Call for Contributions: LIMITS 2026
Christoph Becker
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: LIMITS 2026
Since 2015, the yearly LIMITS workshop series concerns the role of computing in human societies situated in a world with planetary boundaries and corresponding limits [Nardi et al. 2018]. As an interdisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners, and scholars, this community seeks to reshape the computing research agenda, grounded by an awareness that contemporary computing research is intertwined with ecological limits. LIMITS publishes submissions that move us closer towards computing that supports ecological and just futures for diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres.
LIMITS is a place for a wide range of perspectives and approaches. We welcome contributions from anyone including researchers, engineers, designers, and artists who are exploring computing in ways that engage with pressing ecological and social issues and crises. LIMITS strives to be a place for envisioning technologies and futures ‘otherwise’: a place for work that considers how visions and frameworks of pluriversal design, degrowth and post-growth affect computing and asks how computing can grapple with polycrises, metacrisis, collapse, colonialism and de-colonialization, equity, justice, and transition design.
For LIMITS 2026, we are calling for (1) papers to be peer-reviewed, presented and published in the proceedings (as in previous years) and (2) alternative contributions, stories and other formats.
(1) Call for Papers
We welcome scholarship by researchers, engineers, designers, and artists who are investigating and/or (re)designing computing systems in ways that engage with pressing ecological and social issues and crises.
Papers should be submitted at https://limits2026.hotcrp.com/. The body of the paper should be a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 10 pages, with an unlimited number of pages allowed for references. Reviewing will be non-blind; authors should include their names and contact information and reviews will include reviewer names. All papers will be made freely available on the workshop website and post-workshop proceedings will be published on arXiv.org. Copyright will remain with the authors.
(2) Call for Alternative Contributions
We invite you to propose your own contributions or experiences. Whether you’d like to facilitate a session, share art or stories, have a conversation about a particular topic, or you’d like to contribute something completely unique, we will work with you to make the right space in the programme.
Alternative contributions will feature in open space sessions during the conference. Suggested alternative submission format: a short description over email, a sketch, a poem, a voicenote, or a conversation with Oliver.
If you have a partial or whole idea for an alternative contribution, get in touch with Oliver Bates (oli...@fractals.coop) with “LIMITS ALTCON” in the email subject.
KEY DATES
Abstract submission deadline: March 20th, 2026, 11:59 pm AoE
Paper submission deadline: March 24st 2026, 11:59 pm AoE
Alternative contributions deadline: May 1st 2026
Paper reviews available: May 15th 2026
Camera ready deadline: June 1st, 2026
LIMITS Workshop: June 23-25, 2026