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 UNITN Participatory Design Conference 2006 |
2006 Participatory Design Conference
Expanding Boundaries in Design
Trento, Italy, August 1-5, 2006
Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
The theme Expanding Boundaries in Design focuses attention on the multiple contexts in which design takes place and on an expanding range of possible design outcomes.
While participatory design principles and practices are most often applied to the design of technical systems and artefacts, increasingly there is both the need and the opportunity to focus PD approaches on other domains, such as physical environments, organizational practices, and IT-enabled services.
Likewise, the contexts in which PD is practiced has grown to include teams of globally distributed designers and practitioners; actor networks that span organizational, expertise, cultural and linguistic difference; and activity areas beyond the workplace, such as domestic and leisure.
Finally, PD has a significant role to play at various stages of design, from initial concept development, to system configuration, to implementation, to integration within the context of use, and ultimately to ongoing design in use.
The Artful Integrators' Award
The second Artful Integrators' Award, was presented at PDC 2006 in Trento to the Health Information Systems Programme (HISP)  (63KB) for Participatory action research and design across country and community contexts. The Artful Integrators Award certificate, with a list of the participants in the HISP project is available here (198KB).
In memory of Enid Mumford
During PDC2006, there was a brief ceremony in memoriam of Enid Mumford (64KB), for her contribution to the studies on Participatory Design.
Design Bibliography Wiki
Finally, Andrew Clement introduced the audience to the Design Bibliography Wiki (240KB), an online resource for the Participatory Design community. The Wiki is accessible here: http://www.meatballsociety.org/cgi-bin/design.
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