Cultivating Pedagogies for Post-Growth HCI

Abstract

Given the growing global crises caused by the growth economy, there is a pedagogical responsibility to prepare future Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) professionals to embrace uncertainty and question unsustainable ideologies and practices. This workshop creates a space for educators and students to critically reflect on how HCI pedagogy might move beyond “bigger–and-faster” framings and toward practices of sufficiency, repair, and care. Through activities such as co-designing a living syllabus and reimagining evaluation criteria for student work, participants will explore how education can itself function as an infrastructural practice for cultivating post-growth perspectives within HCI. In doing so, this workshop aims to foreground pedagogy as a vital site where post-growth commitments can take root, reorienting the content and practice of HCI toward cultivating socio-ecologically just futures.