Invitation to contribute: send your proposal before 1 March 2026
This year, we will publish again the State of Responsible Technology report, RIOT 2026, in short. Connected to the theme of TH/NGS 2025—RESIZE<REMIX<REGEN. Publication is planned for early June. Last year, we rebooted that tradition and were very happy with the result, receiving a lot of positive feedback on the publication (have a look at it here).
We launched the first RIOT report in 2017 and published three more editions in the years after. Last year, we restarted it after a short break. RIOT 2026 will be the sixth edition.
We invite everyone, both practitioners, academics, and other professionals, to send in their proposals for articles that relate to the theme (find out more below).
1st step: propose your idea
As we cannot predict the number of articles that will be submitted, and we also want to orchestrate the best possible publications, we will conduct a first-round application process in which we invite you to submit your article idea by 1 March at the latest. We keep that light-weight, so a first title and short description (1/2 A4) will be enough. RIOT is meant to be a publication of interesting articles, featuring a mix of people from academia and practice, and we are not aiming to mimic a complete academic review process. We trust our authors to deliver interesting work.
Based on the first round of entries, we will let you know by 10 March whether we invite you to submit the full article.
If selected, you will be asked to submit a draft article before 15 April. We will send you feedback as soon as possible, on or before 21 April.
Final articles must be send in 15 May.
We invite all participating authors to a launch event at the beginning of June. More on that later.
Theme and format
As we connect this to the last conference, the theme of RIOT 2026 will be RESIZE<REMIX<REGEN:
Against the backdrop of global tech monopolies obsessed with disruption, we propose a different path: resizing our technological ambitions toward the local and tangible, toward things built to last and evolve within communities. We’re remixing existing materials and knowledge—both digital and physical—privileging repair cultures and collaborative making over extractive consumption. Most critically, we want to explore what happens if we push beyond sustainability toward active regeneration, and create things that restore rather than deplete?
We invite makers, designers, and thinkers to reimagine the creation of things through deliberate restraint, mindful reuse, and regenerative practice
RESIZE; scale, enoughness, and slowing down
REMIX: mashups, play, and cultural hacking
REGEN: regeneration, about repair, nature, healing systems
Format contributions
We are open to different formats, from a (short) essay, an op-ed, an academic paper, a pictorial, an annotated immersive experience, etc.
We specifically invite workshop hosts at the conference to build on their experiences. We can imagine different forms: using the topic and learnings for a new article, or presenting more of a report and the workshop’s learnings.
We also welcome adapting existing articles, provided they are not direct copies.
So in short:
- Feel invited to send in your ideas for an article
- We will be in contact with all the authors we like to invite to sync the idea
- Andrea and Iskander will be the editors
And the timeline:
- Send in your proposal for an article before the end of 1 March.
- Notification Selection to contribute before 10 March.
- Send a draft article by 15 April.
- Feedback on draft as soon as possible, 21 April at the latest.
- Final articles must be sent in before 15 May.
- Launch the RIOT 2026 at a special event at the beginning of June.
Submit your proposal
Send in your proposal via this form, with the following elements:
- What is the (preliminary) title of your contribution?
- Can you describe in max 1/2 A4 what it is about and what the intended format of the piece is?
- Who are the authors