HCI and environmental sustainability: the politics of design and the design of politics

By Paul Dourish. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2010

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Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design: Outlining Key Design Strategies and Commitments (2016, background): “Such work asks designers to consider the “political and cultural context” [37] so they might develop effective solutions to large-scale societal problems.”
Mind the theoretical gap: interpreting, using, and developing behavioral theory in HCI research (2013, background): “, social support, social networks), with less emphasis placed on understanding the context with which these individual or interpersonal-level interventions are created and tested [21].”
Sustainably unpersuaded: how persuasion narrows our vision of sustainability (2012, background): “Moreover, the emphasis on behavior change through artifacts and systems neglects other areas or possibilities for design [11, 13].”
Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI (2019, background): “]. While this is politically-motivated work, HCI has tended to avoid making our politics explicit [15, 89]. The result has not been the absence of a politic, but an "implicit neoliberalism" [41, 47]. In this paper, we oﬀer an explicitly political HCI—an anarchistHCI—thatreorientstheﬁeld ar”