12th Workshop on Computing within Limits
June 23rd-25th 2026 (Online)
Background photo: A close-up picture of a
module of magnetic core memory from around 1960. Toroids are
aligned in a grid and many red and green wires, drive lines, are visible.*
Since 2015, the yearly LIMITS workshop series concerns the role of computing in human societies situated in a world with planetary boundaries and corresponding limits [Nardi et al. 2018]. As an interdisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners, and scholars, this community seeks to reshape the computing research agenda, grounded by an awareness that contemporary computing research is intertwined with ecological limits. LIMITS publishes submissions that move us closer towards computing that supports ecological and just futures for diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres.
LIMITS is a place for a wide range of perspectives and approaches. We welcome contributions from anyone including researchers, engineers, designers, and artists who are exploring computing in ways that engage with pressing ecological and social issues and crises. LIMITS strives to be a place for envisioning technologies and futures ‘otherwise’: a place for work that considers how visions and frameworks of pluriversal design, degrowth and post-growth affect computing and asks how computing can grapple with polycrises, metacrisis, collapse, colonialism and decolonization, equity, justice, and transition design.
For 2026, we are calling for
Key dates:
forthcoming...
forthcoming (and free)
To engage with the LIMITS comunity, please subscribe to our mailing list by sending an email to limits+subscribe@googlegroups.com.
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Paper deadline: late March 2026, tbc
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In 2026, LIMITS is organized by Christoph Becker, Daniel Pargman and Oliver Bates. More soon!
The background photo for LIMITS 2026 by Jan Tobias Muehlberg is licensed under CC BY 4.0
