[Air-L] December 1 deadline for Exploratory Papers for PDC 2020

[Cristhian Daniel]

Dear all,

The deadline is coming up for Exploratory Papers for PDC 2020. The
conference theme is Participation(s) Otherwise, and we are excited to
welcome papers that imagine this theme in shorter papers through
exploratory cases; theoretical engagements; provocations for practice,
writing, or imagining; and participatory practices in and outside design.

See more information at PDC2020.org, and the call for papers, in part,
below. I think some of you might find it of interest to engage with this
community. Would be great to find you in Colombia next year!

Since Participatory Design’s (PD) emergence as a research community, PD
scholars have asserted that design is a practical, social and political
endeavour. Main commitments include: offering alternative technologies,
rendering design processes democratic, open and accessible to wide
participation, and amenable to critical scrutiny and mutual learning. By
proposing the theme of Participation(s) otherwise, we want to invite the PD
community to think further on the diverse meanings and ontologies that
participation and design can take on. Let’s open up the understanding of
“participation” beyond modernist narratives and theoretically “universal”
cookie cutter solutions and account for diverse practices.

What forms, conceptions and understandings of participation, collaboration,
intervention, design and technology can we draw upon to contest
essentialist views on participatory design? Are current conceptions
coherent with plural understandings and realities? What haven’t we realized
before? From whom else are we / can we be learning?

See more about Exploratory Papers at
http://www.pdc2020.org/exploratory-papers/

Exploratory Papers Chairs,
Cristhian Parra and Shana Agid
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*Cristhian Parra*
Design Researcher & Engineer | Investigador de Diseño e Ingeniero
Head of Experimentation | Jefe de Experimentación
UNDP Accelerator Labs | Laboratorio de Aceleración del PNUD
Asunción, Paraguay
This is my personal email, for professional matters, reach me at:
cristhian.parra at undp.org