Call for Participation – Moral Agents for Sustainable Transitions: Ethics, Politics, Design – A one-day workshop @ CHI 2023

Imagine things start engaging us in ethical debate, and demand we regard them as moral counterparts. Such moral agents present a potential new form of human-technology relation, and a new way of driving sustainability – with autonomous systems that transparently state and deliberate their embedded values with users, or speak for otherwise voiceless stakeholders like future generations, species, or ecosystems. 

To jointly articulate key questions and possible futures of moral agents for sustainable transitions, this one-day CHI 2023 workshop convenes HCI, AI, behaviour change, and critical and speculative design researchers and practitioners. 

The workshop invites participants to bring position pieces and creative artefacts, and will mix keynotes by Peter-Paul Verbeek and Marc Hassenzahl with short presentations, and a mini barcamp with design fiction to imagine and reflect on opportunities and issues of moral agents, which will form the basis of an edited book. 

Interested researchers should submit either a short (up to 1,500 words excluding references) position piece presenting an issue, opportunity, or perspective around moral agents, or an annotated creative artefact (speculative or realised). Accepted participants can join either a remote 5-hour session in May 2023, or an in-person one-day session in Hamburg. Please note that all participants must register for both the workshop at and least one day of the CHI 2023 conference.

## Key information

* Workshop site & submission information: moralagents.org 

* Submissions due: February 23, 2023 (AOE)

* Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2023

* Workshop: face-to-face – April 23/28, 2023 (tbc); remote: May 2023 (tbd)