[Air-L] Call for Participation: "(Re)working for Sustainable Futures: Climate Change and Platform Economies"

[ASHIQUE ALI T]

Hi All,

Sharing a workshop call that might be of interest to many in this community.

*Call for Participation: "(Re)working for Sustainable Futures: Climate
Change and Platform Economies" *

We invite researchers, activists, policymakers, and practitioners to join
our interdisciplinary workshop, "(Re)working for Sustainable Futures:
Climate Change and Platform Economies," hosted at ACM COMPASS 2025, to be
held at the University of Toronto, Canada.

*About the Workshop*

>From HCI and CSCW to labour studies and human geography, disciplines are
expanding their scholarly focus to address the increasingly dire
consequences of climate change. At the same time, there is growing
attention being paid to the rise and ubiquity of platform companies across
societal sectors, such as communication, transportation, and work. However,
although climate change and platform economies affect one another, they are
rarely examined in relation to each other. This multi-part workshop aims to
build an interdisciplinary research foundation for critical studies of
climate change and platform economies. Participants will critically engage
with three intersecting themes in discourses on climate change and platform
economies—labour, data, and infrastructure. Through activities such as
lightning talks, mapping exercises, and reflective discussions,
participants will collaboratively develop a living syllabus and a shared
resource database to (re)work and design pathways toward more sustainable
futures. Please submit using the following form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Oux-KWsZOn8klKIDgRwsO1QD6TLOtsxR4AMzH4_omcM/viewform?edit_requested=true>
by
July 01, 2025!

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/climateandplatformeconomies/
<https://sites.google.com/view/climateandplatformeconomies/home>

Workshop Date: July 22, 2025
Venue: Hybrid/ BA 2179 Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University
of Toronto, Canada.

Warmly,

Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat
PhD Student
Faculty of Information
University of Toronto, Canada.