

CHI’24: Sustainabilities and HCIs from the Souths [Panel]

ARTICLES:

XRDS’25: Challenging the Growth Narrative in and Through HCI [article]

CHI’25: Sustainability, Development, and Human–Computer Interaction [paper]

Interactions’24: Post-Growth HCI: Some Reflections and a Call to Action [article]

TOCHI’23: Post-growth Human–Computer Interaction [journal paper]