Computing within LIMITS: June 23-25, online, free
Christoph Becker
Dear all,
we are exactly one week away from this year’s Computing within LIMITS (June 23-25) and the program is up at https://computingwithinlimits.org/2026/#program.
LIMITS this year will include an interactive storytelling session with Prof Bonnie Nardi: “How LIMITS came to be: A personal journey”.
LIMITS concerns the role of computing in human societies situated in a world of planetary boundaries and limits, such as limits of extractive logics, limits to a biosphere’s ability to recover, limits to our knowledge, or limits of technological solutions to societal issues. As an interdisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners, and scholars, we seek to reshape and orient the broader computing research agenda, grounded by an awareness that contemporary computing research is embedded in finite socio-ecological conditions and must reckon with ecological limits in general, and climate- and climate justice-related limits in particular. LIMITS 2026 solicited submissions that move us closer towards computing that supports ecological and just futures for diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres.
LIMITS 2026 is online-first, hybrid, accessible, free, with regional hubs participating in a global event in which you can join for free, publish for free, and get to interact with your regional community (if you join one of the hubs) and with people all over the world (esp in the breakout sessions, open spaces, and chat). This year, at least ten LIMITS hubs in eight countries will take place: Vancouver, Toronto, Boulder, Brussels, Grenoble, Strasbourg, Potsdam, Milan, Oslo, Gothenburg.
Please register!
Greetings from the chairs -
Christoph Becker
Daniel Pargman
Oliver Bates
Prof Christoph Becker
he/him
Professor, Faculty of Information
Fellow, SDG Scholars Academy
Lead, Just Sustainability Design lab
University of Toronto
Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/insolvent
