Addressing Sustainability Through 360 degrees Video Design & Research

New technologies show promise for cultural and environmental sustainability. Yet the processes of production, use, and disposal of digital devices involve the exploitation of natural resources and human labor and have dramatic impacts on social systems and people's lives. This research explores the use of 360 degrees video as a specific technology for sustainability, as well as the sustainability of such technologies in academic research, through a series of case studies. These three cases studies can be taken together as a work of sustainable human-computer interaction as well as multi-sited, multimodal anthropology using research-creation as a method. This research addresses the overall question, How can anthropologists, media makers, and human-computer interaction scholars understand sustainability through their professional practices? This work contributes to the exploration of new technologies for cultural and environmental sustainability as well as to more sustainable technology lifecycles in academic research by examining systemic change at the university level.