SUMMERPIT - Join the crowd! Fuel and charge! Dig deep!
See you in Aarhus - August 12-23, 2013
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For two weeks in August PIT will host SummerPIT 2013, which brings together international researchers from across PIT-related research areas, local researchers, and PhD students.
Part of SummerPIT is a PhD School where PhD students get a chance to join discussions and other activities, in combination with jointly carrying out design workshops where they explore and reflect on a number of approaches and methods to participatory IT and participatory design. PIT staff will be responsible for these workshops. Students are expected to attend talks, explore methods and approaches together, and present their work as part of the general SummerPIT program.
This is a great chance to explore new perspectives, present your own work to a dedicated audience and meet fellow PhD students and international researchers.
http://pit.au.dk/news-events/upcoming-conferences-workshops-and-summer-schools/pit-summer-school/phd-school/
The other (overlapping) part is for researchers, visitors and locals alike:
Some of the international researchers are invited and funded by PIT, but we would like to take the opportunity to extend the invitation to international and national senior researchers who can join us on their own funding. Since we have a limited capacity for this, we encourage you to sign up as soon as possible by sending a request to Susanne Bødker ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
There will be daily talks, workshops and an opportunity to meet old friends and new people.
http://pit.au.dk/summerpit/invitation-to-senior-researchers/
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Deadline for signing up is June 14 by email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Throughout the two weeks there will be talks every morning. These will be open and a list of the talks will be published later.
PIT:
Aarhus University’s interdisciplinary research centre for Participatory IT establishes a new foundation for this area of research. Participatory IT research is the study of how people experience, understand, design, and shape information technology as part of their lived experience.
The centre extends the Scandinavian participatory design tradition, which has historically focused on involving people in the introduction of technology to their workplaces. However, during the recent decades, information technology has become an integrated element of almost all parts of people’s everyday lives, including leisure, civic activity, art, and culture, thereby establishing new forms of participation and social practices. The pervasiveness of information technology in human life poses new challenges for the way participation occurs, is supported, and understood.
Accordingly, the centre poses the fundamental question of what participation currently means, and how it may be supported by IT, today and in the future.
The PIT centre innovates the participatory design tradition, and extends it through interdisciplinary perspectives from pivotal research areas, including digital aesthetics, interaction design, computer-mediated activity, and ubiquitous computing. In PIT, these research traditions jointly address theoretical themes, and meet in empirical cases where processes of research through design meet technological development and artistic inquiry.
In collaboration with prominent researchers across the world, PIT undertakes research to develop theories, information technology, and methods that generate scholarly insight relating to new forms of IT-supported participation.
The unique combination of historical roots, interdisciplinary perspectives, and technological concern is designed to deliver world-class research. PIT will address new forms of participation and collaboration in everyday life. Furthermore, it will provide technological alternatives to support such practices.
Contact:
Susanne Bødker
professor
Department of Computer Science,
Aarhus University
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+4587156148<tel:%2B4587156148>
+4540839689<tel:%2B4540839689>
www.pit.au.dk<http://www.pit.au.dk/>
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