[Nettime-bold] PDC 2002 - the Participatory Design Conference

["Erich W. Schienke" <erich@fog.com>]

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"Participation and Design
Inquiring into the politics, contexts and practices of
collaborative design work"

June 23 - 25 2002 - School of Art and Communication,
Malmoe University, Malmoe,  Sweden

Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
In cooperation with IFIP WG 9.1, Computers and Work
Held in conjunction with DIS 2002, Designing Interactive Systems

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Since 1990, the Participatory Design Conferences have
brought together researchers and practitioners from a variety
of disciplines and work traditions, probing the social scope
and practices of design of technology. A core concern has
been to understand how collaborative design processes can be
based on participation of the people affected by the technology
designed.

The involvement of users and the focus on human-centered
design, addressing the design of technology 'through the
interface', were pioneered by contributions to the Participatory
Design Conferences. Debates within the participatory design
community have contributed to the development of a new IT
design field emphasizing simultanously the need for thorough
studies of the context of use, the relevance of an open and
participatory design process, and concern for the political
aspects of the technology in use.

Today the collaborative nature of the design process and the
need to involve a large variety of stakeholders has gained
wider acceptance. At the same time a fundamental uncertainty
concerning the scope and directions for the design of
technology has created a growing interest in innovative
approaches to participation and design.

With the theme Participation and Design, the Participatory
Design Conference 2002 invites researchers, designers and
other practitioners to present inquiries into the politics,
contexts and practices of collaborative design work.
We invite contributions from all design fields such as
architecture, urban planning, engineering, interaction design
and others (such as the fine arts) with a focus on
understanding collaborative design work.

Inquiring into the contexts of use is becoming increasingly
important as part of design work. Ethnographic approaches to
field studies are producing valuable insights into existing and
emerging practices of use, but the transition from what we
learn from studies of work practices and social interactions to
the design of a system, application or other design products
remains poorly explored. Despite a well established literature
on such approaches as contextual inquiry, focus groups and
cooperative prototyping, the potential of participatory
approaches to design oriented practice studies is often
neglected in ethnographic approaches.

Altogether, collaborative design practices, although
widespread, are still not well understood. Design processes
that are open to a large and varied group of participants are
lacking a firm grounding in analysis of empirical studies and
action research. How can the organisation of design processes
in time and space accomodate participation? What roles do
coordinating artifacts play in collaboration? How do design
artifacts serve as bridges or barriers to diverse uesrs, including
users with disabilities? What are the effects of distributed
design processes on patterns of participation?What kinds of
dialogues are possible between distributed design practices vs.
local design practices and national or regional cultures?
How does the local design process relate to the potential global
outreach of the design?

The politics of design must address questions about what can
be and what should be designed. In a user-centered design
process the distinction between the designed artifact, the
context of use and the process of design may become blurred .
Where does the design practice end, and the practice of use
begin? When the technology is becoming tailorable in use,
what is it then relevant to design for? How does participatory
design work allow for redesign and participation in use over
time?


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Participatory Design Conference 2002

Conference Chair -
      Thomas Binder, Interactive Institute, Sweden
      thomas.binder@interactiveinstitute.se

Programme Co-Chairs -
      Judith Gregory, University of Oslo, Norway
      judithg@ifi.uio.no
      Ina Wagner, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
      iwagner@pop.tuwien.ac.at

Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland
Jeanette Blomberg, Sapient Corp., San Francisco, USA
Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway
Jacob Buur, Mads Clauson Institute, Denmark
Debra Cash, New Century Enterprises, Belmont, MA, USA
Todd Cherkasky, Sapient Corp., Chicago, USA
Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Canada
Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milano, Italy
Yvonne Dittrich, Blekinge University of Technology, Sweden
Paul Dourish, University of California-Irvine, CA, USA
Pelle Ehn, Malmoe University, Sweden
Frank Emspak, University of Wisconsin, USA
Susan Evoy, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, USA
Edla Faust Ramos, University of St. Catarina, Brazil
Susana Finquelevich, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Sapient Ltd., London, UK
Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Davydd Greenwood, Cornell University, USA
Joan Greenbaum, City University of New York, USA
Bo Helgeson, Blekinge University of Technology, Sweden
Vidar Hepsoe, NTNU and Statoil Research and Technology, Norway
Finn Kensing, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sarah Kuhn, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Finland
David Levinger, QpassTM, USA
Shirin Madon, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Peter Mambrey, GMD-FIT, Germany
Preben Mogensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Michael Muller, IBM Research, USA
Rob Proctor, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Julian Orr, Work Practice & Technology Associates, CA, USA
Toni Robertson, University of Technology Sidney, Australia
Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham, UK
Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, USA
Stephen Scrivener, Coventry School of Art and Design, GB
Yngve Sundblad, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Abimbola Soriyan, Obafemi University, Nigeria
Susan Leigh Star, University of California, USA
Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University, UK
Maureen Thomas, Cambridge University, UK; Malmoe University, Sweden
Randall Trigg, The Global Fund for Women, USA
Coralee Whitcomb, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, USA
Volker Wulf, Fraunhofer-FIT and Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany


MALMOE

Malmoe is the third largest city in Sweden and it forms together
with the Danish capital Copenhagen, the Oresund-region,
where more than 2.5 million people live and work within one
of the densest metropolitan areas of Northern Europe.

The PDC 2002 will be held at Malmoe University in the
buildings of the School of Art and Communication.
The School of Art and Communication founded on a
'manifesto for a digital Bauhaus for the 21'th century' are
one of the Scandinavian pioneers in new design oriented IT
programmes and the School is also hosting the south Sweden
part of Interactive Institute a new research institute bringing
together artists, designers and engineers in search of new
interactions between people and technology.

With the PDC 2002 we expect to bring together between 200
and 300 researchers and designers working with design of
new technology. Bringing the conference to Scandinavia for
the first time provides an exiting opportunity to enlarge the
European participation and particularly to attract a larger
audience among IT professionals in the Scandinavian countries


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IMPORTANT DATES IN 2002

1 February	Due date for all submissions

15 March	Acceptance notification to authors

1 May 		Due date for Final Proceedings version for all
written submissions

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SUBMISSION INQUIRIES

Thomas Binder. PDC 2002 Conference Chair
thomas.binder@interactiveinstitute.se
Telephone: +46 40 6657 103
Fax: +46 40 6657 360

Judith Gregory, PDC 2000 Program Co-chair
judithg@ifi.uio.no
Telephone: +47 2285 2897
Fax: +47 2285 2401

Ina Wagner, PDC 2002 Program Co-chair
iwagner@pop.tuwien.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 58801 18711
Fax: +43 1 58801 18799

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ALSO OF INTEREST

DIS 2002 (Designing Interactive Systems), London, June 26-28.

ISCRAT (Activity Theory Congress), Amsterdam, June 18-22.
See http://www.psy.vu.nl/iscrat2002/

CSCW 2002, New Orleans, November 16-20.
See http://www.fxpal.com/conferencesworkshops/cscw2002/

DIAC 2002 - Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for
Participation, Action, and Change - CPSR Conference,
Seattle, Washington, May 16-19, 2002.
See  http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02

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  Erich W. Schienke

  Doctoral Student in Science
  and Technology Studies

  Fellow- Center for Ethics
  in Complex Systems

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  110 8th St.
  Troy, NY 12180

  office: Sage Labs - 5502
  email: schiee@rpi.edu
  net: http://www.rpi.edu/~schiee
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