Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21428/bf6fb269.6b027e1a
Shreya Paudel, S. Loos, R. Soden
{"title":"Towards the Development of an Anti-Colonial Critique of Climate and Disaster Risk Models","authors":"Shreya Paudel, S. Loos, R. Soden","doi":"10.21428/bf6fb269.6b027e1a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.6b027e1a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151168,"journal":{"name":"Ninth Computing within Limits 2023","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117096325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21428/bf6fb269.6af396ff
Thibault Pirson, Louis Golard, D. Bol
{"title":"Evaluating the (ir)relevance of IoT solutions with respect to environmental limits based on LCA and backcasting studies","authors":"Thibault Pirson, Louis Golard, D. Bol","doi":"10.21428/bf6fb269.6af396ff","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.6af396ff","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151168,"journal":{"name":"Ninth Computing within Limits 2023","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123175503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21428/bf6fb269.e48629e9
Six Silberman
{"title":"Information systems practice for the age of consequences","authors":"Six Silberman","doi":"10.21428/bf6fb269.e48629e9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.e48629e9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151168,"journal":{"name":"Ninth Computing within Limits 2023","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123611534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21428/bf6fb269.541455de
Esta Bhardwaj, H. Qiao, Christoph Becker
Current computing methods addressing climate change employ open data platforms, interactive maps, and predictive modeling to support policy analysis, evaluate effects of policies, and support information access. These data exploration and analysis tools carry beautiful visions, including helping people better understand their cities, making communities’ challenges transparent, and facilitating systematic approaches to decision making for sustainability issues. They are also limited, and the reality they partake in turns out to be more nuanced. The tools that help us to get to know a city through ∗ Both authors contributed equally to this research.
{"title":"Pathways to urban sustainability: Design perspectives on a data curation and visualization platform","authors":"Esta Bhardwaj, H. Qiao, Christoph Becker","doi":"10.21428/bf6fb269.541455de","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.541455de","url":null,"abstract":"Current computing methods addressing climate change employ open data platforms, interactive maps, and predictive modeling to support policy analysis, evaluate effects of policies, and support information access. These data exploration and analysis tools carry beautiful visions, including helping people better understand their cities, making communities’ challenges transparent, and facilitating systematic approaches to decision making for sustainability issues. They are also limited, and the reality they partake in turns out to be more nuanced. The tools that help us to get to know a city through ∗ Both authors contributed equally to this research.","PeriodicalId":151168,"journal":{"name":"Ninth Computing within Limits 2023","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122648034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21428/bf6fb269.80fa33f5
Jen Liu
Intermittent infrastructures are often described as infrastructures that are not always on or accessible. In the face of climate change, infrastructures are facing increased challenges regarding intermittency. As the LIMITS community shifts to investigating and designing transitional systems— computing systems centered around sustainability and climate justice—understanding intermittency and its relations to infrastructure is necessary. In this paper, I use the lens of intermittency to examine infrastructures across southeast Louisiana, where stronger and more frequent hurricanes, increased Clooding and coastal land loss can cause disruptions in infrastructures. Drawing on this case study and existing work in networking research, infrastructure studies, and the LIMITS community, I propose key dimensions to examine intermittency for future research within the LIMITS community.
{"title":"Unpacking IntermittencyLiving with Infrastructures in Southeast Louisiana","authors":"Jen Liu","doi":"10.21428/bf6fb269.80fa33f5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.80fa33f5","url":null,"abstract":"Intermittent infrastructures are often described as infrastructures that are not always on or accessible. In the face of climate change, infrastructures are facing increased challenges regarding intermittency. As the LIMITS community shifts to investigating and designing transitional systems— computing systems centered around sustainability and climate justice—understanding intermittency and its relations to infrastructure is necessary. In this paper, I use the lens of intermittency to examine infrastructures across southeast Louisiana, where stronger and more frequent hurricanes, increased Clooding and coastal land loss can cause disruptions in infrastructures. Drawing on this case study and existing work in networking research, infrastructure studies, and the LIMITS community, I propose key dimensions to examine intermittency for future research within the LIMITS community.","PeriodicalId":151168,"journal":{"name":"Ninth Computing within Limits 2023","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116334447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21428/bf6fb269.b4704652
Fieke Jansen, Merve Gulmez, B. Kazansky, Narmine Abou Bakari, Claire Fernandez, Harriet Kingaby, J. Mühlberg
{"title":"The Climate Crisis is a Digital Rights Crisis: Exploring the Civil-Society Framing of Two Intersecting Disasters","authors":"Fieke Jansen, Merve Gulmez, B. Kazansky, Narmine Abou Bakari, Claire Fernandez, Harriet Kingaby, J. Mühlberg","doi":"10.21428/bf6fb269.b4704652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.b4704652","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151168,"journal":{"name":"Ninth Computing within Limits 2023","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134339227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21428/bf6fb269.a317d18f
M. Stojanov, D. Pargman, M. Hazas, R. Comber, J. Zapico
Computing within Limits invites considerations of limits and constraints in design practice. We compare two projects which integrate constraints, the reduction of academic air travel and a solar powered internet, to show a distinction between two approaches to arriving at constraints. In the case of reducing academic air travel, the problem which greenhouse gas emissions pose for business-as-usual academic travel is addressed by proposing constraints on future flying. Constraints in the Flight project can be understood as a process of commensuration, of comparing that which is to be constrained according to a common metric. This gives rise to a future of academic travel understood in relation to CO2 emissions and reduction targets. In the second case, we have explored the solar internet as a specific way to introduce constraints in the context of the rising electricity use associated with internet infrastructure. In the Solar Internet project, constraints have been approached relationally and iteratively, in reconfigurations of internet use practices and design practices, including the solar internet imaginary and the scale of battery and power supply. We compare these two approaches, drawing on vocabulary from Sociology of Quantification and Science and Technology Studies, to help articulate their respective implications, while also acknowledging what they have in common, e.g. the ability to expand the frame of what is made relevant for design practice. The case of the Flight project suggests that constraints as a process of commensuration can be fruitful when pursuing a unified future, intervening over time with a trajectory towards a quantifiable target. On the other hand, when trying to account for indirect effects and the future as multiple, the introduction of constraints can better be understood as con-figurations, with a future negotiated iteratively in design practice. Rather than thinking about constraints as essentially requiring one or the other approach, we suggest that problems and the introduction of constraints may be more or less amenable to either approach at a specific time.
{"title":"How do we arrive at constraints? Articulating limits for computing","authors":"M. Stojanov, D. Pargman, M. Hazas, R. Comber, J. Zapico","doi":"10.21428/bf6fb269.a317d18f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.a317d18f","url":null,"abstract":"Computing within Limits invites considerations of limits and constraints in design practice. We compare two projects which integrate constraints, the reduction of academic air travel and a solar powered internet, to show a distinction between two approaches to arriving at constraints. In the case of reducing academic air travel, the problem which greenhouse gas emissions pose for business-as-usual academic travel is addressed by proposing constraints on future flying. Constraints in the Flight project can be understood as a process of commensuration, of comparing that which is to be constrained according to a common metric. This gives rise to a future of academic travel understood in relation to CO2 emissions and reduction targets. In the second case, we have explored the solar internet as a specific way to introduce constraints in the context of the rising electricity use associated with internet infrastructure. In the Solar Internet project, constraints have been approached relationally and iteratively, in reconfigurations of internet use practices and design practices, including the solar internet imaginary and the scale of battery and power supply. We compare these two approaches, drawing on vocabulary from Sociology of Quantification and Science and Technology Studies, to help articulate their respective implications, while also acknowledging what they have in common, e.g. the ability to expand the frame of what is made relevant for design practice. The case of the Flight project suggests that constraints as a process of commensuration can be fruitful when pursuing a unified future, intervening over time with a trajectory towards a quantifiable target. On the other hand, when trying to account for indirect effects and the future as multiple, the introduction of constraints can better be understood as con-figurations, with a future negotiated iteratively in design practice. Rather than thinking about constraints as essentially requiring one or the other approach, we suggest that problems and the introduction of constraints may be more or less amenable to either approach at a specific time.","PeriodicalId":151168,"journal":{"name":"Ninth Computing within Limits 2023","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121070367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21428/bf6fb269.a5916a92
Thomas Ollson, Olli Pyyhtinen, Anna Rantasila, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Minna Vigren, Johanna Ylipulli, Nitin Sawhney
{"title":"A User-Centered Lens into Digital Excess: Exploring the Superfluity and Environmental Burden of the Digital World","authors":"Thomas Ollson, Olli Pyyhtinen, Anna Rantasila, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Minna Vigren, Johanna Ylipulli, Nitin Sawhney","doi":"10.21428/bf6fb269.a5916a92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.a5916a92","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151168,"journal":{"name":"Ninth Computing within Limits 2023","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126696331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21428/bf6fb269.9fcdd0c0
R. Comber, E. Eriksson
The environmental impact of computing is significant, distributed, and extensive. In this paper, we examine the extent to which this implies that computing, as an industry and as specific technologies, infrastructures, and practices, can be considered as ecocide. Eco-cide is a proposed crime of environmental damage. A significant movement is underway to register ecocide as the fifth law of the International Criminal Court. We examine the definition of ecocide proposed and evaluate computing across the criteria established. Our intention with this paper is not to provide definitive proof, one way or the other, but to raise the question of the extent to which we can consider, be accountable for, and take responsibility for the environmental harm we create as designers of computing technologies. We argue that the establishment of ecocide as an international crime will have significant effects for computing in how we assume and consume natural resources in the advancement of computing, and that a paradigm shift is needed to recognise and account for nature as an equal participant in computing’s future and development.
{"title":"Computing as Ecocide","authors":"R. Comber, E. Eriksson","doi":"10.21428/bf6fb269.9fcdd0c0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.9fcdd0c0","url":null,"abstract":"The environmental impact of computing is significant, distributed, and extensive. In this paper, we examine the extent to which this implies that computing, as an industry and as specific technologies, infrastructures, and practices, can be considered as ecocide. Eco-cide is a proposed crime of environmental damage. A significant movement is underway to register ecocide as the fifth law of the International Criminal Court. We examine the definition of ecocide proposed and evaluate computing across the criteria established. Our intention with this paper is not to provide definitive proof, one way or the other, but to raise the question of the extent to which we can consider, be accountable for, and take responsibility for the environmental harm we create as designers of computing technologies. We argue that the establishment of ecocide as an international crime will have significant effects for computing in how we assume and consume natural resources in the advancement of computing, and that a paradigm shift is needed to recognise and account for nature as an equal participant in computing’s future and development.","PeriodicalId":151168,"journal":{"name":"Ninth Computing within Limits 2023","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116422521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.21428/bf6fb269.dc071e80
Sarah Cooney
A major goal of the LIMITS community is to actively build a world that respects ecological limits by de-centering the idea of growth as progress, focusing on how technology can be used to create such a world and what technology will look like in this world. Achieving this goal involves taking existing philosophies (e.g., Meadow’s Limits to Growth) and translating them into actionable steps. Often, this requires taking broad philosophies that speak of the world generally and thinking about how they can be operationalized through technology. Imagining a world that exists outside of the current paradigms of unlimited growth and uber consumption can be quite difficult, and figuring out how to actually achieve this kind of world sometimes seems like a herculean task. This paper asks whether large language models, specifically ChatGPT, can be used in service of radically re-imagining our world and the place of technology. There are two primary reasons to ask this question. First, new generative tools like Open AI’s ChatGPT promise to change the way people live and work, and such tools have been born and trained in a "growth as progress" world. It is important to be aware of how these tools portray alternatives to growth-based paradigms. The second reason, is to assess the value of such tools for brainstorming alternative, LIMITS-aligned ways of using computing. This paper looks at seven philosophies that challenge the all-growth status quo, and asks ChatGPT to imagine how computing would be used in worlds in which each paradigm was central. Each response was then analyzed to provide an overview of just how radical ChatGPT’s “imagination” can be.
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