Post-Workshop Plans

Because participation in the workshop will be based on short expressions of interest rather than formal papers, there will be no proceedings. Instead, our post-workshop efforts will be anchored in the design work produced during the workshop and the conversations that develop around it. During the workshop, one or more organizers will focus on documenting activities and the evolving exhibition space. This documentation will include photographs of prototypes, participant annotations, and collective reflections. Together, these materials will form the basis for multiple outcomes:

The exhibition space itself: The “shared forest” created during the workshop will remain as a material artifact of the event. We will explore possibilities for keeping it on display at CHI for the duration of the conference and for bringing it to other venues or fora afterwards (e.g., as an artwork to be exhibited at conferences such as DIS).

A digital archive of that exhibition: We will digitize the “shared forest” and make it publicly available on the workshop website, ensuring that participants and the broader community can revisit and build upon it afterward.

A portfolio of promising human-technology-forest assemblages: We will document the prototypes produced during the workshop and curate a portfolio annotating them with the lived experiences and HCI knowledge(s) that inspired, guided, or motivated them. The portfolio will constitute a form of intermediate-level knowledge, interweaving consolidated HCI wisdom, novel (and tangible) design avenues, and vivid, situated lived experiences that motivated them.

Beyond these immediate outputs, we intend to disseminate the workshop events and conversations as academic publications, as appropriate, to be critically evaluated after the workshop. For example, we might write a short, lightweight article (e.g., for the interactions magazine) reporting on the workshop activities and highlighting salient insights from the conversations; or, depending on the depth and polish of the design work and underlying reflections, we might produce a pictorial (e.g., to be submitted at DIS) presenting the annotated portfolio. of speculative prototypes and/or reflecting on the workshop format as a method for generative inquiry. Across all these efforts, we will invite participants to be contributors to the extent they wish – either as co-authors or through other forms of acknowledgment. We have an explicit intention of ensuring that credit is shared and that the resulting publications reflect the collective spirit of the workshop. Through these outcomes, we aim to extend the life of the workshop beyond CHI, ensuring that the knowledge generated not only circulates within the conference but also fosters an ongoing community of researchers and practitioners interested in the design of technologies for the human-forest interplay.