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Dear PD community:
As many of you know the next Participatory Design conference is taking place next year in Belgium. As in previous editions of PDC, we aim to continue strengthening dialogue with and learning from practitioners active in commercial, government, and not-for-profit organisations. To facilitate more practitioners and more high quality submissions coming from outside academia the organising committee has planned a special “support” process, instead of a dedicated track. If you know of someone that will be interested in this do please let them know. about this. We hope the whole PD community help us forward the following invitation through their networks (specially those that include people working on participatory design outside academia).
Best
PDC2018 Industry Chairs
Andrea Botero, Daria Loi, An Jacobs and Marc Steen
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PDC2018 - Expressions of interest from PD practitioners outside academia
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Previous PDC conferences have included contributions from international organisations such as Google, Intel, IBM, Lego as well as many NGOs, civic organizations, goverments and municipalities from around the world. Come and join us to help grow the PDC community.
If you are a PD practitioner working in the industry (e.g. commercial, government, and not-for-profit organizations) and would like to get a better grasp of how you can contribute and learn from the PD community this is for you! In this edition of PDC we plan to provide tailored support for practitioners active in commercial, government, and not-for-profit organisations so they can submit their work to any of the PDC submission categories, instead of organising a special practitioners track.
Are you interested in this type of support? Send us an expression of interest (1 A4 max) before 1st of September. We, Industry Chairs, will review all expressions of interest, provide feedback on the contribution as well as guidance on the most suitable submission category for a potential manuscript. Chairs might additionally offer or help finding coaching options or co-authoring support.
More details and instructions:
https://pdc2018.org/submission-instructions/pd-practitioners-outside-academia-industry-track/
Contact:
indu...@pdc2018.org
Andrea Botero, Daria Loi, An Jacobs and Marc Steen