Engaging Human and Non-Human Perspectives in Crisis Resilience workshop, OZCHI 2025, University of Sydney, NSW
A workshop bringing together researchers, designers, and practitioners to co-create inclusive, adaptive futures.
As environmental crises grow more complex, from extreme weather to biodiversity loss, our ways of planning and engaging communities must evolve. Traditional consultation often overlooks the voices of ecosystems, animals, and other non-human actors who are also impacted by crisis and change.
This workshop brings together designers, researchers, and practitioners to explore how AI and immersive technologies can foster more inclusive, multispecies approaches to crisis resilience. Participants will experiment with speculative, participatory, and visual methods to imagine futures where humans and non-humans are active collaborators in adaptation and planning.
Through a mix of framing discussions, collaborative mapping, and hands-on speculative design activities, the workshop invites attendees to rethink how technology can enable shared sensemaking, ethical engagement, and ecological awareness.
The outcomes will contribute to an emerging dialogue within Human-Computer Interaction about more-than-human design, participatory AI, and environmental decision-making, with opportunities for collaboration and future research beyond the session.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER | Marcus Foth is a Professor of Urban Informatics in the School of Design at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. For more than two decades, Marcus has led ubiquitous computing and interaction design research into interactive digital media, screen, mobile, and smart-city applications.
Marcus’s work has inspired new ways of thinking about “smart cities” – ones that value relationships, creativity, and ecological awareness over simple efficiency. His approach invites us to imagine futures where cities are designed not just for humans, but for co-existence and co-habitation among species.
About his latest book:
Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities – Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation
co-edited by Sara Heitlinger, Marcus Foth and Rachel Clarke, published by Oxford University Press (2024)
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| Location: | University of Sydney, Business School |
| Start Date: | 29/11/2025 [add to calendar] |
| Start Time: | 1:30pm |
| End Date: | 29/11/2025 |
| End Time: | 5:00pm |
| RSVP By: | Tuesday 11th of November 2025 |
| Cost: | Free |
| Organiser: | University of Sydney |
| Enquiries: | Adrian Wong, adrian.w@sydney.edu.au |
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