Participatory Innovation Conference 2012, Melbourne, Australia, 12-14
January 2012
Swinburne University Faculty of Design in collaboration with SPIRE,
University of Southern Denmark is proud to host the 2012 Participatory
Innovation Conference. This is a forum where participants from different
disciplines and organisations can meet and challenge each other to
develop the field of participatory innovation. It will be held in
Melbourne, Australia from 12-14 January 2012.
What is Participatory Innovation?
Participatory Innovation combines theories and methods across academic
fields that describe how people outside an organisation can contribute
to its innovation. Join this conference to help identify ways for
industry, the public sector, and communities to expand innovation
through the participation of users, employees, suppliers, citizens,
members, etc. – on a strategic level, in concrete methods, and in
day-to-day interactions. Industry, public agencies, and communities
increasingly adopt people-driven and open innovation, as they realise
that innovation cannot come solely from within an organisation.
Innovation happens in the ‘breaking of the waves’ between people outside
and people inside – because they have different stakes and perspectives.
In academia, new breakthrough contributions to understanding and
supporting innovation also emerge in the borderlands between disciplines
that traditionally do not collaborate (ex. between indigenous knowledge
and design, or between management and anthropology).
Call for Extended Abstracts:
We are currently seeking extended abstracts (approximately 750-500
words, not including bibliography) for double-blind peer review
addressing one of the five conference tracks:
- Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Innovation,
- Evolving Design Anthropology,
- Making Design and Analysing Interaction,
- Organising Participatory Innovation, and
- Designing Innovative Business Models.
Each of the tracks supports a unique combination of disciplines and
offers an engaging way to participate. Practitioners are encouraged to
submit cases that researchers can react to at the conference. More
information on tracks can be found on the conference website,
http://www.pin-c2012.org
Deadlines (Australian time):
- Abstracts and intents to participate: August 5th
- Notice of Acceptance: September 5th
- Full papers: October 14th
- Final submissions: November 18th
For questions please contact conference co-chairs:
Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, Swinburne Faculty of Design
([log in to unmask]); ( mailto:([log in to unmask]); ) and
Jacob Buur, SPIRE, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern
Denmark ([log in to unmask]) ( mailto:([log in to unmask]) )
Thanks,
Dori Tunstall
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Brief Conference Track Descriptions:
Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Innovation
How can indigenous communities use their high level of cultural wellness
to design futures that reduce their social and economic vulnerability?
How can indigenous ways of knowing reframe the understanding of
participation? This track brings into dialogue participants from
indigenous communities, futuring, and design to explore the processes of
cultural innovation.
Track chairs:
Associate Professor Pi’ikea Clark, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi
Associate Professor, Bo Zhou, Chinese Central Academy for Fine Arts
Evolving Design Anthropology
Design and Anthropology often engage at the level of designing for human
cognitive and emotional needs and desires. But what about the spiritual,
which completes holistic human existence? This track seeks participants
who are interested in grappling with how design anthropology can evolve
to also address the underlying values systems of organisations and the
translation of those values into tangible experiences for negotiation
among multiple stakeholders.
Track chairs:
Associate Dean Elizabeth Tunstall, Faculty of Design, Swinburne
UniversiMaking Design and Analysing Interaction
Physical ‘stuff’ like generative toolkits, tinkering and provotypes has
proven highly valuable in encouraging people with different backgrounds
to collaborate. But why and how does it work? This track brings together
‘makers’ of design collaboration with interaction analysts, who can
explain what actually happens.
Track chairs:
Senior Research Fellow Carolyn Barnes, Faculty of Design, Swinburne
University
Associate Professor Trine Heinemann, SPIRE, University of Southern
Denmark
Organising Participatory Innovation
Involving users and other stakeholders in innovation poses serious
challenges to management. Organisations hesitate to admit external
voices into internal conversations. This track brings together
practitioners and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of
‘organising’ participatory processes that lead to novel solutions. A
particular challenge is participation in public-private partnerships.
Track chairs:
Dean and Distinguished Professor, Ken Friedman, Faculty of Design,
Swinburne University
Professor Henry Larsen, SPIRE, University of Southern Denmark
Designing Innovative Business Models
There are already several examples in academia of widening the circle of
participants when discussing how to innovate business models. In this
track practitioners, designers and business experts come together to
create new ways of innovating business models with user participation –
by moving business model discussions beyond marketing into the realm of
interaction design!
Track chairs:
Professor Eddie Blass, Faculty of Business & Enterprise, Swinburne
University
Professor Jacob Buur. SPIRE, University of Southern Denmark
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About Swinburne Faculty of Design and SPIRE:
Swinburne University Faculty of Design has more than a century of
history. It focuses on the value adding benefits of design and design
research to people, the environment, industry and the economy.
SPIRE is the newest research centre at the Mads Clausen Institute. It is
concerned with research in participatory innovation in collaboration
with social scientists, human scientists, local industry and the theatre
group Dacapo.
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