PDC 2018 presents 13 interactive workshops (and tutorials): an exciting series of sessions on topics that include reflections, methods, practices and other areas of interest with regard to participative design. These last half a day (morning or afternoon ) or a whole day. Participating in the workshops means that you will actively participate in a topic and enter into a lively debate with other interested parties.

Democracy and participatory design
Co-creating Universal Design hotel rooms Codesigning with public partners: Controversies and agonism

Participatory design processes
Infrastructuring in PD: What does infrastructuring look like? When does it look like that?

Future issues of participatory design
A design anthropology approach to experiential futures and autonomous driving

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The doctoral colloquium is a full-day session intended for PhD students working within the field of Participatory Design (PD). It will provide students with an opportunity to discuss issues of concern to them in their studies and receive extensive feedback from the DC co-chairs, along with a core group of senior participatory design researchers, and other student participants.

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PDC 2018 presents 13 interactive workshops (and tutorials): an exciting series of sessions on topics that include reflections, methods, practices and other areas of interest with regard to participative design. These last half a day (morning or afternoon ) or a whole day. Participating in the workshops means that you will actively participate in a topic and enter into a lively debate with other interested parties.

Democracy and participatory design
Co-creating Universal Design hotel rooms Codesigning with public partners: Controversies and agonism

Participatory design processes
Infrastructuring in PD: What does infrastructuring look like? When does it look like that?

Future issues of participatory design
A design anthropology approach to experiential futures and autonomous driving

Read more about the workshops and tutorials

The doctoral colloquium is a full-day session intended for PhD students working within the field of Participatory Design (PD). It will provide students with an opportunity to discuss issues of concern to them in their studies and receive extensive feedback from the DC co-chairs, along with a core group of senior participatory design researchers, and other student participants.

Read more about the Doctoral Colloquium

PDC 2018 presents 13 interactive workshops (and tutorials): an exciting series of sessions on topics that include reflections, methods, practices and other areas of interest with regard to participative design. These last half a day (morning or afternoon ) or a whole day. Participating in the workshops means that you will actively participate in a topic and enter into a lively debate with other interested parties.

Democracy and participatory design
Giving A Voice Through Design: Adapting Design Methods to Ensure the Participation of People with Communication Difficulties Participatory School Design for Participatory Democracy

Participatory design processes
[CANCELLED] Data Literacy Workshops As Participatory Design Identification as Process in Participatory Design

Future issues of participatory design
Community Driven Design of Living Technologies
PD Manifesto for AI Futures

Urban participation
Avoiding Ecocidal Smart Cities: Participatory Design for More-than-Human Futures Walking, recording and collaborative mapping: how can we advance PD methodology by engaging with heritage?

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PDC 2018 presents 13 interactive workshops (and tutorials): an exciting series of sessions on topics that include reflections, methods, practices and other areas of interest with regard to participative design. These last half a day (morning or afternoon ) or a whole day. Participating in the workshops means that you will actively participate in a topic and enter into a lively debate with other interested parties.

Democracy and participatory design
DESIS Philosophy Talk #6.4 Regenerating Democracy: a Design Contribution

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PDC 2018 presents 13 interactive workshops (and tutorials): an exciting series of sessions on topics that include reflections, methods, practices and other areas of interest with regard to participative design. These last half a day (morning or afternoon ) or a whole day. Participating in the workshops means that you will actively participate in a topic and enter into a lively debate with other interested parties.

Democracy and participatory design
Giving A Voice Through Design: Adapting Design Methods to Ensure the Participation of People with Communication Difficulties Participatory School Design for Participatory Democracy

Participatory design processes
[CANCELLED] Data Literacy Workshops As Participatory Design Identification as Process in Participatory Design

Future issues of participatory design
Community Driven Design of Living Technologies
PD Manifesto for AI Futures

Urban participation
Avoiding Ecocidal Smart Cities: Participatory Design for More-than-Human Futures Walking, recording and collaborative mapping: how can we advance PD methodology by engaging with heritage?

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The Local Participation Session aims to stimulate a dialogue between an international group of experts and local initiatives/organizations that work on participation.

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Chairs: Liesbeth Huybrechts and Maurizio Teli

Welcome by Rob Cuyvers (Dean of the Faculty of Architecture), Liesbeth Huybrechts and Maurizio Teli (General Chairs PDC 2018).

DO YOU HAVE TIME TO PARTICIPATE?
General chair: Liesbeth Huybrechts

Participation is a form of Democracy and as such it will be discussed within this lecture, formed from the desire and awareness about ourselves, our society, about our living environment and our common space.Between Democracy and Capitalism is obviously a huge contradiction. If Capitalism now-days is seeking for the fast decisions serving to fast profits from which mainly the small circle of people would benefit then Democracy wants to include as many people as possible and create long discussions and processes of decision making that needs to be moderated, and formed after the final conclusion for the benefit of majority.

Apolonija will discuss the relationship between people and our living environment, the democratic process of building space when changing our cities and our neighborhoods, the understanding of spatial equality within the market-driven economy, the need for forming community in a time of mobility and exodus. She will seek out the invisible paradoxes situated in-between the text and the image. The lecture will emphasize and direct the discussion deliberately towards participation with local actors in urban projects. Such projects are a product of an interaction between people and their space, where space is complex composition of matter shaped by the social, political and economic forces.

The questions that arise from such paradoxes are directed to the critique of capitalism and market economy and try to open up other solutions and proposals. What would happen if we would try to ignore the time usually estimated for a specific investment to become profitable, for instance? Through her lecture, Apolonija would like to touch the problematic of so called “model of western democracy” that seems to find itself in the dead end of the lobbyist corridors and neoliberal politics.

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General chair: Mette Agger Eriksen

Full papers report on substantial and original, unpublished research that advances Participatory Design (PD). As a single-track conference and the only research conference exclusively dedicated to PD, PDC full research papers have a broad impact on the development of PD theory, approaches and practices.

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We invite (co-)authors of books related to the conference theme to market their contributions to the attendees of the conference. It is an opportunity to share interesting and exciting work among the PDC community!

PD METHODOLOGY
Chair: Jaz Choi

Short papers present original, unpublished ideas and research that explores or advances the field of Participatory Design (PD) or reflect on its potential future developments.

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FUTURE ISSUES
Chair: Eva Brandt

Short papers present original, unpublished ideas and research that explores or advances the field of Participatory Design (PD) or reflect on its potential future developments.

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CARE
Chair: Niels Hendriks

Short papers present original, unpublished ideas and research that explores or advances the field of Participatory Design (PD) or reflect on its potential future developments.

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Chair: Marcus Foth

Full papers report on substantial and original, unpublished research that advances Participatory Design (PD). As a single-track conference and the only research conference exclusively dedicated to PD, PDC full research papers have a broad impact on the development of PD theory, approaches and practices.

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“Democracy in practice: the contributions of participation” invites practitioners active in companies, government, and not-for-profit organizations outside of academia to join us for a participative gathering on Wednesday 22 of August from 16.30 to 18.00h (at Z33, Hasselt) just before the Conference reception. This gathering also forms the starting debate for two-year project “The Politics of Design”. This project researches participatory practices' contributions to democratic ways of giving form to our environment. It questions how design practitioners from the region and beyond (on a national en international level) give form to and see the role of developing a participatory practice.

Besides providing a platform for great networking, the evening will also feature a tour of the Situated Actions – from 17:30 to 18:00 the participants will be invited to interact with the works presented in our exhibition at Z33. At 18.00h participants will join the conference ceremony awards and reception.

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PD-inspired exhibitions, performances, interventions, workshops, public debates, or other highly interactive engagements, incorporating public space in the city of Hasselt.

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A recognition for outstanding achievement in the area of participatory design. Where tradi- tional design awards have gone to individual designers and/or singular objects, the Artful Integrator’s Award emphasises the importance of collaborative participation in design.

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Chair: Daria Loi

Full papers report on substantial and original, unpublished research that advances Participatory Design (PD). As a single-track conference and the only research conference exclusively dedicated to PD, PDC full research papers have a broad impact on the development of PD theory, approaches and practices.

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Chair: Jeanette Blomberg

Full papers report on substantial and original, unpublished research that advances Participatory Design (PD). As a single-track conference and the only research conference exclusively dedicated to PD, PDC full research papers have a broad impact on the development of PD theory, approaches and practices.

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In this edition of PDC, we would like to show the PDC 2018 participants what is happening in our schools, art, and research institutions. Therefore, the conference includes a track for showing student projects.

The student projects will be presented via postcards that will be distributed among the conference attendees and posters in the conference venue. During the conference, attendees will be stimulated to provide feedback/comments/ideas on the displayed projects in the exhibition.

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PD-inspired exhibitions, performances, interventions, workshops, public debates, or other highly interactive engagements, incorporating public space in the city of Hasselt.

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Session Chair: Yanki Lee
Panel moderator: Ann Light

One aim of the Participatory Design Conference is to be as inclusive as possible, and to increase the diversity of voices (from different parts of the world, or with new perspectives on participation) that build our field. Different strategies have been tried out to pursue this vision, such as the practitioners/industry track, exhibition track, community challenges, the David Hakken scholarship etc. Given that diversity and inclusion can still be handled better and improved, in this panel we will discuss how we can continue to work on these issues in the future. This is an issue raising panel, and the place where some planning for the future can happen.

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During the panel, the David Hakken Participatory Design Grant will be awarded. The David Hakken Participatory Design Grant was established in 2016 to celebrate David Hakken, PD veteran and member of the PDC Advisory Board. The bursary is granted by the PDC Advisory Board on a Biennial basis to 1 talented student demonstrating, through his/her work, Participatory Design practice and/or thought leadership as well as alignment with Prof. Hakken’s main philosophy.

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Chair: Jesper Simonsen

Open to everyone - including people who were not yet previously involved in PDC - who wants to discuss the past, present and future of the conference.

Gather around 19:00 at Hasselt University, in the Old Prison.

"GROOT(SE) KEUKEN"

On Thursday 23 August 2018, the conference day will conclude with a conference dinner in the city center of Hasselt. With the support of the city of Hasselt and sticking to the theme of the conference, a participatory process is set up for this dinner. A collaboration is set up between three large kitchens and chefs from Limburg; together they prepare one dish that can be prepared within the possibilities of the kitchen, that can be part of the menu in the organisation in the future and that fits the conference.

In doing so, they face a challenge of designing a vegetarian, gluten and lactose-free recipe with mainly local ingredients.
- For the starter, the kitchen of rest home St. Elisabeth collaborates with chef Alexander Reniers (Osteria Moretti).
- The main course is prepared by the kitchen of the Jessa Hospital, together with Marijke Vanwelkenhuysen (Oats).
- The kitchen of social work place De Wroeter takes care of the dessert, with help from Jan Wauters (6 zinnen).

The new dishes will be served for the first at the conference dinner for around 200 people. Afterwards, they will be put on the menus of the different kitchens.

Chair: Tone Bratteteig

Full papers report on substantial and original, unpublished research that advances Participatory Design (PD). As a single-track conference and the only research conference exclusively dedicated to PD, PDC full research papers have a broad impact on the development of PD theory, approaches and practices.

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POLITICS
Chair: Rachel Clarke

Short papers present original, unpublished ideas and research that explores or advances the field of Participatory Design (PD) or reflect on its potential future developments.

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URBAN
Chair: Andrea Botero

Short papers present original, unpublished ideas and research that explores or advances the field of Participatory Design (PD) or reflect on its potential future developments.

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ON THE EDGE
Chair: Karin Slegers

Short papers present original, unpublished ideas and research that explores or advances the field of Participatory Design (PD) or reflect on its potential future developments.

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In this edition of PDC, we would like to show the PDC 2018 participants what is happening in our schools, art, and research institutions. Therefore, the conference includes a track for showing student projects.

The student projects will be presented via postcards that will be distributed among the conference attendees and posters in the conference venue. During the conference, attendees will be stimulated to provide feedback/comments/ideas on the displayed projects in the exhibition.

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FROM THE LAB TO THE STREET: WHAT NEW COMPETENCES FOR AN INTELLIGENT FUTURE?
General chair: Maurizio Teli

Over the last decade or so, intelligent technology testing has moved from relatively enclosed environments like the laboratory, the factory-floor and the home into public spaces, such as the street. This places new demands on the capacities of the actors involved – engineers, citizens, social researchers, policy makers and designers, ... – to envision a shared, societal future. One way to sum up this challenge is by modifying a well-known and enigmatic precept: In the 1990s, engineering was defined as “sociology by other means” (Law, 1991), but to make this true today we need to add new elements, namely participation and design.

In her lecture, Noortje will unpack and advance this claim by investigating a series of recent street trials of intelligent vehicles in the UK and elsewhere. Drawing on empirical materials, from fieldwork notes to debate maps and a design exercise, Noortje will first show how some key elements go missing in contemporary street trials of driverless cars, and how, for this reason, they risk to fail in their attempt to put a proposed technological future to a societal test. Some trials bracket contestation among road users (drivers, cyclists, pedestrians), while others render the social environment passive, reducing it to a décor for machine performance. The result of this is not only to render the societal future unreal, but also, stupid.

So how, then, can design and social research be combined to re-introduce the missing elements, and stage a public encounter between actors, forces and visions – the car system, the ecological future – that so often remain mute to one another, and which, accordingly, fails to take place?

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Chairs: Maurizio Teli and Jesper Simonsen

The conclusion panel is a short session of half an hour that reflects on this conference and on PDC2020. The panel is moderated by Maurizio Teli (PDC2018 chair) and Jesper Simonsen (PDC advisory board).