Workshops

Workshop 1. Participatory Design with Health and Social Care Institutions Monday 29 November. Full day workshop.
Workshop 2: Prototyping (in) Healthcare Tuesday 30 November. Full day workshop.
Workshop 3. Innovation in participatory design Tuesday 30 November. Full day workshop.
Workshop 4. Participatory Innovation in SMEs Monday 29 November. Full day workshop.
Workshop 5. Take Part: Participatory methods in art and design NEW! Tuesday 30 November. Half-day workshop.

Workshop 1. Participatory Design with Health and Social Care Institutions
Monday 29 November. Full day workshop.
Organisers:
Daniel Wolstenholme, Mark Cobb, Simon Bowen, Andy Dearden, Fazilatur Rahman, Peter Wright, Lone Malmborg, Thomas Binder and Eva Brandt

Health and social care are having to adapt to an aging population and an increase in the prevalence of chronic conditions. Participatory approaches can empower service users both in managing their own wellbeing and in designing products systems and services.
This workshop will provide a space:

• to share experiences and stories of designing in and with the health and social care institutions in different contexts;
• to reflect on recent and ongoing PD activity within health and social care;
• to explore ‘ways forward’ for PD in health and social care.

Download the workshop call for participation.
Information on this workshop will be made available at www.uchd.org.uk

Workshop 2: Prototyping (in) Healthcare
Tuesday 30 November. Full day workshop.
Organisers:
Tariq Andersen, PhD fellow, Human-centered Computing, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
Jonas Moll, PhD fellow, Human-centered Computing, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
Troels Mønsted, PhD fellow, Human-centered Computing, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen

As PD moves into healthcare distinct practical issues emerge. PD researchers need to respond to these new challenges by e.g. establishing an ongoing dialogue on the practicalities of prototyping in healthcare. With this workshop we intend to start such reflections by focusing on practical issues of prototyping, such as ‘how to orchestrate PD in healthcare?’ and ‘how to run and manage prototypes in everyday medical practice?’ During the workshop the results of participants’ work on problems and solutions will collaboratively be turned into a booklet. The booklet articulates a first take on ‘tricks of the trade’ of prototyping in healthcare.
Download the workshop call for participation.
Information on this workshop will be made available at http://cith.dk/pdc2010/

Workshop 3. Innovation in participatory design
Tuesday 30 November. Full day workshop.
Organisers:
Peter Dalsgaard and Kim Halskov, CAVI & Center for Digital Urban Living, Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus

The goal of the workshop is to advance the practical and theoretical understanding of the real life nature of processes of innovation as part of participatory design of interactive systems. The workshop seeks to explore how to describe, talk about, and understand in which ways and under which circumstances users and designers are innovative and creative actors in design activities. The format of the workshop will be short presentations from the participants as well as group work sessions. We invite contributions that either 1) address and discuss specific methods which scaffold innovation in participatory design and/or 2) address ways of understanding, analyzing and discussing creativity and innovation in the design process.
Download the workshop call for participation.
Information on this workshop will be made available at www.cavi.dk/pdc-workshop

To participate, please submit your 2-4 pages position statement formatted using the ACM SIGCHI template directly to Kim Halskov: halskov@cavi.dk before September 1. Notification September 13

Workshop 4. Participatory Innovation in SMEs
Monday 29 November. Full day workshop.
Organisers:
Christine De Lille, Delft University of Technology
Jacob Buur,Mads Clausen Institute for Product Innovation, University of Southern Denmark

Small-to-Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been the forgotten child within academic research regarding PD until recently. The need for user participation within SMEs has been recognized, but in which aspects does this differ from that already taking place within larger companies? Are the existing methods adequate in a SME context?
The goal of this workshop is to share insights on work with SMEs. Reports on cases with SMEs are rare in academia while many practitioners within participatory design probably have experience dealing with SMEs. We would like this information and experience to surface during this workshop.
We invite participants to share their own experiences by relating stories of how they conducted cases within a SME context. Also, the organizers each bring their own case stories.
Up to ten participants can attend the workshop. Researchers cases and experience within Participatory Design in SMEs are invited to submit a short position paper on their work. Details for the position paper will be e-mailed when sending a registration email to the organizers.
Depending on available seats, people with interest in the topic but no prior experience can attend the workshop as well. Please submit a brief statement about your experience and motivation. These participants are invited to read Heiskanen (see references) as preparation for the workshop.

Submission via c.s.h.delille@tudelft.nl . Please include a short description of your background in your position paper.

Position paper deadline: September 1st.
Notification of acceptance: September 13th.

Heiskanen, E. & Repo, P. (2007) User involvement and entrepreneurial action human technology, 3(2): 167-187.

Workshop 5. Take Part: Participatory methods in art and design NEW!
Tuesday 30 November.  Half-day workshop (11-4pm, followed by drinks and exhibition opening)
Organisers:
Lizzie Muller and Lian Loke, University of Technology, Sydney
with:
Keith Armstrong, Queensland University of Technology
Natalie Jeremijenko, New York University
Danielle Wilde, Tokyo University
Kristina Andersen, STEIM, Amsterdam

Take Part explores the philosophical, ethical, political and methodological crossovers between artists and designers working with participatory processes. It brings together artists and designers who have developed innovative methods for collaborating with audiences and end-users. The workshop aims to actively develop shared possibilities for collaborative research between these two communities of practice, and to lay the groundwork for new publications in this hybrid area. Discussion will spring from two case-study art/design projects taking place in Sydney alongside PDC 2010 – the Remnant/Emergency ARTLAB and the OWL project. Tours of these projects will be provided for the participants as part of the workshop.

The workshop raises the following questions:

• What opportunities and challenges are revealed by the comparative examination of participatory art and design practices?
• How are questions of aesthetics, utility and impact deployed in the evaluative structures of these two fields, and how might the discourses of each shed light upon the other?
• What might these two communities of practitioners learn from each other in terms of methodologies and strategies of engagement?

We invite curious and creative practitioners and researchers from all fields to join us for an afternoon of discussion, and structured exploration. To participate, please submit a 1-2 page statement explaining your interest in this area including a brief biography, formatted using the PDC Paper Submission Template directly to lizzie.muller@uts.edu.au by 12th November (DATE EXTENDED).  Notification by the 19th November. Download the Call For Participation. Please let us know if you need confirmation before this date in order to secure travel funding.