(Apologies for cross-posting) 2025 PhD Seminar on Participatory Design: Contemporary Agendas Deadline: 8. May 2025 This course for PhD students provides an introduction to contemporary Participatory Design as a particular field of interdisciplinary research and practice. Participatory Design grew out of a concern for democracy and empowerment of users in the development and implementation of digital technology in the workplace. Today, the political values and ambitions of mutual learning through engagement and democratic innovation tunnels the field into diverse settings and challenges of society and the planet. Participants will be introduced to contemporary agendas regarding user participation in the development of new digital technologies, as well as the diversification of Participatory Design to new domains and non-Western regions. During three days (and 6 modules) the participants will be introduced to diverse themes and PD agendas by researchers engaged in developing the field. Lectures will take point of departure in the Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design (2025) and include the following theme: the politics of participation; scaling of Participatory Design; evaluation of Participatory Design projects and initiatives; decolonisation and co-design with communities; PD and emerging technologies, AI, and sustainable futures. See: https://au.phd-courses.dk/CourseCatalog/ShowCourse/1756?returnUrl=%2F Venue: Department of Digital Design & Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark Dates: 4-6 June 2025 Application deadline: 8 May 2025 Course fee: None ECTS: 3,5 Organisers: Rachel C. Smith & Claus Bossen, Digital Design & Information Studies, Aarhus University Contact: rsmith@cc.au.dk<mailto:rsmith@cc.au.dk>; clausbossen@cc.au.dk<mailto:clausbossen@cc.au.dk> Lecturers Associate Professor Rachel Charlotte Smith (Aarhus University) Professor Claus Bossen (Aarhus University) Professor Liesbeth Huybrecht (UHasselt) Professor Jesper Simonsen (Roskilde University) Associate Professor Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) Dhriti Dhaundiyal (Doon University)