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PARTICIPATORY DESIGN CONFERENCE 2O26

PDC: PEACE, DIALOGUE, COEXISTENCE.

16-19 June 2026 | Politecnico di Milano

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PDC 2026 Proceedings, which will include all conference documents, will be published in open access with ACM Digital Library, Association for Computing Machinery.
PEACE, DIALOGUE, COEXISTENCE

Designing for living together

The conference will explore how participatory design and co-design are used to foster dialogue, to create or reconcile communities, to give voice to people or entities who have none, to nurture solidarity, to negotiate, to create contexts of conviviality, to tackle even the unmanageable issue of wars and conflicts due to societal, political, economic, and climate reasons.

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WHERE

Campus Bovisa Durando at Politecnico di Milano. Milan, Italy  |  June 2026

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The Host

Learn more about Polimi’s Design System.

Committees

The team behind PDC2026.

About PDC

Get to know the conference and explore its proceedings.

Practical information

Coming soon. Traveling to Milan, accommodation, getting around, and more.

Discover Milan

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TIMELINE

Important dates

1

Publication of Call for Full Papers

18th March 2025

2

Submission deadline for Full Papers

16th June 2025 (4th June 2025)

3

Publication of Call for Exploratory Papers

30th June 2025 (30th July 2025)

4

Publication of Call for Workshops, PDC Places, Doctoral Colloquium, and Situated Actions

30th July 2025

5

Notification of first round reviews for Full Papers

9th September 2025 (29th August 2025)

6

Submission deadline for revised Full Papers

16th October 2025 (7th October 2025)

7

Submission deadline for Exploratory Papers

16th October 2025 (7th October 2025)

8

Submission deadline for Workshops, Situated Actions, PDC Places, and Doctoral Colloquium

16th October 2025 (7th October 2025)

9

Notification of acceptance for Situated Actions

Late November 2025 (7th November 2025)
10

Notification of acceptance for PDC Places

Late November 2025
11

Notification of acceptance for Full Papers, Exploratory Papers, Workshops, and Doctoral Colloquium

December 2025
12

Camera-ready deadline for all submissions

January 2026
13

Conference

16-19 June 2026

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PDC: PEACE, DIALOGUE, COEXISTENCE

Designing for living together.

The Participatory Design Conference 2026.

WHERE

Campus Bovisa Durando

Politecnico di Milano

Milan, Italy

CONTACT US
pdc2026-design@polimi.it
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