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Dear friends and colleagues,
The 11th Workshop on Computing within Limits (LIMITS) will take
place
on June 26th and 27th 2025 in the online/hybrid format we
established
over the last years. Please consider submitting your LIMITS
research
by April 25th 2025, 11:59pm AoE. Links to the submission site,
participation information, and everything else you ever wanted to
know
about LIMITS will be available at
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/
_Important Dates_
Paper submission deadline: April 25th, 2025, 11:59pm AoE
Paper reviews available: June 3rd, 2025
Camera ready deadline: June 20th, 2025
LIMITS Workshop: June 26th-27th, 2025
_About LIMITS_
The LIMITS workshop concerns the role of computing in human
societies
situated in a world of limits, such as limits of extractive
logics,
limits to a biosphere’s ability to recover, limits to our
knowledge,
or limits to technological solutions to societal issues. 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 2025 solicits submissions that move
us
closer towards computing that supports diverse human and non-human
lifeforms and thriving biospheres.
_Call for Papers_
We welcome scholarship by researchers, engineers, designers, and
artists who are investigating and/or (re)designing computing
systems
in ways that engage with pressing ecological and social issues and
crises.
LIMITS is a place for a wide range of perspectives and approaches.
We invite works that build on previous LIMITS work, such as
provocations from earlier LIMITS gatherings (e.g., Unplanned
Obsolescence, LIMITS 2017 or Computing as Ecocide, LIMITS 2023),
that
broadens the understanding of LIMITS (e.g., Age of Consequences,
LIMITS 2015), that explores our own limits (e.g., Computing within
Psychological Limits, LIMITS 2015), that explores strategies for
working in a LIMITed world (e.g., Limits-aware computing, LIMITS
2015), or that design and/or build transitional systems (e.g.,
Solar-powered website, LIMITS 2021). 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.
LIMITS also strives to be a place for envisioning technologies
otherwise: a place for pluriversal design, for work that considers
how
visions and frameworks of degrowth and post-growth affect
computing,
or how computing can grapple with colonialism.
We also encourage authors to envision and submit research on
Hypothetical Systems, i.e., speculative design work or proposals
for
hypothetical computing systems or artifacts (either software,
hardware, or some combination) that embody 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 LIMITS-informed system design enact different
worlds
or ways of being in these worlds?
We encourage authors to consider the stories they tell and reify
through their work. As Costanza-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?”
(Costanza-Chock 2020 p. 134).
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