From m.foth at qut.edu.au Mon Oct 14 00:01:28 2019 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:01:28 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] =?utf-8?q?CfP=3A_Designing_Smart_for_Sustainable?= =?utf-8?q?_Communities_=E2=80=93_OZCHI=E2=80=9919_Workshop_2_Dec_2019_Per?= =?utf-8?q?th_WA?= Message-ID: Final Call for Participation Designing Smart for Sustainable Communities: Reflecting on the Role of Human-Computer Interaction for Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals 2 December 2019, Perth, WA, Australia http://www.designingsmart.com.au/ A workshop at the Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OZCHI’19) http://ozchi.org/2019/ ======================================= Submissions open until 20 October 2019 This workshop reflects on the role of the HCI community in addressing sustainable development in cities, regional centres and rural communities. The workshop will bring together academics, researchers and practitioners to share their experiences, expertise and visions for: (1) evolving HCI design approaches to move beyond the individual; (2) re-engaging with institutions in order to repoliticise HCI practices, projects and methods, and; (3) counteracting depoliticisation in large parts of the design field. We are specifically interested in ways of 'designing smart' by engaging communities throughout the process of addressing complex challenges, such as social inequality, economic disparity and environmental degradation. ======================================= Audience and Theme The main objective of our workshop is to bring academic researchers and practitioners together to explore and debate new approaches for co-designing communities, cities, regional centres, services and experiences of the future by engaging a variety of people in the design process. ​Submissions to this workshop should take the concept of designing smart to the next level by exploring strategies, mechanisms, stakeholders (and their roles), technologies, design approaches, and methodologies that look at ‘scaling-up’ efforts to go beyond sustainable development on an individual level and push and scale up to the broader community, city, state, national or planetary level. Specifically, submissions should either address systemic issues pertinent across different layers, or align with one or more of the UN sustainable development goals https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/ ​Topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to the following areas of HCI scholarship and inquiry: - HCI, interaction design, participatory design that explore political issues, such as designing for existential crises, institutioning, re-politicising HCI - HCI for civic design, community activism, community engagement - HCI for smart engagement and smart city planning and design - HCI and post-anthropocentric design, post-humanist design, more-than-human futures - HCI and sustainability - HCI and new economic paradigms such as circular economy, doughnut economics, degrowth, voluntary simplicity, prosperous decent, cooperativism ======================================= Participation If you are interested in participation in the workshop, we ask you to please email us a short abstract of approximately 200-500 words. This can take the form of a statement outlining your interests, questions, insights, or current research or practice. Submissions are open until 20 October 2019. Please email your abstract to hello at designingsmart.com.au All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organisers for relevance. After the workshop, we will finalise our proposal for a special issue in a high ranking journal on the subject. ======================================= Organisers Joel Fredericks, Design Lab, The University of Sydney Callum Parker, Design Lab, The University of Sydney Glenda Caldwell, QUT Design Lab Marcus Foth, QUT Design Lab Hilary Davis, Swinburne University of Technology Martin Tomitsch, Design Lab, The University of Sydney -- Prof. Marcus Foth FACS Professor of Urban Informatics QUT Design Lab, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – qut.design Honorary Professor, School of Communication & Culture Aarhus University, Denmark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Wed Oct 16 18:51:51 2019 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:51:51 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] =?utf-8?q?CfP_=E2=80=94_special_issue_on_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=9CAI_and_its_Discontents=E2=80=9D?= Message-ID: CfP for upcoming special issue on AI and its Discontents.... Feel free to forward. Thanks! Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents Call for Papers for a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Guest Editor: Colin Shunryu Garvey, Fellow, Human-Centered AI Institute, Center for International Security & Cooperation, Stanford University Journal Editor: Willard McCarty, Professor emeritus, Dept. of Digital Humanities, King’s College This is increasingly the Age of AI. Artificial Intelligence, the suite of technologies that make machines capable of performing tasks considered “intelligent” when performed by people, is colonizing an increasing number of domains, from Internet search and social media to the natural sciences and even criminal sentencing. AI may soon become ubiquitous; coextensive with civilization itself, a taken-for-granted feature of modernity like electricity or running water. But this does not mean that all is well: AI has, and has always had, its discontents; those who doubt, question, challenge, reject, reform and otherwise reprise “AI” as it is practiced and promoted. With the hope of scaffolding deeper understandings of both the epochal transformations being wrought by AI technologies and the range of responses these changes, this special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews will bring together reflections from practitioners, assessments from scientists in fields transformed by AI, and historically-informed accounts of AI and its critics, both past and present, in order to capture something of the significance of this historical moment for future generations. A few questions worth pondering might be: - Who are AI’s discontents and how have they contended with the technology’s advance? - How has AI been challenged in areas from scientific knowledge production to daily life? - What is being left out of the increasingly dominant “machine learning” paradigm, and why? - Where is the line drawn between “AI” and everything else, and who patrols that boundary? - Why has criticism been regarded differently in AI than in other technosciences? Contributions can range in length from reflective contributions of only a few pages to full research articles (maximum of 8000 words including citations and references, in most cases). The deadline for abstracts is November 15, 2019. Final papers will be collected January 15, 2020. The issue will be finalized by mid-March and sent to press for a projected June 2020 release. Please contact Colin Shunryu Garvey with any questions or proposals: shunryu at stanford.edu -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! 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Name: Garvey - AI and its Discontents - Stanford.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 96403 bytes Desc: not available URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Thu Oct 17 13:50:37 2019 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:50:37 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Fwd: [LIMITS] We are hiring a PhD student (sustainability + design) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology In-Reply-To: <8685f835-362f-491f-a6ee-2ed6187ecc19@googlegroups.com> References: <8685f835-362f-491f-a6ee-2ed6187ecc19@googlegroups.com> Message-ID: anybody know anybody who might be interested in this? Saving the earth one mile not flown at a time... Thanks! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Daniel Pargman Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 4:53 AM Subject: [LIMITS] We are hiring a PhD student (sustainability + design) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology To: LIMITS Hello. *We are hiring!* We will hire a PhD student to work in our our new research project, ”Decreasing CO2 emissions in flight-intensive organisation ". You will be part of the sustainability research group at the Department of Media Technology and Interaction Design (MID) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). *Here is the ad - the last day to apply is November 7.* A requirement is that the applicant must "*have a specialization (or prior experience) in design, for example, interaction design*”. While the ad has the complete information about the position, the most relevant information is: "*You will join an interdisciplinary research project that aims to decrease carbon emissions in flight-intensive organizations. We work collaboratively with other ongoing efforts to decrease carbon emissions at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The project will develop interaction tools and methods to visualize, engage and help individuals and departments to become aware of and decrease unnecessary flying. You will help us explore and develop novel concepts and design proposals to support behavior change on an individual and organizational level. Our project will contribute to KTH’s overarching sustainability goal to decrease carbon emissions from flight with 20% during the current four-year period*.” Please disseminate this information in your networks as you see fit! Hälsningar Daniel Pargman _____________________ Ph.D., Senior Lecturer (associate professor) Media Technology and Interaction Design KTH Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden pargman at kth.se http://danielpargman.blogspot.com/ Recent publications: - Hedin Katzeff Eriksson & Pargman (2019). A Systematic Review of Digital Behaviour Change Interventions for More Sustainable Food Consumption. Sustainability, 11(9), 2638. (pdf ) - Widdicks & Pargman (2019). Breaking the Cornucopian Paradigm: Towards Moderate Internet Use in Everyday Life. In 5th workshop on Computing Within Limits. ACM. (pdf ) PI for research projects: - "Decreased CO2-emissions in flight-intensive organisations : from data to practice” (2019-2022). - "Beyond the event horizon: tools to explore local energy transformations” (2020-2022). - "From Homo Sapiens to Homo Colossus: Visualising our energy footprint” (2020-2022) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "LIMITS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to limits+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/limits/8685f835-362f-491f-a6ee-2ed6187ecc19%40googlegroups.com . -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Thu Oct 31 20:20:21 2019 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 20:20:21 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Pattern Language and the Green New Deal Message-ID: I've been working on an article on patterns and pattern languages and the Green New Deal. I'm thinking that this could be a useful theme for promoting the approach and helping to strengthen our community. I'm trying to build a case that pattern languages could play an important role in relation to the Green New Deal. I'm looking for people who might be able to look over the draft and hopefully provide feedback on the paper's content as well as ideas as to who might also be willing to provide their thoughts, who else might be interested or any thoughts on what could be done with the paper. I'm working with Aldo de Moor and Justin Smith on a broader, more detailed paper about how we could / should be thinking about pattern languages in relation to "wicked problems" in general. It's basically the paper that we presented at last year's PUARL conference expanded considerably. Ideally this one will be ready for review in a week or two.... Please let me know if you're interested in getting a draft copy for review. Thanks!! — Doug -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! 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