Workshop at the Participatory Design Conference 2010 16/08/2010
UCHD are running a workshop at the Participatory Design Conference 2010 in Sydney, Australia. Simon, Dan and Pete from UCHD will be running the workshop with Eva Brandt and Lone Malmborg from Denmark.
Participatory Design (PD) is a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses, 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. UCHD use participatory methods in their work so we wanted to speak to other designers and share their experiences of working within health and social care.
Our workshop is about:
“Participatory Design with Health & Social Care Institutions”
PD has much to offer in the reconfiguration of health & social care to cope with changing demographics and ageing populations. However, these domains offer distinctive challenges for PD. For example:
- how to fully involve participants who may have limited capabilities;
- how to influence large institutions where positivist approaches to knowledge and research may predominate;
- how to relate to the interests of, and existing power relations between patients, health and care workers, taxpayers, insurers and private owners;
- how to operate within formalised frameworks for ethical regulation.
This workshop will explore the pragmatics of conducting participatory design activities in the Health & Social Care Sectors.
The workshop provides an exciting opportunity to:
- share experiences and stories of designing in and with the healthcare institutions;
- reflect on recent and ongoing design activity within health and social care;
- contribute to the production of the ‘way forward’ for PD in Health & Social care.
Participation
To participate in the workshop, please send a 2-4 page story about your PD activities in health & social care, concentrating on your experience, the challenges faced and how you did/did not overcome them to hello@uchd.org.uk.
Downloads:
- PDC 2010 workshop outline;
- Example stories of UCHD’s PD activities;
- Example stories of IT University of Copenhagen’s PD activities.
Deadline for papers is September 20th
Notification of acceptance by September 24th
Early registration deadline for the conference is October 1st
For details on the conference and registration, see the conference website.
