[PHILOS-L] CFP (ICSR 2026, London) - Special Session - Relational Futures. Sustainable Socio-Techno-Ecologies for Human–Robot Co-Existence
Luisa Damiano
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Special Session @ICSR 2026 (London, 1-4, July, 2026)
https://icsr2026.uk/https://icsr2026.uk/special-sessions/
Relational Futures. Sustainable Socio-Techno-Ecologies for Human–Robot Co-Existence
Organisers:
- Luisa Damiano, Antonio Fleres & Hagen Lehmann, IULM University, Milan, Italy
Description:
This
Special Session addresses a question that social robotics can no longer
postpone: how can human– robot co-existence evolve toward forms that
are socially and ecologically sustainable?
We invite contributions
that explore how sustainability can become an operative principle in the
design, implementation, and evaluation of social robots. This includes
work that rethinks foundational dimensions of the field — social
presence, interaction models, behaviours, embodiments, deployment
contexts, techno-social communities, and end-of-life procedures — so
that robots can take part in social and environmental systems in ways
that are responsible, resilient, and future-oriented.
Submissions may
present technical solutions, interaction studies, design strategies,
empirical findings, philosophical explorations, creative prototypes, or
visionary concepts that investigate how sustainable co-existence might
be realised in practice.
We particularly welcome work that expands
how social robotics understands “the social” — not only in human-centred
settings, but as a relational space that extends across multispecies
communities and ecological systems. This includes contributions that
explore how artificial social agents can meaningfully inhabit and
contribute to environments shared with humans, animals, infrastructures,
and living ecologies, acting generatively toward the long-term
flourishing of diverse forms of life. We encourage proposals that
consider how social robots might participate in multispecies relations,
support the resilience of local socio-technical ecosystems that respond
to social and environmental concerns, or engage with broader planetary
processes.
The aim is to outline futures in which social and
ecological sustainability becomes an active force shaping the design,
roles, and integration of the next generation of social robots.
List of Topics:
- Relational futures in social robotics
- Sustainable human–robot co-existence
- Social and ecological sustainability in robot design
- Rethinking social presence under sustainability constraints
- Sustainable interaction models and behaviours
- Multispecies and ecological perspectives in social robotics
- Techno-social communities and long-term robot integration
- End-of-life procedures and circularity in robotic ecosystems
- Environmental impacts of social robots across contexts
- Social robots in collective, urban, domestic, and multispecies environments
- Philosophical and ethical frameworks for sustainable social robotics
- Creative and speculative approaches to sustainable human-robot co-existence
- Visionary concepts for a sustainable diffusion of social robots
| Deadline | 15 Feb 2026 |
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