Dear list, 

The call for tutorials at PDC08 has been extended to April 7. 
Please feel free to distribute the below widely.

Best
Daria 

d a r i a    l o i   [PhD]
research scientist/design researcher
intel corporation :: digital  home :: user experience group
20270 NW Amberglen Ct., AG1-112 Beaverton, OR 97006 USA 
tel:  +1 503 456-2927 :: email: [log in to unmask] 


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Dear colleague!

As the Tutorial Co-Chairs of this year's Participatory Design
Conference we are inviting you to submit a tutorial proposal. Our
intention is to demonstrate the relevance of Participatory Design
approaches for practice and to draw a broad audience from industry
and research by teaching PD experiences with a hands-on approach. 

With this call we adress individual researchers and practitioners who have shown interest in PD. Feel free to distribute this call to colleagues that
may also be interested.

Attached you find the official call, further information you can find
at the conference homepage at http://www.pdc2008.org 

Kind regards,

Volkmar Pipek and Bettina Törpel

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Call for Tutorials at the Participatory Design Conference PDC 2008 to be
held September 30 - October 4, 2008 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Tutorial Co-Chairs: Volkmar Pipek and Bettina Törpel

This year's PDC conference will host tutorial sessions, either half or
full day, for teaching the PDC audience on issues relevant for
Participatory Design and its further development in the future,
including conceptual frameworks, methods, techniques, and novel
approaches.

Experienced practitioners of and/or scholars in Participatory Design
are  encouraged to submit tutorial proposals. The proposal may be up
to two pages long (see the conference format specifications) and
should contain
- a title,
- name(s) and contact information of the person(s) applying to teach the
tutorial,
- goals and adressees (students/researchers/practitioners),
- objectives, contents, techniques etc.,
- teaching approach,
- activities in the tutorial,
- a schedule,
- the relevance of the contents to be taught to Participatory Design,
- a description of the materials to be used, e. g. handouts that you
intend to make available and
- short biographies of the persons applying to teach the tutorial.
If the number of participants exceeds a certain number (to be
specified), the tutorial teacher will receive part of the tutorial
fees. Necessary materials of participants will be billed seperately.

Please submit your tutorial proposal via the PDC submission system no later
than April 7, 2008 (final date!).

Tutorials will be accepted based on the number of rooms available and
based on the audience they promise to draw.

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PDC 2008 - Call for Contribution (apologies 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 24, 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.