<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 11pt;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="m_-3731793936957649026gmail-docs-internal-guid-16cfe87c-7fff-f6fd-a75d-d1b470fc0e2e" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 11pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 11pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite short submissions to an Online Critical Computing Gathering, to be held on June 24, 2026. You can read the </span><a href="https://criticalcomputing.cc/cfp_online" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">full CFP here</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 11pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This fourth installment of the </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://criticalcomputing.cc/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!uwjKXKSfddDiYfU7Fv1d33eIMOwxVVsjS963O4VaxL89fp7cFDDwGbP1XTCNBYEeIj0bEuu0af8E6cmm9Sx3kY0$" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Critical Computing gathering</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (after events that were part of Aarhus, 4S, and IFDIK in 2025) will continue to experiment with a </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">threaded</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> format: participants will share short, in-progress works that respond to one another before, during, and after the workshop, leading to co-authored or multi-voiced works. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participants prepare a short, exploratory contribution (800–1,200 words, or equivalent media) focused on a term, concept, or problem central to their work in critical computing. These are not expected to be complete papers or fully worked-out arguments. Rather, they are starting threads. We seek provocations, fragments, or in-progress reflections that can be taken up and woven together with others.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 11pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We welcome contributions from scholars, practitioners, artists, designers, technologists, and activists who engage critically with computation in their work. There will be two sessions of the online gathering to accommodate time zones.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 11pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions are due March 31 2026 via this </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZVnZVYvcNgnVwTNSvsNaqkCotLtHfW4DOzKzbkY_iBtIMRg/viewform" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">form</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 11pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please share this call widely with your networks and communities.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 11pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kind regards, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alex, Bono, Daniela, Lucy, Luis, and Nassim a</span></p></span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">--<span> </span></span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-!-…..-!-..…-!-…..-!-…..-!-…..-!-…..-!-…..-!-…..-!-…..-!-<br>Daniela K. Rosner, Professor</div><div dir="ltr">Co-Director, HCDE MS Program <br><div>Sieg Hall, room 409<br><div>Dept. of Human Centered Design & Engineering<br>University of Washington</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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