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NordiCHI 2025 Summer School – Call for Participation
by Dag Svanæs 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

NordiCHI 2025 Summer School – Call for Participation NordiCHI 2025 Summer School The NordiCHI 2025 Summer School will take place in Bergen, Norway, from June 16th to 18th, 2025. The NordiCHI research community arranges summer schools in the years between its biennial NordiCHI conferences. Similar to the first NordiCHI summer school in 2023, this year’s event is hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the University of Oslo. Call for participation We invite PhD students in Human-Computer Interaction and related research fields to submit a proposal for evaluation. The admission to the school will be based on the review of the proposal. Dates and venue * Dates: 16th – 18th June, 2025 * Venue: Baroniet Rosendal, two hours south of Bergen by bus/boat. Programme The format of the summer school will be a combination of lectures by invited lecturers, PhD student presentations with feedback, and plenary discussions. The limited number of PhD students (max. 15) will allow for dialogue and discussions in the spirit of the NordiCHI conferences. Organizers and invited lecturers (panel) * Organizers: Prof. Dag Svanæs, NTNU, Trondheim; prof. Tone Bratteteig and assoc. prof. Suhas Govind Joshi, University of Oslo. * Invited lecturers (confirmed): Prof. Anna Vallgårda, IT University of Copenhagen. (Two more unconfirmed. To keep the costs low, we invite faculty from northern Europe and the Nordics). ECTS credits The successful completion of the summer school and submission of an experience report will award 3 ECTS credits from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The proposal * The proposal should consist of (1) a research summary, (2) a short resume and (3), a recommendation letter from your PhD supervisor. * The research summary should be a 2-4 page paper (excluding references) that describes your research. In addition to the overview, you may go in detail on an aspect of your research that you would like to receive feedback on during the summer school. * Your research summary will not be published, i.e. you can use it verbatim in future publications. However, if accepted to the summer school, we want to distribute your research usmmary to the other participants as background for discussions. * As the research summary will not become part of a proceeding, you may use the 1-column ACM initial submissions format. (See summer school web page for further links): * https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… * Your research summary, resume and recommendation letter should be submitted by email to dag.svanes(a)ntnu.no<mailto:dag.svanes@ntnu.no> and tone(a)ifi.uio.no<mailto:tone@ifi.uio.no>. * Deadline for submission is April 15th. Registration fee Registration fee: 750 €. This covers accommodation and food for the three days of the summer school, and transport to and from Bergen airport. This year’s summer school is sponsored by the NordiCHI conference fund, NTNU and the University of Oslo. Important dates * Deadline for submission of proposal: April 15th * Notification of Acceptance: April 25th * Registration deadline: May 7th * Summer School: June 16th-18th * Deadline for submission of experience report: October 15th Summer School web site https://www.ntnu.edu/nordichi-summer-school For questions, please contact us at dag.svanes(a)ntnu.no<mailto:dag.svanes@ntnu.no> or tone(a)ifi.uio.no<mailto:tone@ifi.uio.no>.

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Open position: Postdoctoral Researcher Material Democracy / Aalto University, Finland
by Joanna Saad-Sulonen 27 Jan '25

27 Jan '25

- Apologies for cross-posting - https://www.aalto.fi/en/open-positions/postdoctoral-researcher-material-dem… https://www.aalto.fi/fi/avoimet-tyopaikat/tutkijatohtori-demokratian-materi… The Department of Design at Aalto University is now seeking two candidates for the following position: Postdoctoral Researcher The duration of the employment contract is 33 months and it starts on April 1, 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. Your role, goals and networks: The consortium ‘Material Democracy’, funded by the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland, is seeking two postdoctoral researchers. MaterialDemocracy explores the future of democracy amid major societal changes related to climate change, urbanization, the green transition, and species loss. These complex challenges have widespread consequences, creating unequal public participation and inclusion opportunities, disconnecting the public from decision-making, and impacting their lives and communities. To address this gap, MaterialDemocracy creates an innovative material approach to democratic participation. The project studies how citizens can better shape Finland's long-term infrastructure, energy, and environmental policies, the role of everyday actions and energy solutions in reducing social polarisation. We will establish the Material Democracy Hub (MD Hub). This hub will serve as a resource to build knowledge and strengthen capacity for promoting democratic reforms through stakeholder collaboration. It will also facilitate experiments and evaluations to enhance public involvement in shaping our democratic future. Professor Sampsa Hyysalo from the Aalto leads the consortium, which includes a total of five partners and has a duration of 3+3 years. The Aalto sub-project investigates three sub-themes: a) how participatory practices can be developed in the preparation of long-term transformational policies b) how citizens' material participation and peer support can create new spaces for engagement and how these can be supported c) mapping, comparing, and developing participatory practices in the democracy incubator. The postdoctoral researcher will conduct research in one or more of these sub-themes both independently and as part of a larger research team of 5-20 people. The likely outputs of each hired person’s work are 4–6 co-authored articles, participation in societal interaction activities and producing outputs of analyses for digital media platform. The team is committed to mentoring and supporting the new researcher throughout all stages of the research. Your Experience and ambitions: Candidates are required to have a doctoral degree in a relevant field such as design, science and technology studies, social sciences, behavioral sciences, information systems or business studies. Proficiency in both Finnish and English is necessary for the position. The position can be filled with somewhat varying competence mix in the following areas: Proficiency in academic literatures on participation, participatory design, and participatory democracy Experience in researching or developing democratic practices or democratic innovations Competence in or an ability to learn about climate work, citizens' energy solutions, energy transitions, and digital peer support Experience in conducting and analyzing qualitative thematic interviews Experience in developing digital platforms and refining and analyzing case studies on digital platforms Good collaboration skills to work as a member of a multidisciplinary close-knit team and consortium formed by several universities Ability to independently manage part-projects and to write at an international scientific level What we offer: We offer the innovative working community of Aalto University and meaningful and varied work as part of a high-level research team and consortium. The work includes the possibility of participating in interesting staff training at Aalto University. The salary for the postdoctoral researcher is 3900–4400€ depending on merits. Interested? Please submit your application via the Workday system by February 15, 2025 (midnight Finnish time, GMT+2). Attach to your application in English: • Curriculum vitae • A short one page description of your expertise and interest in the position If you are already an employee of Aalto, please apply directly through your internal Workday profile. Further information For further information on the position, please contact Professor Sampsa Hyysalo at sampsa.hyysalo(at)aalto.fi. For questions related to the recruitment process, please contact HR Partner Katju Helminen at katju.helminen(at)aalto.fi https://www.aalto.fi/en/open-positions/postdoctoral-researcher-material-dem… https://www.aalto.fi/fi/avoimet-tyopaikat/tutkijatohtori-demokratian-materi… -- ------------------------------------ Joanna Saad-Sulonen Postdoctoral researcher University of Oulu, Finland

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CfP: Designing Human Technologies 11.0 - the 11th doctoral PD summer school course
by Jesper Simonsen 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Call for Participation: Designing Human Technologies 11.0, will this year be held in Estonia, May 7-9, 2025 DHT 11.0 is the 11th doctoral summer school course offered to doctoral students working with, or having an interest in, Participatory Design, that is, PhD-projects conducted in close collaboration with users, citizens, or other external stakeholders. The 11th edition of the doctoral course takes place from 7 to 9 May 2025 in Estonia. The three-day course is organised by Tallinn University in collaboration with Roskilde University, University of Trento, Reykjavik University, and Carleton University. The course requirements (accepted position paper and participation) is equivalent to 3 ECTS. Topic of the course Designing Human Technologies is a broad Participatory Design-oriented research approach with a central human principle of participation and ethical concerns. Common goals of research activities in this field include being constructive and solution-oriented in close dialogue with citizens and users. Deep analysis of how designs are used and enter the daily lives of their users, as well as innovative design solutions, are the core of this course. The human principle includes involving users and main interest groups in the design and evaluation of the ability of design artefacts to meet the goals. Technology is understood in a broad sense, including information and communication technologies, process technologies, sustainable environmental technologies, energy technologies, and technologies for design in urban, nature, or other spatial settings. Purpose & format We meet to discuss our experiences in relation to doctoral work in the rich and diverse field of designing human technologies. The course is a blend of lectures and discussions in small groups. Invited lectures by senior academic staff present key theories, methodological reflections and novel approaches within the field. Discussions will take place in groups of five doctoral students and two faculty members, discussing the position papers of the students. Group discussions will dedicate one hour to each position paper, which will be divided into (max) 10 minutes of informal presentation and 50 minutes of discussion. Students will present each other’s papers, not their own papers. In addition, the course provides opportunities for networking with other doctoral students and senior faculty in the field of designing human technologies, thereby enriching relations among those who also attended last year’s editions and providing an entry point for those who did not. Venue DHT 11.0 will take place in Estonia. The venue offers accommodation for at least 35 people and has spacious seminar rooms providing a lovely atmosphere for fruitful discussions. Meals, shared rooms and transportation from the capital, Tallinn to the venue will be provided by Tallinn University for up to 20 doctoral students. Important dates Application deadline: 3 March 2025 - Applications are to be submitted online here (https://bit.ly/dht11application) The application form consists of your contact data, a short description of your research topic and a short explanation of your motivation for participating in the course. Notification of admission: 17 March 2025 - Notifications are sent by email and, if accepted, you’ll be given the full programme and further instructions. 20 doctoral students will be admitted to the course. Position paper submission deadline: 7 April 2025 - All participants are expected to submit a position paper (up to 6 pages) using a template for the course based on the ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstract format. The position paper must elaborate research questions, methodological reflections, theories, relation to Participatory Design, and a selection of achieved and/or expected outcomes. Detailed instructions will be sent to all admitted students together with the notification. Participation fee Registration, accommodation, and meals during the doctoral course are covered by Tallinn University. Participants must arrange and pay for their own travel to Tallinn, Estonia. Looking forward to welcome you in Tallinn, David Lamas & Merja Bauter On behalf of the organising committee Previous editions<http://pdcproceedings.org/PhD-courses.html>: DHT 10.0 - 2024, Trento, Italy DHT 9.0 - 2023, Trento, Italy DHT 8.0 - 2022, Ristna Sadam, Estonia DHT 7.0 - 2019, Virelaid, Estonia DHT 6.0 - 2018, Trento, Italy DHT 5.0 – 2017, Pärnu, Estonia DHT 4.0 – 2016, Roskilde, Denmark DHT 3.0 – 2015, Roskilde, Denmark DHT 2.0 – 2014, Roskilde, Denmark DHT 1.0 – 2013, Roskilde, Denmark The course is supported by the Estonian Doctoral School --------------------------------------------------- Jesper Simonsen Professor of Participatory Design Department of People and Technology Roskilde University, University Street 1, Bldg. 44.2 4000 Roskilde, Denmark Mail: simonsen(a)ruc.dk<mailto:simonsen@ruc.dk> Phone: +45 20440338 URL-1<https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/simonsen>; URL-2<http://jespersimonsen.dk/>; ORCID<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1864-7158> New book release: Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design<https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Contemporary-…> (2025)

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ECCE 2025 * Call for participation
by David Jose Ribeiro Lamas 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Dear colleague, We are proud to announce the 36th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ECCE 2025, which will take place in Tallinn, Estonia from 7 to 10 October 2025. The annual ECCE conference is the premier annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE). It serves as a platform for researchers, practitioners, and academics to share advancements, ideas, and discussions in the fields of cognitive ergonomics and human-media interaction and related disciplines. ECCE is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI. The theme of ECCE 2025 is “Critical reflection for a better tomorrow” and our goal is to raise awareness of the role and contribution of cognitive ergonomics and related design-oriented fields in enabling the experiences of individuals, communities, and the whole society through the experiences we enable, facilitate or craft. ECCE 2025 invites original work moving the fields of cognitive ergonomics and human-media interaction forward, be it through the advances of theory, methodology, or through practice. ECCE 2025 is open to several types of contributions: papers (long, short, work-in-progress), posters, panels and workshops. We invite contributions of high international standard, presenting original work that significantly contributes to research and practice of cognitive ergonomics and human-media interaction in its broadest sense. A doctoral consortium is also organized and a student volunteering program is also in place to ease the introduction of doctoral and masters students to our community. Main submission deadlines are: • 31 March 2025 - Papers (long and short), Panels, Workshops • 28 April 2025 - Papers (work in progress), Doctoral Consortium • 28 April 2025 - Notifications about panel and workshops • 26 May2025 - Notifications about all other types of contributions For additional information and all other deadlines, do check: https://ecce2025.ee/ We hope you will join us in Tallinn in October 2025! Warm regards on behalf of the organising committee, David Lamas and Merja Bauters, general chairs

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Final call for contributions Nordes 2025
by Alma Leora Culén 02 Dec '24

02 Dec '24

Final Call for Contributions NORDES 2025 NORDES 2025 - RELATIONAL DESIGN<https://uni.oslomet.no/nordes2025/> 11th Nordic Design Research Society (NORDES) Conference We are pleased to announce our final call for contributions to the NORDES 2025 Conference on the theme RELATIONAL DESIGN Dates: 6-9 August 2025 Venue: OsloMet University, Oslo, Norway Conference website: https://uni.oslomet.no/nordes2025/ Please note that the conference website, under Contributions, provides the template that is to be used for all contribution types, but you need to follow the guidelines for the type of contribution you decide to make. Kind regards from co-chairs, Alma, Laurence, and Andrew CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Contributions are now most welcome for NORDES 2025. The 11th Nordic Design Research Society (NORDES) Conference www.nordes2025.org<http://www.nordes2025.org/> Conference co-chairs University of Oslo (Prof Alma Culén), OsloMet (Prof Laurence Habib) and AHO (Prof Andrew Morrison) ORIENTATION NORDES 2025 marks the 11th bi-annual conference in this series. Launched in 2005, the Nordic Design Research Conferences have been shaped and sustained through commitment and participation from a range of Nordic design research institutions, together with regional and international participants. NORDES 2025 symbolises a collective arrival for this community at the completion of the first quarter of the 21st century. The event offers a range of shared spaces and formats for reconsidering what we intended and may have achieved so far in design inquiry. However, at this juncture, this occasion also invites us to reconsider designing and related practices, pedagogies and research as we look towards the mid-21st century. We do so in the contexts of pervasive, difficult and emergent challenges, compound crises, and deepening complexities and uncertainties about how to achieve and secure substantive and durative transformation in a world undergoing rapid ecological and systemic demands and changes. THEME NORDES 2025 takes up the open theme Relational Design to offer perspectives and means through which we may together investigate and discuss complex dilemmas and current responses, along with design’s futures and futures designing. Relational Design gives attention to ontological multiplicity in evolving processes of becoming and emergence. It accentuates working with possibilities, tensions, paradoxes and contradictions in re-framing and shaping resonances, alliances, linkages and networks of making and researching. Working within and across difference, Relational Design instantiates interrelations, intersections and distinctions. It facilitates non-normative, situated knowledge experimentation and its generative practices. Relational designing treasures linked, participative and dynamic agency to bring forward pragmatically viable, equitable and bearable transformative potentials and their resonant effects. Designing and researching relationally asks us to consider the shaping of re-directive design as well as analytical and methodological frames and practices linked with values, ethics, concepts and methods centred on repair, regeneration and reinvigoration. This includes how agency be realised when embedded within alliances, networks and webs of relationships to cultivate incipient ventures and bolder analyses in articulating relational design activities and pluralist design research formations. Overall, rethinking and re-making design relationally invites engagement in working with entanglements - of places, zones,values, processes and participation - that are enmeshed in living and regenerative situations, environments, systems and situated acts of worldmaking. The following are open prompts for consideration: How might we re-think and re-work design researching in a way that remains rich and responsible in its situated, exploratory and critical practices while charting pathways and networks, alliances and diversity which contribute to wider structural, systemic and ecological transformation towards sustainable tomorrows? What are the pragmatic, political and creative-critical characteristics of a linked, re-positioned design inquiry that reaches beyond the logics of immediate market gain and commercial extractivist expolitation and their continuing ecological destruction? How might we elicit diverse potentials and possibilities for realising plural, mutual, malleable and participative change in which human and nonhuman entities and ecologies are interwoven and interspersed, reflexively, recursively and regeneratively? What design tools and techniques might be applied to work with temporal and spatial intersections and relations that support shaping creative, multimodal and transductive design literacies in order to steward practice, ethics and cultures of care and environmental justice for near and farflung regenerative futures? In what ways might we rethink and decolonise roles and relations, activities and responses in shaping counter-narratives and collaborative storying in design inquiries that are infused with context-rich alternatives, plural perspectives and multiple mediational formats? What non-essentialist, transdisciplinary design-thick intersectional critiques of circular thinking and economic models might inform socially, technically and ecologically responsible and vibrant sustainable change? SUBMISSION FORMATS NORDES conferences accept full submissions not only abstracts. A range of well- rehearsed submission formats provides both formal analytical frames yet allows for designerly articulations suited to shaping and querying relational designing practices and their research approaches and modes of publication. NORDES 2025 invites the following contributions by type: • Full papers • Exploratory papers • Workshops • Exhibition • Doctoral Consortium All submissions are subject to a pre-review process carried out by the conference chairs and submission category coordinators to ensure coherence and quality. Full and exploratory papers, workshop and exhibition proposals will be subject to double- anonymous peer reviews. One set of full reviews per submission is provided with notifications and guidelines for preparing revised manuscripts for final digital publication. The Template for all submission types is provided on the NORDES 2025 website together with links for Submissions. KEY DATES & REGISTRATION Important dates for contributions Call for contributions: I November 2024 Submissions open: 15 January 2025 Deadline Full and Exploratory papers: 14 February 2025 Deadline Workshops, Exhibitions & Doctoral Consortium: 28 February 2025 Notification to contributors: 31 March 2025 Final revised submissions: 25 April 2025 Final acceptances: 9 May 2025 NOTE: Registration is needed by presenters by 31 May to be included in the programme, archive and proceedings. Conference fee & registration Fees includes the opening event, daily refreshments, lunches and the conference dinner. Registration opens: 10 April 2025 Early Bird: Students, including PhD students, with valid student ID (before 22 May 2025): 250 € Regular participants: (before 22 May 2025): 450 € Standard: Student (closes 12 June 2025): 300 € Regular (closes 12 June 2025): 500 € Late & onsite registration (one fee for full or partial attendance): Student (with valid student ID): 400 € Regular: 600 € PROGRAMME & PUBLICATION Programme Final programme published: 20 June 2025 Programme outline: Wednesday 6 August 2025: Welcome, Keynote, Refreshments and Snacks Thursday 7 & Friday 8 August 2025: Keynotes, Conference presentations and events Saturday 9 August 2025: Doctoral Consortium Publication All accepted submissions will be available as open access publications during and after the conference via the NORDES Digital Archive. Subsequently, publications will be accessible via the online DRS Digital Library and in the format of an integrated Conference Proceedings. ABOUT NORDES 2025 Location In 2025 NORDES returns to Oslo. The conference is located at the OsloMet city centre campus. On this occasion, we have three closely connected conference chairs from three leading design research institutions and a lively local organising committee and a team of Nordic organisers and regional and international reviewers. Conference co-chairs University of Oslo (Prof Alma Culén), OsloMet - OsloMetropolitan University (Prof Laurence Habib) and Oslo School of Architectuere and Design, AHO (Prof Andrew Morrison) Organisers, reviewers, theme and session chairs, assistants, communication design and sponsors will be posted online at a later date. Previous conferences Papers from and material about earlier NORDES conferences can be found at www.nordes.org<http://www.nordes.org/> and also archived in the DRS digital library https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/nordes/ ON CONTRIBUTION TYPES NORDES 2025 welcomes a variety of contributions and offers a range of types of submissions. Please note that conference follows a full delivery format with well formed and professionally edited texts. To build quality in design research, we encourage colleagues to have had their contribution read and reviewed by one of their peers or a supervisor. Templates for each type of contribution are given in the links below. Each contribution type will be co-chaired by a select team from the Programme Committee that will arrange reviews. Each anonymous submission will be anonymously reviewed by two peers. Extensions will be given only in exceptional circumstances. FULL PAPERS Co-chairs: Alma Culén, Einar Sneve Martinussen, Nevad Pavel, Minna Pikkarainen, Heather Wiltse Details This submission category invites original and mature research and results positioned in relation to existing research literature. Full papers represent the current frontier of knowledge in the design field. Full papers may take the shape of a range of formats and thetorical styles depending on the nature and character of material presented. In this type of contribution to NORDES, we ask that authors pay especially close attention to the conference theme and to ways design inquiry may address and develop it - academically, pragmatically and professionally - through creative and critical engagement. Full Papers are limited to maximum of 10 pages (excluding abstract and references). Please limit the file size to 5 MB or less, use the relevant NORDES template and follow its guidelines for preparing your submission. Submit papers at the latest 14 February 2025. For further inquiries on this submission category please contact the chairs. When accepted for review each submission will receive a minimum of two peer- reviews addressing strengths, weaknesses, originality, and significance of the submission. If the submission is accepted for publication, authors are expected to adopt suggested improvements as noted by reviewers and the conference programme committee. A final submission must be fully language edited. Evaluation Full papers will be reviewed based on: Curiosity and expansion: The conference aims to invite curiosity and expansiveness in interpreting its theme. Authors should explain their interpretation of the theme clearly to enable reviewers to make sense of the contribution for the design research community. Originality and articulation: Originality refers to ways the output introduces a new way of thinking about a subject, is distinctive or transformative compared with previous work in the design field. Articluation concerns ways the purpose of the work is clearly connveyed as design research. It includes how the inquiry is positioned theoretically, and how appropriate methodologies, methods and techniques have been selected, applied and re- considered. Important too is reflection on how processes and documentation are presented to show that the purpose has been achieved. Clarity and communication: A paper needs to be clear in its focus, argumentation and supporting research and situated practices. Communication is understood as the ability to convey the focus in choice of research probelamtics and questions, selections of format and genre, and uses of relevant text, visuals and other means. A paper needs to be readable and fully language edited. EXPLORATORY PAPERS Co-chairs: Joanna Boehnert, Enrique Encinas, Astrid Marie Heimer, Henry Mainsah, Laura Popplow, Nicolas Torretta Details The exploratory papers category functions as a channel through which emergent research topics and approaches may be investigated before becoming acknowledged or established in the broader design research community. Here we invite submissions in forms such as, but not limited to, design cases, design fictions, design critiques, pictorials, annotated portfolios, as well as more traditional short papers. Whether text-driven or visual, submissions will differ in format because each seeks the most effective way of presenting an intended contribution to the theme and research community. A submission needs to connect its purpose, argument, claims and design work, together with the mode of inquiry selected. While exploratory, this is still a research paper category. Submissions must refer closely to the conference theme and include a clearly communicated topic, questions and supporting design-based research linked to clear methods, hopefully, with strong foundation in empirical data. We encourage authors to investigate existing and novel concepts in the search for new theoretical openings, possibly drawing new linkages between nearby disciplines. We ask authors to use the NORDES template as a basis, and we strongly recommend exploratory papers to be no longer than 3000 words (excluding abstract and references) with a maximum file size of 5 MB. Submit papers at the latest 14 February 2025. For specific inquiries on this submission category please contact the chairs. Evaluation Submissions will be reviewed with respect to novelty and quality of the research contribution, the consistency, clarity and effectiveness of the presentation, and the contribution paper's relevance for the conference theme. Accepted papers will be published in the digital archive. As part of building the NORDES research community and the formats of exploratory papers, we may ask scholars who submit papers to also review others’ work. WORKSHOPS Co-chairs: Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen, Onkar Kular, Vibeke Sjøvoll, Mari Suoheimo, Danielle Wilde, Signe Louise Yndigegn, Christina Zetterlund Details Workshops will run for a maximum of 3 hours. Workshop proposals need 2 components: a Workshop Description and a Practical Overview. The Workshop Description frames the direction of the exploration, its significance and relevance, as well as the research basis for the workshop. The Workshop Description will be included in the Nordes 2025 Proceedings as a peer-reviewed publication. Following the related NORDES paper template, a Workshop Written Description must be a maximum of 3 pages (excluding abstract and references) and not exceed 5 MB. The Practical Overview is submitted in addition to the Workshop Description. This provides a summary of the practicalities for running the workshop. Please include in the overview the workshop title; motivation; length of the workshop (we suggest a half day or a full day); a tentative programme; a minimum and maximum number of participants; anything participants need to bring; preferred set-up (including space, equipment, supplies, etc.); support needed (technology, materials or other assistance). Please note how you will deal with any related ethical issues, consent and data privacy. The submission will also be evaluated as to whether it can be achieved practically, so this element of the submission needs to be carefully prepared. Submit contributions at the latest 28 February 2025. Evaluation Workshop proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria: Experimental nature: Exploration of a novel and compelling aspect of design research and/or practice that challenges the current boundaries of the field and reveal ways of knowing and becoming that emerge or are otherwise overlooked. Clear planning: The goals, structure and plan for the workshop are clearly presented with explicitly stated expectations regarding resourcing and realistic support needs. Research basis: Evidence of scholarly positioning in a relevant area of design research; connections drawn between practical explorations in the workshop and theoretical concepts and implications. EXHIBITION Co-chairs: Arild Berg, Nicholas Stevens, Einar Stoltenberg, Joshi Suhas Details We welcome the submission of artifacts of various types (physical, digital, prosessual, performances, posters, etc.) that must be accompanied by an explanatory and notational and analytical research framed text (maximum 3000 words excluding abstract and references). All contributions to this category of Design Research Exhibitions must be fully formed, whether conceptual or completed. All costs for shipping and main materials are to be covered by contributors. Curating will be selective and devised by a dynamic on-site team. Evaluation This contribution type will be included in the Proceedings and must provide a research context, related literatures and works, clear link to the conference theme, and an analyis and reflection on what ‘exhibition’ does and means in conducting and communicating design inquiry. Submit papers at the latest 28 February 2025. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Co-chairs: Martina Čaić, Sisse Finken, Maria Göransdotter, Julia Jacoby, Satu Miettinen, Josina Vink Details Doctoral researchers are encouraged to submit work for consideration in any of the main conference types, including this one. Submissions in categories other than the Doctoral Consortium need to be fully prepared with supervisors and co-authors for anonymous submission to anonymous research review at an international level. In contrast, the NORDES Doctoral Consortium (DC) offers PhD students a full-day, on-site and dedicated space for sharing and discussing design research work-in- progress and for learning and engaging fellow students and established researchers. The event follows the main conference so that doctoral candidates may draw on experiences, insights and dialogues from the wider NORDES community. The DC is a venue that works with specific doctoral research projects and positions them in the wider regional and international contexts of design research. The DC supports the generative character of doctoral research and contributes to shaping topics, themes, perspectives, content and methods, along with building networks between students and with larger research projects and institution. The DC also functions as an arena for rehearsal and preparation of material for research publication. Supervisors are welcome to attend. Submission To participate, you are invited to submit a short position paper relating your PhD research. The position paper should be no more than 500 words, ceinclude design work , be mo more than 5MB in size, and contain the following elements: A summary of your PhD project A discussion of how it relates to, or how you would like it to relate to, the NORDES design research community A description of short-term and long-term plans for the continuation of your PhD project. Here are some tips for writing your position paper: Refer to the general Call for Contributions Think of the initial submission as the start of a conversation with peers from the design research community Engage your supervisor/s in thinking about what you want to get out of the Doctoral Consortium and how you could shape your initial submission Be sure to fully edit your submission. Follow up the revision of your paper with your peers and supervisor/s. Submit position papers at the latest 28 February 2025. Evaluation Position papers will be reviewed by the co-chairs of the Doctoral Consortium. We will review your submission for suitability to the NORDES design research community and the conference theme. Following presentations, feedback and reviews will be given by fellow students, attending supervisors and senior design researchers. Revised papers are to be submitted to the co-chairs one month after the event (by Monday 15 September 2025). Preparing, presenting and revising your contribution qualifies for 3 ECTS credits. Final revised position papers will be compiled in a NORDES Doctoral Consortium 2025 booklet (but will not be included in the Conference Proceedings) to be circulated in autumn 2025. Programme Committee Arild Berg Joanna Boehnert Martina Čaić Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen Enrique Encinas Sisse Finken Maria Göransdotter Astrid Marie Heimer Julia Jacoby Onkar Kular Henry Mainsah Einar Sneve Martinussen Satu Miettinen Nevad Pavel Minna Pikkarainen Laura Popplow Vibeke Sjøvoll Synne Skjulstad Nicholas Stevens Einar Stoltenberg Joshi Suhas Mari Suoheimo Kristin Støren Wigum Nicolas Torretta Josina Vink Danielle Wilde Heather Wiltse Signe Louise Yndigegn Christina Zetterlund

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Call for Contributions - Aarhus Decennial Conference 2025
by Eva Eriksson 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ------------------ On 18-22 August 2025, the computing, HCI, and design community at Aarhus University will host the sixth decennial Aarhus conference. Having taken place in 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005 and 2015, the Aarhus Decennial has set new agendas for critical action, theory, and practice in computing. Under the title Computing (X) Crisis, the 2025 Decennial hereby calls for Papers, Critiques, Workshops, Demos, Doctoral Consortium, and Work-in-Progress. https://aarhus2025.org/ Computing (X) Crisis invites contributions that present and discuss the different roles of computing in shaping, understanding, improving, causing, and acting on the human condition in a world subsumed by multiple crises. With the (X) we invite authors to speculate on potential replacements of the universal X - with, after, in, etc - and on what it means to combine the two words. Contributions should offer new agendas and perspectives for influencing and responding to this (X). These might centre on alternatives to current directions in computing, offer methodological or theoretical developments, or present new forms of critical or societal engagements and action. 'Crisis' characterises seemingly perilous moments linked to the climate, economic and social inequality, democracy, relations among societies and, more broadly, a flourishing life for all critters, human and otherwise. And at the same time computing seems omnipresent, providing glimmers of hope but at the same time acting as a source of the troubles. We invite submissions from authors who understand themselves in line with the previous Aarhus Conferences, as well as authors from other fields who wish to contribute to the discourse on improving computing for the human condition in a world of multiple crises. At the conference we will hear from various knowledge areas such as social science, humanities, engineering, computing, design, and interdisciplinary combinations hereof. Important Dates: 20th February 2025: Deadline Papers, Critiques 6th March 2025: Deadline, Workshops 6th May 2025: Deadline, Work in Progress, Demo, Doctoral Consortium 18th - 22nd August 2025: Workshops and Conference Full description of the conference, the theme, the categories, and the organisers: https://aarhus2025.org/

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First Call for Contributions Nordes 2025
by Alma Leora Culén 03 Nov '24

03 Nov '24

First Call for Contributions NORDES 2025 - RELATIONAL DESIGN 11th Nordic Design Research Society (NORDES) Conference We are pleased to invite contributions to the NORDES 2025 Conference on the theme RELATIONAL DESIGN Dates: 6-9 August 2025 Venue: OsloMet University, Oslo, Norway NORDES 2025 symbolises a collective arrival for our design research community at the completion of the first quarter of the 21st century. The conference offers a range of shared spaces and formats for reconsidering what we intended and may have achieved so far in design inquiry. Please consider joining in this celebration and opportunity to further shape the community! This event also invites us to reconsider designing and related practices, pedagogies and research as we look towards the mid-21st century. We do so in the contexts of pervasive, difficult and emergent challenges, compound crises, and deepening complexities and uncertainties about how to achieve and secure substantive and durative transformation in a world undergoing rapid ecological and systemic demands and changes. NORDES 2025 takes up the open theme Relational Design to offer perspectives and means through which we may together investigate and discuss complex dilemmas and current responses, along with design’s futures and futures designing. Below please find the First Call for Contributions to a range of types that we hope will encourage your participation. A Second Call will follow in a month that will contain details of submission types and links to templates and further practical information. Looking forward to your contributions. Please do feel free to circulate this call to your design research colleagues and doctoral students, institution, linked organisations and design research networks. With best regards, Conference co-chairs Prof Alma Leora Culén (University of Oslo), Prof Laurence Habib (OsloMet) & Prof Andrew Morrison (AHO) P.S. For your convenience, find a complete call bellow, as well as a PDF to share with those you think might be interested in receiving the call. First Call for Contributions NORDES 2025 - RELATIONAL DESIGN Contributions are now most welcome for NORDES 2025 The 11th Nordic Design Research Society (NORDES) Conference www.nordes.org<http://www.nordes.org> Wednesday 6 August – Saturday 9 August 2025 Located at OsloMet University, Oslo, Norway ORIENTATION NORDES 2025 marks the 11th bi-annual conference in this series. Launched in 2005, the Nordic Design Research Conferences have been shaped and sustained through commitment and participation from a range of Nordic design research institutions, together with regional and international participants. NORDES 2025 symbolises a collective arrival for this community at the completion of the first quarter of the 21st century. The event offers a range of shared spaces and formats for reconsidering what we intended and may have achieved so far in design inquiry. However, at this juncture, this occasion also invites us to reconsider designing and related practices, pedagogies and research as we look towards the mid-21st century. We do so in the contexts of pervasive, difficult and emergent challenges, compound crises, and deepening complexities and uncertainties about how to achieve and secure substantive and durative transformation in a world undergoing rapid ecological and systemic demands and changes. THEME NORDES 2025 takes up the open theme Relational Design to offer perspectives and means through which we may together investigate and discuss complex dilemmas and current responses, along with design’s futures and futures designing. Relational Design gives attention to ontological multiplicity in evolving processes of becoming and emergence. It accentuates working with possibilities, tensions, paradoxes and contraditictions in re-framing and shaping resonances, alliances, linkages and networks of making and researching. Working within and across difference, Relational Design instantiates interrelations, intersections and distinctions. It facilitates non-normative, situated knowledge experimentation and its generative practices. Relational designing treasures linked, participative and dynamic agency to bring forward pragmatically viable, equitable and bearable transformative potentials and their resonant effects. Designing and researching relationally asks us to consider the shaping of re-directive design as well as analytical and methodological frames and practices linked with values, ethics, concepts and methods centred on repair, regeneration and reinvigoration. This includes how agency be realised when embedded within alliances, networks and webs of relationships to cultivate incipient ventures and bolder analyses in articulating relational design activities and pluralist design research formations. Overall, rethinking and re-making design relationally invites engagement in working with entanglements - of places, zones,values, processes and participation - that are enmeshed in living and regenerative situations, environments, systems and situated acts of worldmaking. The following are open prompts for consideration: How might we re-think and re-work design researching in a way that remains rich and responsible in its situated, exploratory and critical practices while charting pathways and networks, alliances and diversity which contribute to wider structural, systemic and ecological transformation towards sustainable tomorrows? What are the pragmatic, political and creative-critical characteristics of a linked, re-positioned design inquiry that reaches beyond the logics of immediate market gain and commercial extractivist expolitation and their continuing ecological destruction? How might we elicit diverse potentials and possibilities for realising plural, mutual, malleable and participative change in which human and nonhuman entities and ecologies are interwoven and interspersed, reflexively, recursively and regeneratively? What design tools and techniques might be applied to work with temporal and spatial intersections and relations that support shaping creative, multimodal and transductive design literacies in order to steward practices, ethics and cultures of care and environmental justice for near and farflung regenerative futures? In what ways might we rethink and decolonise roles and relations, activities and responses in shaping counter-narratives and collaborative storying in design inquiries that are infused with context-rich alternatives, plural perspectives and multiple mediational formats? What non-essentialist, transdisciplinary design-thick intersectional critiques of circular thinking and economic models might inform socially, technically and ecologically responsible and vibrant sustainable change? SUBMISSION FORMATS NORDES conferences accept full submissions not only abstracts. A range of well-rehearsed submission formats provides both formal analytical frames yet allows for designerly articulations suited to shaping and querying relational designing practices and their research approaches and modes of publication. NORDES 2025 invites the following contributions by type: * Full papers * Exploratory papers * Workshops * Exhibition * Doctoral Consortium All submissions are subject to a pre-review process carried out by the conference chairs and submission category coordinators to ensure coherence and quality. Full and exploratory papers, workshop and exhibition proposals will be subject to double-anonymous peer reviews. One set of full reviews per submission is provided with notifications and guidelines for preparing revised manuscripts for final digital publication. Templates for all submission types will be provided the NORDES 2025 website and also on www.nordes.org<http://www.nordes.org> KEY DATES & REGISTRATION Important dates for contributions Call for contributions: I November 2024 Submissions open: 15 January 2025 Deadline Full and Exploratory papers: 14 February 2025 Deadline Workshops, Exhibitions & Doctoral Consortium: 28 February 2025 Notification to contributors: 31 March 2025 Final revised submissions: 25 April 2025 Final acceptances: 9 May 2025 NOTE: Registration is needed by presenters by 31 May to be included in the programme, archive and proceedings. ‘’’ Conference fee & registration Fees includes the opening event, daily refreshments, lunches and the conference dinner. Registration opens: 10 April 2025 Early Bird: Students, including PhD students, with valid student ID (before 22 May 2025): 250 € Regular participants: (before 22 May 2025): 450 € Standard: Student (closes 12 June 2025): 300 € Regular (closes 12 June 2025): 500 € Late & onsite registration (one fee for full or partial attendance): Student (with valid student ID): 400 € Regular: 600 € PROGRAMME & PUBLICATION Programme Final programme published: 20 June 2025 Programme outline: Wednesday 6 August 2025: Welcome, Keynote, Refreshments and Snacks Thursday 7 & Friday 8 August 2025: Keynotes, Conference presentations and events Saturday 9 August 2025: Doctoral Consortium Publication All accepted submissions will be available as open access publications during and after the conference via the NORDES Digital Archive. Subsequently, publications will be accessible via the online DRS Digital Library and in the format of an integrated Conference Proceedings. ABOUT NORDES 2025 Location In 2025 NORDES returns to Oslo. The conference is located at the OsloMet city centre campus. On this occasion, we have three closely connected conference chairs from three leading design research institutions and a lively local organising committee and a team of Nordic organisers and regional and international reviewers. Conference co-chairs University of Oslo (Prof Alma Leora Culén), OsloMet (Prof Laurence Habib) and AHO (Prof Andrew Morrison) Organisers, reviewers, theme and session chairs, assistants, communication design and sponsors will be posted online at a later date. Previous conferences Papers from and material about earlier NORDES conferences can be found at www.nordes.org<http://www.nordes.org> and also archived in the DRS digital library https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/nordes/

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Join us in our NordiCHI2024 online program
by Claudia Nunez Pacheco 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

Dear colleagues, We invite you to these exciting two online activities at NordiCHI this year.: * The Nordic Sprawl: An online role-play session * The Unconference See below for more information on how to sign up. We hope to see you there! All the best, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco  (On behalf of the NordiCHI team) Read our latest paper: “Articulating Felt Senses for More-than-Human Design: A Viewpoint for Noticing” (Honourable mention at DIS2024) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3661554 Find me: https://linktr.ee/cnunezpacheco ----------- Seats are still left for the online role-play session: The Nordic Sprawl! Sign-up now! Game master: Kevin Dalli CONTEXT OF THE GAME: The cold air of the perpetual northern winter slices through the neon lights of the city districts in the Nordic sprawl. In a future defined by its country sized cities, towering skyscrapers and expansive ruins. The Sprawl is a cyberpunk tabletop RPG where the icy landscapes, littered with remnants of the old world, contrast with glowing cities controlled by omnipotent mega- corporations like Live Corp. You are amongst a team of specialists operating on the fringes of society. This session will be set in the frozen ruins of what was once Umeå. The haunting remnants of Umeå holds secrets for you to discover that could shift the balance of power and are bound to be a stepping stone to achieving your characters goals. MAKE UP YOUR ADVENTURE TOGETHER! You and your team get to choose your place in this high-tech world. Who are you? What is your mission? What makes up the details of this world and how do you fit into it? Perhaps you work for Live Corp, navigating corporate espionage. Maybe you are an academic striving to find answers amidst the chaos. Or perhaps you are rogue outlaws exploiting the cybernetic landscape for your own gains. From bustling overcrowded city districts to desolate wasteland districts, together with the other players, you will decide the adventure and get the chance to immerse yourself in a future where cybernetic enhancements and digital consciousness uploads are common, exploring the ethical implications of advancements in HCI. SIGN UP! Sign-up for one of these two sessions and help shape the future of this neon and chrome-drenched world of tomorrow.https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/e9e6effb-b037- 4ae6-8e43-774f6e255745/select Session one Monday October 14th: 19:00-22:00 / Prep session: Sunday October 13th : 13:00-13:30 Session two Tuesday October 15th: 19:00-22:00 / Prep session: Sunday October 13th, 14:00 – 14:30 ------------------- UNCONFERENCE Join our online Unconference session on Monday 19-22! You can suggest topics for the session here: https://forms.office.com/r/YmqSVH3Af8

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