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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Computing within Limits Workshop, LIMITS 2021 -- CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/">https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">"We restate the question: can design be reoriented from its dependence on the marketplace toward creative experimentation with forms, concepts, territories, and materials, especially
when appropriated by subaltern communities struggling to redefine their life projects in a mutually enhancing manner with the Earth?" --Escobar, 2018, p. xvii<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">LIMITS 2021 invites papers that respond to the question: "What is a LIMITS-aligned computing system?" We encourage authors to submit either a Hypothetical Systems paper or a Transitional
Systems paper:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Hypothetical Systems: Applying or responding to ideas from earlier LIMITS workshops, propose a hypothetical computing system or artifact (either software, hardware, or some combination)
that embodies 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
the LIMITS-informed system enact a different world or ways of being in the world?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Transitional Systems: Researchers and engineers, activists and concerned citizens, are (re)designing systems that acknowledge and address pressing ecological issues (e.g., severe droughts,
flooding, wildfires, species extinction). A transitional systems paper concerns the (re)design, implementation, and/or evaluation of a real-world, contemporary, socio-technical computing system that responds--at least partially--to critiques or "implications
for design" from earlier LIMITS papers or LIMITS-related scholarship (e.g., computing and sustainability, computing and social justice). All transitional systems papers should explicitly state how the system(s) described support LIMITS-aligned goals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">NOTE: We encourage authors to consider the stories they tell and reify through their work. As Constanza-Chock reminds us, "Stories have power". They continue to argue that, "(...) all
technological innovation, is an interplay among complex sets of actors including users, developers, firms, universities, the state, and others, not a top-down process led by solitary programmer 'rock stars.' [...] "In other words, what stories are told about
design problems, solutions, contexts, and outcome? Who gets to tell these stories? Who participates, who benefits, and who is harmed?" (p. 134)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Abstract registration deadline: March 15, 2021, 11:59pm Pacific Time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2021, 11:59pm Pacific Time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Paper reviews available: ~April 15, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Camera ready deadline: May 15, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Lisa P. Nathan MLIS PhD (she|her)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Associate Professor | lisa.nathan[at]ubc.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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