LIMITS 2026

Call For Contributions

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 (1) papers to be peer-reviewed, presented and published in the proceedings (as in previous years) and (2) alternative contributions, stories and other formats.

Call for Papers

We welcome scholarship by researchers, engineers, designers, and artists who are investigating and/or (re)designing computing systems in ways that engage with pressing ecological and social issues and crises.

The body of the paper should be a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 10 pages, with an unlimited number of pages allowed for references. Reviewing will be non-blind; authors should include their names and contact information and reviews will include reviewer names.

All papers will be made freely available on the workshop website and post-workshop proceedings will be published on arXiv.org. Copyright will remain with the authors.

Call for Alternative Contributions

We invite you to propose your own contributions or experiences. Whether you'd like to facilitate a session, share art or stories, have a conversation about a particular topic, or you’d like to contribute something completely unique, we will work with you to make the right space in the programme.

Alternative contributions will feature in open space sessions during the conference. Suggested alternative submission format: a short description over email, a sketch, a poem, a voicenote, or a conversation with Oliver.

If you have a partial or whole idea for an alternative contribution, get in touch with Oliver Bates (oliver@fractals.coop) with “LIMITS ALTCON” in the email subject.

Key Dates

• Abstract submission deadline: March 17th 2026, 11:59 pm AoE
• Paper submission deadline: March 24st 2026, 11:59 pm AoE
• Alternative contributions deadline: May 1st 2026
• Paper reviews available: May 15th 2026
• Camera ready deadline: June 1st, 2026
• LIMITS Workshop: June 23-25, 2026

Paper Submissions

Register and submit papers at this site. (If you have any issues with the submission site, please email Christoph Becker.)

Papers should adhere to the following guidelines:

• Papers should be in ACM double-column format, using the most recent template, but without ACM copyright information.
• You achieve this by using

  samples/sample-sigconf.tex

  from the downloaded archive as a base for your paper, and modify the header as follows:

                          %% Rights management information.  This information is sent to you
                          %% when you complete the rights form.  These commands have SAMPLE
                          %% values in them; it is your responsibility as an author to replace
                          %% the commands and values with those provided to you when you
                          %% complete the rights form.
                          \setcopyright{none}
                          \settopmatter{printacmref=false}
                          \acmDOI{}
                          \acmISBN{}
  
                          %% These commands are for a PROCEEDINGS abstract or paper.
                          \acmConference[LIMITS '26]{12th Workshop on Computing within Limits}{June 23--25, 2026}{Online}
                      

  You can further remove the CCS concepts from your submission by commenting out the CCSXML and \ccsdesc lines.
• The body of the paper should be a minimum of 5 pages and a maximum of 10 pages, with an unlimited number of pages allowed for references.

Reviewing will be non-blind; authors should include their names and contact information and reviews will include reviewer names.

All papers will be made freely available on the workshop website and post-workshop proceedings will be published on arXiv.org. Copyright will remain with the authors.