Tutorials

There are two more tutorials scheduled. Details will be posted as soon as they become available.

Tutorial 1. Action Methods for Cross-Boundary Participation
Tuesday 30 November. Full day tutorial
Presenters: Ann Light, Sheffield Hallam University and Val Monti Holland, Left Luggage Creative Training & Facilitation.

We offer new ways to engage participants in working together. The emphasis is particularly on working across boundaries, whether disciplinary or cultural. Every person is a confluence of influences, but once in groups, differences of expectations and interaction styles become more pronounced. Working through the theory and practice of engaging people in group work, we examine together some key issues in getting engagement from heterogeneous groups, communities and teams, and consider how to turn interested bystanders into active participants. There will be practical examples of exercises during the session, using action-based techniques.
Anyone with an interest in groups and how they can be facilitated is welcome to attend this tutorial.
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Tutorial 2. Participatory Design Charrettes
Monday 29 November. Full day tutorial
Presenters: Mike Glaser, Drexel University, and Carla Diana, Smart Design WorldWide.

This full day tutorial will immerse participants in a high-intensity, real-time, multidisciplinary collaborative team experience where they will explore how to develop and conduct a successful participatory design charrette. Using a traditional design process as a starting point, the organizers will lead participants though a complete charrette cycle, providing insights and best practices into how to use the charrette structure as a participatory design technique. The tutorial will run as a compressed charrette itself, and the goal will be to imagine and diagram opportunities for the creation of hybrid methodologies, and to broaden the roles of participatory designers in this time-tested methodology. The outcome of this is tutorial will be shared with all conference attendees to create discussion around its integration into a broader audience in the PD community. The organizers’ aim is to share this unique design tool in a multi-disciplinary collaboration, generating open source knowledge that will create adaptations of the technique in new realms of use and context.

The intended audience is any PDC attendee interested in or considering using group collaboration techniques for creative enterprise and involving people in the co-design of things. It is the expectation that this tutorial will bring together together a diverse group of software developers, researchers, social scientists, managers, designers, practitioners, cultural workers, and local design students.