ICT4S Zine Jam @ ICT4S 2026 - Call for contributors and contributions

[Oliver Bates]

📓 ICT4S Zine Jam @ ICT4S 2026 (Bern, Switzerland)

We’re excited to host the ICT4S Zine Jam and invite you to explore different ways of doing research on ICT and sustainability.

✨ Three ways to join:

• Pre-conference Zine Jam (online): drop in anytime to make, think, and collaborate.

• Zine Hub at the conference: read, create, fold and experiment.

• Public online Zine Library: contribute to the online Zine library!

You’re welcome with or without an idea! Finished concept, half-formed question, or just curiosity? We’ll help you find collaborators and make it together.

🗓 Dates (overview):
24 Jan – 8 May: Register interest
9 Mar – 8 May: Online Zine Jam
8 May: Zine submission deadline
8 – 12 June: Zines at ICT4S, Bern

🔗 More info: [link to website]

We’d love to have you there.
The ICT4S Zine Collective

[Oliver Bates]

Calling artists, game makers, poets, essay writers, academics, and all creatives who have something to say about digital technology and sustainability!

Join the ICT4S Zine Jam, open until 8 May 2026!

We welcome contributions that conversations that bring perspectives and voices on how we might go about doing tech and sustainability differently, making space for expressions about tech and sustainability  "otherwise".

More info and sign up: https://conf.researchr.org/track/ict4s-2026/ict4s-2026-ict4s-zine

[Oliver Bates]

Hello everyone,

We're still open for contributions for Zines at ICT4S 2026. 

We'd love to hear from you if you'd like to contribute anything about digital technology/ICT and sustainability, no matter the length of contribution. 

We're particularly interested in critical and creative expressions as well as perspectives that don't normally find their way into conference proceedings or discussions. We encourage emergent ideas and unfinished work.

We'll be running a few sessions to talk about the process and meet anyone thinking about contributing - please get in touch with Oliver (o.b...@lancaster.ac.uk) if you'd like to attend.

We'll be printing on demand at the conference, so the zine jam and zine making will continue into late May! 

All zines will be made available at ICT4S 2026 in Bern, Switzerland and online.

Thanks,

Oliver