  Sustainability has over the past two decades emerged as a key concern in
human-computer interaction, with a much critiqued focus on quantification and
eco-feedback. This approach fits within a modernist framing of sustainability,
treating the environment (and our impact on it) as an externality, reducing it
to a set of simple metrics. While data about the climate impact of our actions
provide an important indication of harm, such data is fragmented and
incomplete, capturing only a partial picture of a very wicked and entangled
problem. My doctoral research departs from this notion of "information will
solve the problem" and through design-oriented explorations of environmental
data such as CO2 emissions from academic flying, I investigate alternative ways
to engage people with environmental data in order to unsettle relations to the
climate impact of our actions and foster care. So far, I have studied this
through design-oriented case studies of data in action, with a specific focus
on interventions aimed at engaging people in social contexts with the carbon
emissions of everyday practices.
