Vishal Sharma

phd candidate, human-centered computing @GeorgiaTech • HCI, Sustainability, Future of work, Post-growth • he/they

2025-01-09

As a co-editor with (w/ @nicbidwell @robertsoden and Matthew Louis Mauriello), we launch this new ACM Interactions forum and invite submissions to showcase HCI research into climate change understanding, mitigation, and adaptation. This forum aims to advance a more global discourse in the field on how we can best contribute to climate action. 🌎 ✨

If you have questions or would like to propose an article, please email: Climate4Change@interactions.acm.org.

More details: doi.org/10.1145/3704990

2024-12-24

Excited to share an ACM Interactions reflection piece/blog from our CHI panel: There is no Plan(et) B: On Sustainability and HCI🌱: interactions.acm.org/blog/view

w/ @neha @adrianfriday @jtjacques @nicbidwell @robertsoden @kathringerling @mattm401 @annlight @ShakeriGozel

2024-12-18

Join us at #CHI2025 for Advancing Post-growth HCI—a hybrid workshop to critically examine the hidden ways growth patterns manifest within HCI and how they can be challenged.

Online + on-site
Submit by Feb 13, 2025

Details: bit.ly/4gBS6Ys

#postGrowthHCI #degrowth

w/ @neha @naveena @cbecker @hongjinlin @martintom #shaowenbardzell #anupriyatuli #asrakaeenwani #jaredkatzman

## About the Workshop

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To uncover how post-growth ideas might take shape in HCI, we organized and participated in a workshop titled *Post-growth HCI: Co-Envisioning HCI Beyond Economic Growth* at CHI 2024. The workshop sparked deep, enriching discussions, highlighting the critical need for foundational conversations about the technologies we design and the underlying values they perpetuate.

Building on this momentum, our CHI 2025 workshop aims to critically examine the many hidden ways growth patterns manifest within HCI and ask how HCI can use its research, design, and praxis to build a more emancipatory future. 

By bringing together HCI professionals, this workshop seeks to create a concrete conceptual foundation to *co-reflect* on growth patterns in HCI and *co-devise* strategies to reshape their influence, paving the way for transformative post-growth HCI practices.

This workshop series nurtures the *Post-growth HCI Collective* of scholars across borders, working in solidarity to challenge unjust and unsustainable growth narratives while collaboratively envisioning a post-growth future in HCI.
2024-07-20

Honored to co-author this article, reflecting on our individual and collective experiences of conducting sustainability research to advocate for establishing “multifaceted-disciplinary” research teams with racial, sociocultural, & economic diversity to deepen justice considerations in sustainability research toward building sustainable and humane futures for all: doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.11

#DiversityInSustainability

Above image: From left to right and top to bottom: Vishal Sharma, Sarah H. Roney, Olanike Olaomo, Oliver Chapman, and Carlos A. Fernández are graduate fellows. Michael Chang is the associate director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia Institute of Technology.
2024-05-31

Our paper investigating structural & identity-based barriers to participation in natural resource management has been accepted to @cscw 2024. ✨

We discuss sociotechnical considerations to design & integrate digital technologies toward nurturing equitable and sustainable futures of work in development contexts.

w/ Shivani Mehta (IIT Delhi), @neha and Aaditeshwar Seth (IIT Delhi)

2024-04-26

Join our online-only panel at #chi2024 discussing sustainabilities and HCIs from the Global South’s perspective. Supported by #SIGCHI Sustainability Committee.

Pose questions via t.ly/KynYf

#Sustainability #GlobalSouth #HCI

2024-02-06

#CHI2024 Post-growth HCI workshop deadline: Feb 27

It’s an effort to raise collective, critical consciousness about the economy’s increasing impingement in HCI & integrate post-growth ideas into transformative HCI practices for sustainable & just futures: sites.google.com/view/post-gro

Join us! 🥂

2023-12-18

inviting you to our one-day online-first hybrid workshop, Post-growth HCI: Co-envisioning HCI Beyond Economic Growth at #CHi2024 🐌

submission deadline: Feb 27

check our website for details: sites.google.com/view/post-gro

p.s. our organizing committee is 🔥

join us 💜🥂

#degrowth

@neha

2023-09-20

Our paper "Post-growth Human-Computer Interaction" with @neha and Bonnie Nardi on orienting HCI to after/beyond unjust and unsustainable economic growth politics is now available in the ACM DL: doi.org/10.1145/3624981

We now invite HCI to embrace post-growth ideas, engage, critique, and leverage them to ideate and innovate transformative HCI practices towards technology-mediated just and sustainable change.

#degrowth #hci

Human—Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers have increasingly been questioning computing's engagement with unsustainable and unjust economic growth, pushing for identifying alternatives. {Incorporating degrowth, post-development, and steady-state approaches, post-growth philosophy offers an alternative not rooted in growth but in improving quality of life. It recommends an equitable reduction in resource use through sensible distributive practices where fulfillment is based on values including solidarity, cooperation, care, social justice, and localized development. In this paper, we describe opportunities for HCI to take a post-growth orientation in research, design, and practice to reimagine the design of sociotechnical systems toward advancing sustainable, just, and humane futures. We aim for the critiques, concerns, and recommendations offered by post-growth to be integrated into transformative HCI practices for technology-mediated change.

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