From the call:

PDC 2004 - Participatory Design Conference
ARTFUL INTEGRATION: INTERWEAVING MEDIA, MATERIALS, AND PRACTICES
July 27-31, 2004 - Toronto, CANADA

The Participatory Design Conferences, held every two years since 1990, have brought together a multidisciplinary and international group of researchers, designers, practitioners, users, and managers who adopt distinctively participatory approaches in the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

The overall theme of the 2004 conference grows out of the earlier papers, books, and proceedings of the PDC conferences. It recognizes that an essential ingredient in design practice is the working together of multiple, heterogeneous elements. Whereas conventional design approaches emphasize the role of the designer and the creation of singular products, artful integration calls attention to the collective interweaving of people and artifacts to achieve practical, aesthetic or emancipatory syntheses.

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