Part of the discussion will focus on whether and how 'participation' in the development process, in the traditional PD sense, can have any real meaning when the ultimate 'users' are so removed from the scene. A related question is how support for later PD in customization can be addressed during package design. An overview paper on PD in the curriculum is followed by a panel discussing actual teaching experiences. This session serves as a useful introduction to the education workshop on Friday morning. This panel addresses systems development issues when going beyond the single, stand alone PD project, to attempt to change, in a participatory, large, chaotic, heterogenous organizations.
Dinner is included with conference registration.
On the role of representations in distributed design - The social and technical organization of design practices. The Challenge of Interdisciplinary and inter-occupational communication. This panel addresses the extensive changes now taking place in work and workplaces. Specifically it will examine the ways jobs are changing and the implications this has for both the participatory design process and resulting systems. This closing session deals with the political character of PD practices and theory.