[chisigmail] Call for Participation :: Industry Day at Participatory Design 2010

[penny hagen]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION :: INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES & PITCHFEST

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Industry Day at PDC 2010 : supporting collaboration between research and practice in the participatory design of products, services and systems.

Industry Day, December 2nd
The 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference
29 November – 3rd December 2010
Sydney, Australia 
www.pdc2010.org @pdcSydney #pdcsyd

Participation by people in the design of the systems they use is integral to the way we do business, support civic engagement, collaborate and connect with  clients, constituents and community. The Participatory Design Conference is an important venue for international discussion of the collaborative, social and political dimensions of technology innovation and use. Join us for for the first ever Industry Day bringing together researchers and practitioners around issues of design, technology and participation.

Participate: 
We are excited to invite submissions from industry practitioners across commercial, government and not-for-profit sectors to present as part of the special industry track. We also encourage practitioners who are working with participatory methods or interested in introducing such approaches to attend, learn, share and collaborate around the topic of participation and methods for co-designing where ‘users’ become active participants. Participants will have the opportunity to hear practitioners from various fields report on new research, methods and approaches. For researchers and practitioners from not-for-profit sectors there is also an opportunity to pitch your participatory concepts to our panel of industry judges at PDC PitchFest.

We are now seeking submission for: 

Case study presentations that report on the use of participatory design (PD) methods, tools, and/or practices within commercial, non-profit and governmental organisations. 

The PDC Pitch Fest where representatives from not-for-profit and academic sectors “pitch” design ideas to ‘industry’ in a short, lively format. Judges pick receives $prize towards further promotion of the concept.

For more details please see the Submission Guidelines or visit www.pdc2010.org/industry for more info

Submissions Due: August 13 2010 
Notifications Due: Late September

Enquiries to industry at pdc2010.org

What is Participatory Design? 
Participatory Design is a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses, services and social institutions more responsive to human needs. A central tenet of Participatory Design is the direct involvement of people in the co-design of things and technologies they use. 

Participatory Design has its roots in the Scandinavian labour movement of the 70’s and over the years has broadened its impact to areas such as health care, international development, civic engagement, local government, education, communications, agile software development, new media, architecture, and the arts. Methods that are becoming common in industry today such as co-operative prototyping, future workshops and scenarios had their origins in early Participatory Design research. 

The Participatory Design conference 
PDC is an international conference for research on participatory design of systems, services and products. The conference has been held every two years since 1990 and it attracts over 300 researchers and practitioners from around the world. This year PDC is in the Southern Hemisphere for the first time and will be hosted by the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.          


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