Home CoDPA 2025

This 9th edition of the CoPDA workshop aims to explore the intersection of sustainability and cultures of participation in diverse contexts. As participatory cultures become central to addressing complex global challenges (as defined by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals), they require robust sustainability frameworks to ensure their long-term viability. This workshop will examine how environmental, social, economic, technological, and cultural sustainability principles can inform and enhance participatory systems by supporting community-driven design with end-user development. Participants will engage in interactive sessions to identify and discuss strategies for fostering evolution, adaptability, and educational innovation within cultures of participation. The participants will be able to ground, present, and highlight practical frameworks and real-world case studies, focusing on how sustainable participation can amplify collective creativity in coping with wicked problems.

The workshop hopes to attract submissions from researchers and practitioners from various backgrounds and communities, such as designers and users of socio-technical environments, AI researchers, learning scientists, and educators to explore the following fundamental issues:

• Identifying and integrating sustainability principles into design processes.
• Supporting ongoing engagement through meta-design and digital tools.
• Exploring the role of emerging technologies (specifically related to AI and LLMs) in fostering sustainable participation.
• Exploring how involving users in the adaptation of design tools through EUD can help ensure these tools better support sustainability goals.
• Investigating how educational programs and courses can shape visions and scenarios of sustainable communities, helping to anticipate both desired and undesired outcomes.
• Examining what sustainable online communities can learn from the enduring qualities and behaviors of natural systems, like insect colonies and the climate.