Post-Growth HCI: Some Reflections and a Call to Action
Vishal Sharma, Bonnie Anna Nardi, Neha Kumar · interactions · 2025
C OMMEN TA RYhow HCI can orient to post-growth futures.The paper was an attempt to lay down the foundation to critically reflect on how to liberate HCI and the larger computing discipline from the growth paradigm.It took four years of rejected papers at three consecutive CHI conferences for us to make a compelling case for post-growth and its relevance to HCI.Some specific critiques repeatedly came up during the reviews.In this article, we provide responses to doubts, misunderstandings, and reservations that we could not include in the TOCHI paper.We conclude with a call to action for the HCI community to embrace postgrowth philosophy and collectively