[esocialaction] FW: Second Call: Participatory Design Conference 2008 (PDC 2008)

[Dearden, Andrew M]

Second Call-For-Papers (apologize for cross-posting)

The 10th anniversary conference on Participatory Design (PDC 2008):  
Experiences and Challenges
September 30 - October 4, 2008, Bloomington, Indiana, USA http://www.pdc2008.org

Submission deadline (all contribution types): March 15, 2008 We invite submissions of:
- Research papers
- Exploratory papers
- Panels
- Interactive workshops
- Tutorials
- Doctoral consortium
- Artifacts, posters, products, interactive demonstrations
- Participatory art installations

Please visit the web-site for more information on the different contributions that we call for.

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 PD is the direct involvement of people in the co- design of things and technologies they use. Participatory Design Conferences  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.

The conference theme for PDC 2008 is Experiences and Challenges. It will be the 10th PDC and a golden opportunity to reassess the achievements of the PD movement and to consider its future. We invite you to reflect on past experiences and review the important lessons we have learned so as to better meet the new challenges of the future.  
What are the important trends, phenomena, developments, and views on participation and design etc., which in so many different ways challenge our traditions, our experiences and/or the current 'wisdom'  
within the field?

We are proud to announce the two key-note speakers for PDC 2008 - Natalie Jeremijenko and Finn Kensing:

Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience, and precision engineering.  
Jeremijenko's projects-which explore socio-technical change-have been exhibited by several museums and galleries, including the MASSMoCA, the Whitney Museum, and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt. She was appointed in 1999 a Rockefeller Fellow and was recently named one of the 40 most influential designers by I.D. Magazine and one of the inaugural Top 100 Young Innovators by the MIT Technology Review.  
Jeremijenko is the director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at NYU, assistant professor in Art, and affiliated with the Computer Science Dept.

Finn Kensing is one of the world's leading researchers in participatory design. Finn Kensing is associate professor at  at The IT University of Copenhagen where he leads the research group 'Design of organizational IT' . He was honored in 2006 for the best researcher of the year from The IT University. Finn Kensing has a doctorate in participatory design and is currently doing research on participatory design in the healthcare sector. He has received recognition for his research into IT design  which focuses on how IT designers can cooperate with users and their management especially relating to the clarification of goals, formulation of needs, and design of coherent visions for change.