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ACM COMPASS

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*FREE REGISTRATION OPPORTUNITY!* Send us your best t-shirt design for #COMPASS25 in order to win free registration for the conference (open to all). Submit by June 27 for consideration! Read more about the t-shirt design competition here: compass.acm.org/call-for-t-s...

Call for T-Shirt Design – COMPASS

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June 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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ACM COMPASS

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Announcing COMPASS'25 Workshops! Throughout the next few days we'll be posting about the 10 workshops. You can read about all of them here: compass.acm.org/compass-2025... Note: to attend workshops you must register for the conference (deadline: July 8th!)

Accepted Workshops – COMPASS

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June 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM

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ACM COMPASS

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Announcing COMPASS'25 keynotes! We're so excited to host two incredible speakers
Renee Steiber will present "Participatory AI governance as a sustainability goal" and Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar will share "Why Designing with Place Matters in Technology Development"
more @ compass.acm.org/keynote-spea...

June 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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ACM COMPASS

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ACM COMPASS is now on bluesky! #COMPASS25 will be happening next month at the University of Toronto, Canada from July 22-25, 2025. Registration ends July 8th! Find more at: compass.acm.org

COMPASS – The ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

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June 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM

Michael Stead

@michaelstead.bsky.social

Design doesn't always solve. Sometimes it deceives. Sometimes it harms. Sometimes the cost is hidden in the process.

Join our Sun 6th Jul workshop @acm.org #DIS2025 on value creation and destruction in #Design + #HDI mindfluct2025.github.io

Boyeun Lee Leah Chong @chrisspeed.bsky.social Jongmo Kim

May 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM

Michael Stead

@michaelstead.bsky.social

Join us @imaginationlanc.bsky.social in October for our #Masters #MA #DesignFutures course. Learn to #changetheworlds via #Design

www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Lets design #healthy #inclusive #sustainable #technological #ludic worlds together

There's plenty more from where these came from..

April 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Michael Stead

@michaelstead.bsky.social

Registration is NOW OPEN for @acm.org's #COMPASS2025 at University of Toronto - lnkd.in/eFdgDE6v #Sustainability #SustainableSocieties #Computing #Design #HCI #Technology #Data #Place #Policy #Environment #SocialPractice @saysvera.bsky.social @richmondywong.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social 🤖 🌍 🌿

April 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM

Michael Stead

@michaelstead.bsky.social

Love tinkering with tech? Care about peeps and our planet? Check out our #sustainablefutures activities Fri 11th in Morecambe + Sat 12th in Lancaster for #LancasterUniversity's #CampusInTheCity event 🤖🎨🌿

#RePlay #ROBBEtheRobot #RepairLand #EnergyMaster

#TheMakingRooms @imaginationlanc.bsky.social

April 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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Michael Stead

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Final #deadlines for @acm.org Computing and Sustainable Societies COMPASS 2025 conference at University of Toronto

Late-Breaking Works – April 5, 2025 AoE
lnkd.in/eUvTv_Rb

Arts and Demos – April 5, 2025 AoE
lnkd.in/eVMtUPdp

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April 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM

Michael Stead

@michaelstead.bsky.social

Final #deadlines for @acm.org Computing and Sustainable Societies COMPASS 2025 conference at University of Toronto

Late-Breaking Works – April 5, 2025 AoE
lnkd.in/eUvTv_Rb

Arts and Demos – April 5, 2025 AoE
lnkd.in/eVMtUPdp

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April 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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vera khovanskaya

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Upcoming deadlines for @acm.org #COMPASS2025
Doctoral Consortium: 3/21
compass.acm.org/call-for-doc...
Collaboratives: 3/31
compass.acm.org/research-imp...
Arts & Demos: 4/5
compass.acm.org/art-demos/
Posters: 4/5
compass.acm.org/call-for-lat...
Workshops: 4/22
compass.acm.org/call-for-wor...

March 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM

Michael Stead

@michaelstead.bsky.social

Excited for the Sustainability in Design Education Symposium 2025 #TUDelft

Cool theme - What Was Sustainability? The Past Present & Future of Sustainability in Design & its Education

I'm presenting on #DesignPedagogy for #MorethanHuman & #Inclusive #SustainableFutures

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March 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM

Michael Stead

@michaelstead.bsky.social

Latest Deadlines for @acm.org's #COMPASS 2025

Late Breaking Work: 28 Feb
compass.acm.org/call-for-lat...

Art & Demos: 28 Feb
compass.acm.org/art-demos/

Doctoral Consortium: 7 Mar
compass.acm.org/call-for-doc...

Workshops: 22 Apr
compass.acm.org/call-for-wor...

#SustainableSocieties #HCI #Design

February 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM

Michael Stead

@michaelstead.bsky.social

Great to be back in our Design teaching/research lab @imaginationlanc.bsky.social this week and introducing our MA Design Management studes to #DesignFutures.

Some fab #speculativeprototyping emerging.

Looking forward teaching more DF on our new MA -
www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

January 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM

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Michael Stead

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*** Please Share - Extended Call for Papers ***

We have extended the deadline for papers for the @acm.org's COMPASS conference to Jan 31, 2025 -

Full call: compass.acm.org/call-for-pap...

More info: compass.acm.org

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January 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM

Michael Stead

@michaelstead.bsky.social

*** Please Share - Extended Call for Papers ***

We have extended the deadline for papers for the @acm.org's COMPASS conference to Jan 31, 2025 -

Full call: compass.acm.org/call-for-pap...

More info: compass.acm.org

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January 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM

Michael Stead

@michaelstead.bsky.social

A thing from the futures...

#speculativedesign #prototyping #ideation #making #digitalfabrication #researchthroughdesign #designfutures #sustainablefutures #digitalinnovation #emergingtechnologies #internetofthings #IoT #artificialintelligence #AI

January 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM

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Chris Boyko

@cbimagination.bsky.social

Hearing about the UK #Government's decision to reject compensation for #women hit by changes to the state #pension age reminds us that we celebrated the WASPI movement at our 'Empowering Women Empower Women' exhibition at Sheffield Museums in October 2019 for the Remembering Resistance project:

Exhibit about WASPI women at the 'Empowering Women Empower Women' exhibition in October 2019 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund project, Remembering Resistance.

The entrance to the 'Empowering Women Empower Women' exhibition in October 2019 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund project, Remembering Resistance.

December 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM

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Imagination Lancaster

@imaginationlanc.bsky.social

To complement our Design Management course, we’re thrilled to announce our new MA in Design Futures! Now taking applications for 2025 to explore innovative futures-oriented methods to tackle emergent issues and design for a world of complex challenges tinyurl.com/59n3s52j