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#Gaik 2025 (another go at 2025 abstract)
Prompted by this request, here’s a second go at an abstract for a 2025 critical computing conference (shorter than this one). Precursors and implications of #Gaiak’s holistic Ecological Computing Manifesto In this paper, we analyse the precursors and implications of #Gaiak’s holistic Ecological Computing Manifesto. This manifesto stemmed from #Gaiak’s reputation as an ecohacker with […]
#Gaik 2025 (first go at 2025 abstract)
January 19, 2015
Prompted by this request, here’s my first go at an abstract for a 2025 critical computing conference. (the editors rightly say that it is too long and not scientific enough so another one on the way). This paper reviews the work of the celebrated ecohacker artist known only as #Gaiak. Beginning in 2015 with individual […]
2025 fictional abstracts – role of computing in sustainable development
December 11, 2014
This is such an interesting challenge. Ten years is within research horizons, close enough not to get distracted by hoverboards but far enough away to think outside the box. I’m going for a positive vision, then trying to work out the steps to get there. Imagining all my current research has bourne fruit is […]
Ethics and sustainability
October 5, 2014
A student asks a great question: Why does the Polytechnic focus on a sustainable viewpoint in everything it does, rather than an ethical one? We spend a few weeks discussing ethics in Software Engineering, but acting ethically and in the interests of society is a cultural shift, not academic knowledge. Surely sustainable practices would flow […]
Top three readings for Sustainable HCI
May 15, 2014
At the sustainable HCI workshop at CHI this month we each agreed to contribute our top three “must reads” for Sustainable HCI (spoiler, none of these papers even mention Sustainable HCI). Of course, I’d recommend my own books and other writings, but beyond that, here are my three (current) “must reads”. 1. Sigrid Stagl’s […]
Computing for Sustainability 
February 11, 2015
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