PDC 2012 16/10/2012
Matt recently attended the Participatory Design Conference (PDC 2012) which took place at Roskilde University in Denmark. He was there to preseent the research and initial findings of his PhD at the PDC Doctoral Consortium which took a different format from previous years. For 2012 students were split into groups of six and paired with a senior academic or researcher. Each student had 45 minutes to present and discuss their work. Participatory designer Joan Greenbaum, from City University of New York, led Matt’s team. You can read Matt’s paper hereParticipatory Design Conferences (PDC) have been held every two years since 1990 and have formed an important venue for international discussion of the collaborative, social, and political dimensions of technology innovation and use. PDCs bring together a multidisciplinary and international group of software developers, researchers, social scientists, managers, designers, practitioners, users, cultural workers, activists and citizens who both advocate and adopt distinctively participatory approaches in the development of information and communication artifacts, systems, services and technology. A central concern has always been to understand how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. The conference theme for PDC 2012 was: Embracing New Territories of Participation.
