Welcome are participants from all areas of research in PD, interested in exploring the role and position of ethnography and design anthropology in processes of participatory engagement and design. Especially they invite participants who are engaged in research through design, theoretical perspectives, and case studies relating to ethnography, design anthropology, and user research for 21st century challenges and/or digital technologies.

In the workshop we explore theoretical positionings and methodological approaches to ethnography and anthropology in PD. The following themes will be used to discuss relations between researchers and the Other, creating objects and contexts of design through design anthropologic approaches to societal challenges:
• Proximity versus Distance
• Understanding versus Emergence
• Empathy versus Critique
• Description versus Intervention
• Transdisciplinarity vs. Professional Boundaries

DEADLINES & SUBMISSION
21 July submission of position statements (2 pages)
28 July notification of acceptances
5 Aug registration for PDC2014

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