Workshops Monday 6th. Oct
There are still places left for some of these workshops and the tutorial. Please contact the organizers by email to receive instructions/codes for participation.
Below you find a list with the events of the day for conference and pre-conference activities. For further information about each event listed, please use the links. Here you will get to know about the organizers, activities during the event, requirements for participation (e.g. a position paper or other requirement). If you are interested in participating in a pre-conference event or have questions about a workshop or design challenge session, please get in touch with the contact person(s) for the specific event.
The time slots allocated are preliminary and might be subject to changes.
Tutorial
1/2 day (8:30-12:00)
We are proud to present that Toni and Jesper will lead the tutorial for PDC'14.
This tutorial will introduce participants to some of the fundamental concepts and commitments of Participatory Design, explaining where these have come from and why they are so important to us.
Toni Robertson
Toni Robertson, is Professor of Interaction Design at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is a specialist in the study of human practice and technology design, and the application of qualitative and participatory research and design methods. Her research focuses on understanding and designing the interaction between people, their activities and technology, and the issues surrounding the use of technology in actual work and social settings.
Jesper Simonsen
Jesper Simonsen, is Professor of Participatory Design at Roskilde University. His research interests include Participatory Design, and offering theories and methods for IT design in an organizational context. Recent publications include Simonsen et al., eds., Design Research: Synergies from Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2010) ; Simonsen and Robertson, eds., Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design (Routledge, 2012); Simonsen et al., eds., Situated Design Methods (MIT Press, 2014).
"Love & e-Waste"
Full day (8:30 - 17:00)
Abstract: This workshop focuses on how the notion of love can help explore and define participatory strategies targeted at dealing with issues surrounding e-waste. In particular, we are interested in discovering how Participatory Design practice can offer ways of transforming people’s relationships with e-waste from negative affective relationships into positive ones through engagement, co- creation, and group envisioning. The workshop focuses particularly on existent e-waste, accepting it as an (unfortunate) outcome of current production strategies in need of change.
Website: http://loveinewaste.wordpress.com/
Organized by: Thomas James Lodato, Daria Loi.
Contact: Thomas Lodato ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
"Analyzing the politics of PD: a conceptual investigation"
Full day (8:30 - 17:00)
Abstract:
This workshop discusses power, participation and the politics of PD. It invites participants to use their own experiences with and material from PD projects for exploring the political dimension of PD. Their PD experiences will be explored collaboratively with the aim of arriving at a deeper and more specific understanding of what the users participate in and how they can recognize their influence in the design result. This exploration will be supported by a set of concepts that have proved helpful in understanding the politics of PD: power, decision-making, and participation. The conceptual framework we propose has been inspired by Schön’s notion of ‘design moves’ and by Alfred Schütz’ concept of choice. In design – as in certain situations in everyday life – we make choices and select among them, with every design move closing some choices whilst opening others. Understanding this dynamic is important for recognizing what users actually participate in: creating choices, selecting a choice, materializing a choice, ‘seeing’/evaluating the result of a choice. Analyzing how choices are opened and closed and who participates in decision-making as an element of participatory design practice leads to a more precise understanding of power issues.
Website: http://www.pdcpolitics.no
Organized by: Tone Bratteteig, Ina Wagner.
Contact: Ina Wagner (
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“Infrastructuring, collaboration and evolving socio-material practices of changing the world”
1/2 day (8:30-12:00)
Abstract: The workshop will examine issues around emerging participation in (re-)designing technological and/or societal infrastructures. Contributions should provide cases and/or methodological reflections on connecting ongoing social or professional practices involving infrastructure usages with emerging and/or participatory processes of changing/improving those infrastructures. Contributions may provide an analytical perspective or methods/tools to stimulate and support processes and activities of infrastructuring.
Website: http://www.cscw.uni-siegen.de/pdc2014ws/
Organized by: Claus Bossen, Andrew Clement, Carl Di Salvo, Yvonne Dittrich, Pelle Ehn, Helena Karasti, Volkmar Pipek
Contact: Volkmar Pipek (
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“Design Anthropology in Participatory Design: From Ethnography to Anthropological Critique”
1/2 day (8:30-12:00)
Abstract: In this workshop we explore the opportunities of ethnography and design anthropology in Participatory Design (PD) as an approach to design in an increasingly global and digital world. Traditionally, ethnography has been used in PD to research real-life contexts and challenges, and as ways to involve people in defining user-needs and design opportunities. As the boundaries between physical, digital and hybrid spaces and experiences become increasingly blurred, so do conventional distinctions between research and design. This half-day workshop invites participant to discuss and explore opportunities of using design anthropology as a holistic and critical approach to societal challenges, and a way for anthropologists and designers to engage in design that extends beyond the empirical.
Organized by: Rachel Smith, Mette Kjaersgaard
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/
Contact: Rachel Smith (
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“Co-Design in Action: Solving a Namibian Unemployment Challenge with Service Design Approach and Stakeholders”
1/2 day (8:30-12:00)
Abstract: This is a proposal to organize during Participatory Design Conference a workshop for PDC participants and Namibian stakeholders addressing a challenge related to unemployment in Namibia. The main goal of the workshop is to ideate diverse possible service solutions to this challenge collaboratively with different stakeholders. This workshop aims to create new ideas for unemployment challenge through service design approach, which has been successfully used in the SINCO laboratory. The outcome will be a service prototype which will be shared with the wider PDC community.
Organizer: Essi Kuure
Website:http://pdcsinco.wordpress.com/
Contact: Essi Kuure (
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“Co-Design in Action with Children: Using Service Design Approach to Solve a Namibian Reading Culture Challenge”
1/2 day (13:30-17:00)
Abstract: This is a proposal to organize during Participatory Design Conference a workshop for PDC participants and Namibian and international children addressing a challenge related to reading culture in Namibia. The main goal of the workshop is to ideate different possible service solutions to this challenge collaboratively. This workshop aims to create new ideas for reading challenge through service design approach, which has been successfully used in the SINCO laboratory. The outcome will be a service prototype which will be shared with the wider PDC community.
Organizer: Essi Kuure
Website: http://pdcsinco.wordpress.com/
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“Evaluation, sustainability and long-term effects of Participatory Design projects”
1/2 day (13:30-17:00)
Abstract: This workshop aims to engage scholars and practitioners interested in user involvement in sharing experiences and reflections upon evaluation, sustainability and long-term effects of Participatory Design (PD) projects. Despite having ‘people’ as core interest, PD projects rarely venture into systematic evaluation of what the involved parties gained, how to ensure sustainability of initiatives beyond a project, or assessing long-term effects. Many PD projects aim to design a technology, provide a proof-of-concept, or assess a method or technique for involving people in design processes. While these are all laudable aims, we believe attention to evaluation, sustainability and long-term effects could provide fruitful feedback on these issues as well as further ensure that PD initiatives last beyond the singular project through acquired skills of participants and in the organization. Through this workshop, we aim to spur discussions and reflections upon gains, sustainability and long-term effects that can strengthen the lasting outcomes of PD initiatives.
Organized by: Claus Bossen, Christian Dindler, Volkmar Pipek, Julia Garde
Website: http://www.native.dk/pdc14/
Contact: Christian Dindler (
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Co-Located Event: "Participatory Networks Event"
Full day
Abstract: We invite you to learn and debate about how communities can build and maintain locally-oriented telecommunications networks and services for themselves. At our Participatory Networks Event in Namibia, practitioners will share their experience and expertise in creating and sustaining telecommunications and Internet services for people in Africa, and elsewhere, who cannot access national cable and mobile services, due to their remoteness or access costs. They will inspire you to consider opportunities for network connectedness in, and for, southern Africa, equip you with the knowledge to understand, design, implement and sustain these, and stimulate you to think about what participating in technology design really means. Whether you work for the government, a private or non-profit organisation or are an interested student, academic or citizen, you will learn about real-world practices in community networks and debate ideas about participating in these. The event is co-located with the 13th International Participatory Design Conference PDC’14, which brings some of the world’s leading design experts to Africa for the first time and who can bring their insight into philosophical issues of participation to the real-world contexts of low-cost telecommunications.
Organized by: Nic Bidwell, Carlos Rey-Moreno
Website: http://nicbidwell.me/participatory-networks-event/
Contact: http://nicbidwell.me/contact-nic/
