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PDC26

Committees

Conference Chairs

Joon Sang Baek (Yonsei University, Korea)
Teresa Franqueira (Aveiro University, Portugal)
Anna Meroni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Programme Chairs

Davide Fassi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Laura Galluzzo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Daniela Selloni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Conversation Chairs

(Former Full and Exploratory Paper Chairs)

Stefana Broadbent (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Angus Campbell (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Felix Ofori Dartey (PADI – Pan-Afrikan Design Institute, Ghana)
Laura Forlano (Northeastern University, USA)
Elisa Giaccardi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Juan David Gutiérrez Rodriguez (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
François Jégou (SDS – Strategic Design Scenarios, Belgium)
Lucy Kimbell (University of the Arts London, UK)
Stefano Maffei (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Marzia Mortati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Mudita Pasari (The Design Village, India)
Francesca Rizzo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Juan de la Rosa (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Stanislav Roudavski (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Ricardo Rugeles (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
Sven Schade (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
Peter Scupelli (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Martín Tironi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Oscar Tomico (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Francesco Vergani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Beatrice Villari (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Workshop Chairs

Nicholas Baroncelli Torretta (Malmo University, Sweden)
Marta Corubolo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Ravi Mahamuni (TCS Research)

Situated Action Chairs

Elisa Bertolotti (Universidade da Madeira, Portugal)
Francesca Piredda (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Juan Sanin (RMIT University, Australia)

Doctoral Colloquium Chairs

Andrea Botero (Aalto University, Finland)
Priscila Lena Farias (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Lucia Rampino (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Rachel Charlotte Smith (Aarhus University, Denmark)

PDC Places Chairs

Nicholas Baroncelli Torretta (Malmo University, Sweden)
Annalinda De Rosa (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Per-Anders Hillgren (Malmo University, Sweden)
Bibiana Oliveira Serpa (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Virginia Tassinari (TU Delft, Netherlands)

Publication Chairs

Vincenzo D’Andrea (Università di Trento, Italy)
Mika Yasuoka Jensen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Jin Ma (Tongji University, China)

Artful Integrators Award Chairs

Anna Seravalli (Malmö University, Sweden)
Frederick van Amstel (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil)

The David Hakken Participatory Design Grant Chairs

Maurizio Teli (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Melisa Duque Hurtado (Monash University, Australia)

Chair of Conference Experience and Visual Identity

Andrea Manciaracina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Programme Committee

(More programme committee members are progressively being confirmed and announced in their roles).

Aitor Acilu Fernández (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)
Yoko Akama (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
Ferran Altarriba (ERAM – Universitat de Girona, Spain)
Mariana Amatullo (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
Javier Antón (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)
Raphael Arar (One Project, USA)
Joon Sang Baek (Yonsei University, South Korea)
Manuhuia Barcham (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada)
Nicholas Baroncelli Torretta (Malmö University, Sweden)
Sucharita Beniwal (National Institute of India, India)
Elisa Bertolotti (Universidade da Madeira, Portugal)
Heidi Biggs (Georgia Tech, USA)
Claus Bossen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Andrea Botero (Aalto University, Finland)
Tone Bratteteig (University of Oslo, Norway)
Stefana Broadbent (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Angus Donald Campbell (Hong Kong PolyU, Hong Kong)
Eunji Cho (Tongji University, China)
Jaz Choi (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)
Carla Cipolla (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Brendon Clark (Umeå University, Sweden)
Rachel Clarke (University of the Arts London, UK)
Marta Corubolo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Olivier Cotsaftis (RMIT, Australia)
Adam Cowart (University of Houston, USA)
Emily Crompton (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Vincenzo D’Andrea (University of Trento, Italy)
Sergio Dávila Urrutia (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Ralitsa Diana Debrah (KNUST, Ghana)
Chiara Del Gaudio (Carleton University, Canada)
Amalia De Goetzen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Annalinda De Rosa (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Juan De La Rosa (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Daniela De Sainz Molestina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Andy Dearden (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Oswald Devisch (Hasselt University, Belgium)
Monica Di Ruvo (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)
Carl Di Salvo (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano (Universidad Privada del Norte, Peru)
Imara Duarte (Federal University of Paraiba – UFPB, Brazil)
Melisa Duque Hurtado (Monash University, Australia)
Eva Durall (Oulu University, Finland)
Marc Fabri (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
Priscila Lena Farias (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Davide Fassi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Laura Ferrarello (Royal College of Art, UK)
Laura Forlano (Northeastern University, USA)
Marcus Forth (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Teresa Franqueira (Aveiro University, Portugal)
Carlo Franzato (PUC Rio, Brazil)
Christopher Frauenberger (Interdisciplinary Transformation University, Austria)
Ana Karla Freire de Oliveira (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil)
Albert Fuster (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
Laura Galluzzo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Lorraine Gamman (University of the Arts London, UK)
Luis Garcia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Amanda Geppert (University of Chicago, USA)
Elisa Giaccardi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Miaosen Gong (Jiangnan University, China)
Erik Grönvall (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Juan David Gutiérrez Rodriguez (School of Government, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
Nicolai Brodersen Hansen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Niels Hendriks (LUCA School of Arts, Belgium)
Nima Herman Shidende (The University of Dodoma, Tanzania)
Nur Hidayah (Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore)
Milagros Hurtig (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Per-Anders Hillgren (Malmö University, Sweden)
Gordon Hush (The Glasgow School of Art, UK)
Liesbeth Huybrechts (UHasselt, Belgium)
Maria Cristina Ibarra (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Tokushu Inamura (Kyushu University, Japan)
Roberto Iñiguez Flores (TEC de Monterrey, Mexico)
François Jégou (SDS – Strategic Design Scenarios, Belgium)
Carlos Jimenez (Universidad de la Laguna, Spain)
Ian Johnson (Newcastle University, UK)
Svenja Keune (Swedish School of Textiles, Sweden)
Lucy Kimbell (University of the Arts London, UK)
Marianne Kinnula (University of Oulu, Finland)
Ilpo Koskinen (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Leonidas Koutsoumpos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Roksolyana Kvasnytsya (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine)
Sheng-Hung Lee (MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Yanki Lee (Kolding, Denmark)
Yong-Ki Lee (Dongseo University, South Korea)
Donna Leishman (Northumbria University, UK)
Joe Lindley (Lancaster, UK)
Kristina Lindström (Malmö University, Sweden)
Daria Loi (Imperfecta Gallery, USA)
Yongqi Lou (Tongji University & Shanghai University of Engineering Science, China)
Jin Ma (Tongji University, China)
Stefano Maffei (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Claudio Magalhaes (PUC Rio, Brazil)
Ravi Mahamuni (TCS Research, India)
Cyntia Malaguti (PUC Rio, Brazil)
Andrea Manciaracina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Ezio Manzini (DESIS Network Association, International)
Mercedes Martínez González (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Sonia Matos (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Tuuli Mattelmaki (Aalto University, Finland)
Francesco Mazzarella (University of the Arts London, UK)
Oksana Melnyk (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine)
Anna Meroni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Alicia Eva Morales Pereyra-García (Universidad de la Laguna, Spain)
Nicola Morelli (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Marzia Mortati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Ingrid Mulder (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Felix Ofori Dartey (PADI – Pan-Afrikan Design Institute, Ghana)
Violet Owen (Lancaster, UK)
Değer Özkaramanlı (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Ankit Patel (University of Minho, Portugal)
Teresa Palmieri (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Leonardo Parra-Agudelo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Mudita Pasari (The Design Village, India)
Andriy Pavliv (Lviv Politechnic, Ukraine)
Robert Phillips (Royal College of Art, UK)
Francesca Piredda (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Alexander Polzin (Northwestern University, USA)
Gheysa Prado (Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR, Brazil)
Lucia Rampino (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Francesca Rizzo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Kasper Rodil (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Paula Rodriguez Muller (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
Stanislav Roudavski (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Andres Rodriguez (LIFIA – Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Ricardo Rugeles (Pontifica Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia)
Juan Salamanca (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Mariana Salgado (ICOS ERIC / Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
David Sánchez Ruano (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
Juan Sanin (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
Sven Schade (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
Mario Scharfbillig (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
Mariacristina Sciannamblo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Peter Scupelli (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Carla Sedini (IULM, Italy)
Ole Sejer Iversen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Daniela Selloni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Anna Seravalli (Malmö University, Sweden)
Jesper Simonsen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Rachel Charlotte Smith (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Nicos Souleles (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
Reem Talhouk (Northumbria University, UK)
Luca Tangi (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
Virginia Tassinari (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Deborah Tatar (Virginia Tech, USA)
Faraja Teddy Igira (Institute of Finance Management, Tanzania)
Maurizio Teli (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Cristobal Tello (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Mamello Thinyane (University of South Australia, Australia)
Martín Tironi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Oscar Tomico (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk (Ural Federal University, Russia)
Francesca Valsecchi (Tongji University, China)
Frederick M. C. Van Amstel (UTFPR, Brazil)
Francesco Vergani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Lucia Viganego Ballesteros (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Beatrice Villari (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Mika Yasuoka-Jensen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Joyce Yee (Northumbria University, UK)
Signe Yndigegn (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

PDC: PEACE, DIALOGUE, COEXISTENCE

Designing for living together.

The Participatory Design Conference 2026.

WHERE

Campus Bovisa Durando

Politecnico di Milano

Milan, Italy