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The 16th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) Hasselt & Genk, Belgium
"Participatory Design, Democracy and Politics"
Reminder of deadlines for short papers, workshops, tutorials, doctoral colloquium and situated actions: 09 February 2018
Deadlines for PDC 2018 are approaching fast, so please find a reminder
of the upcoming important dates as well as the submission instructions
below.
We invite practitioners and researchers in Participatory Design to
submit proposals before the 9th of February 2018 for our exhibition
(category: Situated actions), our conference (category: short papers) or
workshops and PhD colloquium. Of course, you are also more than welcome
to just visit and participate in the conference in August 2018.
DEADLINES
- 9 February 2018: First submission short papers, workshops, tutorials,
doctoral colloquium, situated actions and submission revised full papers
- 14 May 2018: First submission student projects
- 27 March 2018: Final notification of acceptance full papers, short
papers, workshops, tutorials, doctoral colloquium, situated actions
- 18 May 2018: Camera ready versions for full papers, short papers,
workshops, tutorials, doctoral colloquium, situated actions
- 15 June 2018: Final notification of acceptance student projects
- 29 June 2018: Camera ready versions of student projects
All deadlines are at end of day, 23:59 Pacific Standard Time (PST).
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
All submissions should be made via the PDC 2018 Conference System:
https://www.conftool.pro/pdc2018
All contributions should be submitted using the ACM recommended
templates. There is a ACM SigConf sample file of the template available
via the PDC 2018 website. Please note that the ACM templates have
changed recently and the ACM resource link now provides you with an
archive of the full catalogue of ACM templates, available as ZIP
archives. Among them, please use the SigConf proceedings template which
is the correct template to use for the International Conference
Proceedings Series published by ACM. You are free to use the text editor
toolbar/plugin provided by ACM, as well as to use the sample file
provided for your convenience in the ACM Sample Files folder (and on the
first link of this paragraph).
You can find more information on how to submit on the conference
website: https://pdc2018.org/submission-instructions/
SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
At this stage, PDC 2018 invites submissions in the following categories
(to be published in the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series):
- Short papers: (maximum 4 pages, excl. references).
- Interactive workshops: (maximum 3 pages, excl. references).
- Tutorials: (maximum 3 pages, excl. references).
- Doctoral Colloquium: (maximum 4 page proposal, excl. references).
- Situated Actions: (maximum 2 pages text with 2 pages optional images
or plans; or 5 minutes audio/video).
- The Artful Integrators award.
You can find more information on the submission categories on the
conference website:
The 16th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) Hasselt & Genk, Belgium
"Participatory Design, Democracy and Politics"
The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) is a conference with a long history in bringing together scholars who present research on the direct involvement of people in design, development, implementation, and appropriation activities of information and communication technologies, spaces, artefacts, and services. PDC brings together a multidisciplinary and international group of researchers and practitioners encompassing a wide range of issues that emerge around participatory design, encountered and discussed in multiple fields. These include, but are not limited to, HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), co-design, design research, CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning), ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology for Development), development studies, design anthropology, sociology, media studies, participatory architecture and spatial planning, and participatory arts.
In 2018, the Participatory Design Conference will be held in Belgium, in a year that is characterised by municipal elections in the region. Not only on a local level are things in motion; we are facing several challenges on a global level too: growing economic and social inequalities, growing migration rates, and a rise of xenophobia, right-wing upsurge and securitarian policies. PDC 2018’s theme, Participatory Design, Politics and Democracy, questions both the role of participatory design practitioners in the PD processes themselves and in the changing political landscape.
From a methodological perspective, we will discuss how researchers and practitioners in academia, private and public organisations deal with design as a democratic process. To what extent can and should PD be a fully democratic process, and how is this achieved in everyday practice? How does the growing embedding of design, researchers and research labs in people’s everyday lives and environments contribute to design as a democratic process?
From a thematic perspective, we will discuss how important political themes are to contemporary participatory designers, how the actions of participatory designers relate to activism, and how PD can contribute to giving form to our political systems. What could be meaningful political strategies for PD? How do such strategies connect to the political tradition in PD and how do they renovate PD political commitment? How could PD be an appropriate political tactic in contemporary societies?
As, for the first time in years, public advertising posters, tv and radio commercials are allowed in political campaigns in Belgium, we would also like to question how PD can be an approach to engage people in debate on political issues and in the framing of campaigns. Therefore, PDC will immerse in the urban fabric of the cities of Genk and Hasselt as venues for presenting and discussing current PD research in the form of lectures, exhibitions, workshops and interventions.
