The Art of Participatory Design

PDC 2010 poses the challenge of participation; it asks us to consider how we conceptualise, critque and work  with participation, and how we engage meaningfully with people, places and situations. The Art of Participatory Design is a programme of creative experiments that draws together art and design practice in order to shed fresh light on this challenge.

The programme includes: the Take Part workshop, a research discussion for artists and designers involved in participatory practices; X – an exhibition, by renowned polymath Natalie Jeremijenko (AU/USA); Remnant Emergency Artlab – a collaborative project led by Australian artist Keith Armstrong (QUT), which explores urban habitats for Australian wildlife and OWL – a series of participatory workshops in which participants imagine and build open and speculative body-devices, led by Kristina Andersen (NL) and Danielle Wilde (AU/JP).

The Art of Participatory Design is curated by PDC 2010 Art Chairs Lian Loke and Lizzie Muller and supported by the UTS Research Centres for Contemporary Design Practice and Human Centred Technology Design.