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. KTH Sustainability Office award money for small (maximum 100 000 SEK, maximum 1 year) interdisciplinary projects, " Environment and sustainability without boundaries " I handed in an application there a few minutes before the May 2 deadline, " Homo Colossus In Real Life (HC-IRL) ", together with co-applicants  Mario Romero (Associate professor in Human-Computer Interaction with focus on Interactive Computer Graphics & Visualization), Jonas Åkerman (environmental researcher and one of Sweden's premier researchers on GHG emissions in general and emissions from air travel in particular) and Per Hasselberg ( Konstfrämjandet /People's Movements for Art Promotion). I have written about Homo Colossus several times on the blog before ( November 2016 , again in November 2016 and in December 2017 ) so instead of explaining what that concept means, I just paste the short project description below (where I explain what the concept means). The project is basica...

. My previous blog post was about a workshop proposal for the upcoming NordiCHI conference , but I'm also part of another workshop proposal for that conference, " Circular thinking in sustainable HCI: Revisiting the link between invention and disposal ". This proposal was spearheaded by Maja van der Velden from the University of Oslo and the workshop is organised together with Alma Leora Culén, Elina Eriksson, Daniel Pargman, Oliver Bates and Miquel Ballester. Both Maja and Oliver participated in our sustainability-themed NordiCHI 2016 workshop and we have discussed the possibility of putting together a workshop for NordiCHI 2018 workshop of quite some time, but it was only at the very end that things actually happened. When Maja took charge, the workshop also changed focused to closer align with her specific research interests . The aim of the workshop is thus to explore circularity as a principle of sustainable HCI. Every new invention should integrate its own disposa...

. I recently submitted a workshop proposal to the upcoming NordiCHI conference , " The Futures of Computing and Wisdom ", together with Elina Eriksson, Rob Comber, Ben Kirman and Oliver Bates ( besides the article I submitted to NordiCHI two weeks earlier). Me and Elina have organised workshops at at the previous two NordiCHI conferences ( 2014 in Helsinki and 2016 in Gothenburg ). This workshop is however  not  a workshop about sustainability, but rather a workshop about Design Fiction (and Futures Studies). As such, it niftily connects to the NordiCHI Future Scenarios track . From our application: This workshop is also designed to complement the Future Scenarios track at NordiCHI (and shares an organiser). That unique track already brings speculation and design fiction to the NordiCHI conference, and this workshop will complement the track by providing a full day for exploring design fiction in shorter formats (abstracts rather than scenarios) and applying this process co...