Today was the first day of the Participatory Design Conference being held at UTS. Just a reminder about the Industry Day that’s happening on Thursday, for which Zumio is a sponsor. (I’ve been unable to attend the entire conference due to work commitments — if you attended, please drop us a comment with your thoughts!)
The programme for the day is looking great — I’m very excited to see Mariesa from Inspire is presenting the opening keynote. In talks and conversations I’ve often singled out Inspire as a great example of involving young people in their processes across the organisation, so I’m really looking forward to hearing more about their work in the participatory design space. And of course I always love to hear from the folks at Digital Eskimo and CollabForge, who I know are doing great work.
But I’m also very excited to hear from some new (for me) voices in this area — and there’s plenty of very interesting folks in the panel and research sessions in the afternoon. In any case, I hope to see you there…
I attended today’s tutorial with Tanya Notley from the Tactical Technology Collective on Visualising Information for Advocacy. They are doing some great work in this space working with NGOs around the world. I’m also looking forward to catching up with you and the others working in this area at the industry day on Thursday. :-)