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)
François Jégou (SDS – Strategic Design Scenarios, Belgium)
Lucy Kimbell (University of the Arts London, UK)
Stefano Maffei (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Ilaria Mariani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Marzia Mortati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Mudita Pasari (The Design Village, India)
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)
Associated Conversation Chair: Laura Cipriani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Workshop Chairs
Nicholas Baroncelli Torretta (Malmo University, Sweden)
Marta Corubolo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Ravi Mahamuni (TCS Research)
Associated Workshop Chair: Ambra Borin (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Situated Action Chairs
Elisa Bertolotti (Universidade da Madeira, Portugal)
Francesca Piredda (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Associated chair: Chiara Ligi (Politecnico di Milano)
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)
Associated Chair: Maria Maramotti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
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)
Associated Chair: Sanna Marttila (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
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
Aitor Acilu Fernández (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)
Jose Javier Aguilar (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Hasib Ahsan (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Yokster Nutbush Akama (RMIT University, Australia)
Diego Alatorre Guzmán (UNAM + Universidade de Coimbra, Mexico)
Diana Albarrán González (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Catalina Alzate (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Ferran Altarriba Bertran (Escola Universitària ERAM, Spain)
Mariana Amatullo (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
Aloha May Ambe (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Frederick van Amstel (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil)
Javier Antón (Universidad de Navarra, Spain)
Raphael Arar (One Project, United States)
Abd Alsattar Ardati (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Valentina Auricchio (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Areli Avendano Franco (RMIT University, Australia)
Joon Sang Baek (Yonsei University, Korea)
Naveen Bagalkot (Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, & Technology, India)
Manuhuia Barcham (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada)
Veronica Barnes (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)
Sucharita Beniwal (National Institute of India, India)
Elisa Bertolotti (Universidade da Madeira, Portugal)
Massimo Bianchini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Heidi Biggs (Georgia Tech, United States)
Pedro Biz (UERJ, Brazil)
Yana Boeva (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Laura Boffi (SDO, Italy)
Yash Bohre (IDC, IIT-Bombay and MADA, Monash University, India)
Ambra Borin (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Claus Bossen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Andrea Botero (Aalto University, Finland)
Tone Bratteteig (University of Oslo, Norway)
Oliver Bream McIntosh (VUB, Belgium)
Stefana Broadbent (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Sonia Cabral Matos (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Angus Donald Campbell (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR)
Silvia Cantalupi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Andrea Capaccioli (Deep Blue srl, Italy)
Michael Chamunorwa (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Ko-Le Chen (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
Marcos Chilet (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Shilumbe Chivuno-Kuria (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia)
Eunji Cho (Tongji University, China)
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)
Simran Chopra (City St. Georges University of London, United Kingdom)
Jörn Christiansson (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Roberto Cibin (University College Cork, Ireland)
Nazli Cila (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Elisa Cinelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Carla Cipolla (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Laura Cipriani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Brendon Clark (Umeå University, Sweden)
Rachel Clarke (University of the Arts London, United Kingdom)
Henry Collingham (University of Northumbria, United Kingdom)
João Victor Correia de Melo (PUC Rio, Brazil)
Marta Corubolo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Mariana Costard (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil)
Olivier Cotsaftis (RMIT University, Australia)
Adam Cowart (University of Houston, Canada)
Emily Crompton (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)
Diana Dajer (Fundación Corona, Colombia)
Felix Ofori Dartey (Pan-Afrikan Design Institute, Ghana)
Amalia de Götzen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Annalinda De Rosa (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Daniela de Sainz Molestina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Tabea De Wille (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Andy Dearden (Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom)
Ralitsa Diana Debrah (KNUST Ghana, Ghana)
Nabajit Deka (IIT Bombay, Monash University, India)
Chiara Del Gaudio (Carleton University, Canada)
Liliana Del Villar Arias (Escuela de Diseño del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, Mexico)
Sofía Soledad Duarte Poblete (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Melisa Duque Hurtado (Monash University, Australia)
Daniele Dell’Orto (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Oswald Devisch (Hasselt University, Belgium)
Dhriti Dhaundiyal (Doon University, India)
Suhaili Din (Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Christian Dindler (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Jared Donovan (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano (Universidad Privada del Norte, Peru)
Imara Duarte (Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil)
Eva Durall (Oulu University, Finland)
Vincenzo D’Andrea (Università di Trento, Italy)
Nairy Eivazy (KU Leuven/LUCA School of Arts, Belgium)
Marc Fabri (Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom)
Valentina Facoetti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Carlota Fanjul (Universidad de Navarra, Italy)
Jaydon Farao (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Priscila Farias (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Priscila Lena Farias (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Davide Fassi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Mexhid Ferati (Linnæus University, Sweden)
Laura Ferrarello (RCA, Switzerland)
Valentina Ferreri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Anna Filippi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Laura Forlano (Northeastern University, United States)
Marcus Foth (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 (The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom)
María Laura Ramírez Galleguillos (Independent Researcher, United States)
Laura Galluzzo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Lorraine Gamman (UAL, United Kingdom)
Felnunmoi Gangte (IDC School of Design, India)
Luis Garcia (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
Amanda Geppert (University of Chicago, United States)
Elisa Giaccardi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Olga Glumac (Participatory Design Lead at Three o’clock, Portugal)
Miaosen Gong (Jiangnan University, China)
Bishal Goswami (MADA, Monash University, Australia; IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, India)
Anke Gruendel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Erik Grönvall (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Carlos Guerrero Millan (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Juan David Gutiérrez Rodriguez (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
Penny Hagen (Auckland Codesign Lab, New Zealand)
Michael Haldrup (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Yaprak Hamarat (European Commission, Belgium)
Helena Amalie Haxvig (University of Trento, Italy)
Liam Healy (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Niels Hendriks (LUCA School of Arts, Belgium)
Nur Hidayah (Lasalle College of Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, Singapore)
Per-Anders Hillgren (Malmo University, Sweden)
Aidan Hudson-Lapore (SWPS, Poland)
Milagros Hurtig (NTNU, Norway)
Gordon Hush (The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom)
Liesbeth Huybrechts (UHasselt, Belgium)
Sampsa Hyysalo (Aalto University, Finland)
Ndinelao Iitumba (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Roberto Iñiguez Flores (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
Netta Iivari (University of Oulu, Finland)
Alberto Imberti (RMIT, Spain)
Tokushu Inamura (Kyushu University, Japan)
Joseph David Isaacs (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia)
Tania Ivanka (RMIT University, Australia)
Ole Sejer Iversen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Tomasz Jaskiewicz (Hogeschool Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Daniella Jenkins (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Mika Yasuoka Jensen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Carlos Jimenez-Martinez (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
Ian Johnson (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
François Jégou (Strategic Design Scenarios, Belgium)
Michael Kaethler (Istituto Europeo di Design, Italy)
Finn Kensing (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Svenja Keune (Swedish School of Textiles, Denmark)
Lucy Kimbell (University of the Arts London, United Kingdom)
Marianne Kinnula (University of Oulu, Finland)
Laurens Kolks (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Gerd Kortuem (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Ilpo Koskinen (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)
Nantia Koulidou (Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom)
Leonidas Koutsoumpos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Sarah Kushinsky (RMIT, Australia)
Goeun Kuu-Park (Aalto University, Finland)
Roksolyana Kvasnytsya (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine)
Tessa Laven (University of the Arts London, United Kingdom)
Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo (Parsons School of Design, The New School, United States)
Sheng-Hung Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
Yanki Lee (Enable Foundation, United Kingdom)
Yong-Ki Lee (Dongseo University, South Korea)
Donna Leishman (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
Francesco Leoni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Chiara Ligi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Christina Lindeberg (Aalborg University, Sweden)
Joseph Lindley (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Kristina Lindström (Malmö University, Sweden)
Jia-Xin Liu (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Daria Loi (Imperfecta Gallery, United States)
Felipe César Londoño Lopez (Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia)
Alex Jiahong Lu (Rutgers University, United States)
Yuan Lu (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Jin Ma (Tongji University, China)
Donovan Maasz (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia)
Stefano Maffei (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Ravi Mahamuni (TCS Research, India)
Rita Maldonado Branco (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Cyntia Malaguti (FAU USP, Brazil)
Andrea Manciaracina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Maria Maramotti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Ilaria Mariani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Mercedes Martínez González (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Sanna Marttila (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Arun Mascarenhas (IIT Bombay, India)
Claudia Mastrantoni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Francesco Mazzarella (University of the Arts London, United Kingdom)
Ramia Mazé (University of the Arts London, United Kingdom)
Lina Mebus (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
Silviu Medesan (University of Oradea, Romania)
Mahan Mehrvarz (Technical University of Delft, Netherlands)
Oksana Melnyk (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine)
Paula Astrid Mendez Gonzalez (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
Anna Meroni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Paulina Kamila Michnowska (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
Jenna Mikus (Eudae Group; University of Melbourne, Australia)
Vanessa Monna (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Denise Montt-Blanchard (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)
Nicola Morelli (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Marzia Mortati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Simon Muchinenyika (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia)
Ingrid Mulder (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Paula Rodriguez Muller (Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Spain)
Ki-Young Nam (KAIST, South Korea)
Quynh Nguyen (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)
Elisabet M. Nilsson (Malmö University, Sweden)
Georgina Nolan (RMIT, Australia)
Stephanie Ochona (RMIT University, Australia)
Juan Carlos Ortiz Nicolás (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico)
Violet Owen (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Deger Ozkaramanli (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Cecilia Padula (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Teresa Palmieri (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Cristhian Parra (United Nations Development Programme, Paraguay)
Leonardo Parra-Agudelo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Mudita Pasari (The Design Village, India)
Ankit R. Patel (University of Minho, Portugal)
Andriy Pavliv (Lviv Politechnic National University, Ukraine)
Sarah Pennington (Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom)
Denise Regina Percequillo Hossom (Gonzaga University, Italy)
Alicia Eva Morales Pereyra-García (Universidad de la Laguna, Spain)
Daniela Petrelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Robert Phillips (Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom)
Louise St Pierre (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada)
Francesca Piredda (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Alexander Polzin (Northwestern University, United States)
Laura Popplow (TH Koeln, Germany)
Gheysa Prado (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil)
Rebecca Price (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Lucia Rampino (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Shilpi Reema Rath (University of the Arts London, United Kingdom)
Carolina Reichert (Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia, Brazil)
Diego Rivera (Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Francesca Rizzo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Kasper Rodil (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Andres Rodriguez (LIFIA Research Center – Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Jean Rosa (Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau, Brazil)
Juan de la Rosa (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Eugenia Rosina (MOME, Hungary)
Anton Poikolainen Rosén (Stockholm Univeristy, Sweden)
Stanislav Roudavski (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
David Sánchez Ruano (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
Elisa Rubegni (Lancaster University, Switzerland)
Ricardo Rugeles (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
Monica Di Ruvo (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)
Joanna Saad-Sulonen (Aalto University, Finland)
Juan Salamanca (University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Pablo Calderón Salazar (IE University, Spain)
Mariana Salgado (ICOS ERIC/ Universidad de Buenos Aires, Finland)
Carl Di Salvo (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
Eliana Sanchez-Aldana (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
Daniela Sangiorgi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Juan Sanin (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
Sven Schade (Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy)
Mario Scharfbillig (Joint Research Centre, Belgium)
Mariacristina Sciannamblo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Peter Scupelli (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
Priyanka Sebastian (University of Oulu, Finland)
Carla Sedini (IULM, Italy)
Juhri Selamet (American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
Daniela Selloni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Melis Örnekoğlu Selçuk (Ghent University, Belgium)
Pedro de Senna (Associação Brasileira de Futuristas, United Kingdom)
Anna Seravalli (Malmö University, Sweden)
Bibiana Oliveira Serpa (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Agnivesh Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Nima Herman Shidende (The University of Dodoma, Tanzania)
Emma Sicher (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Dasha Simons (UvA, Netherlands)
Jesper Simonsen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Abhigyan Singh (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Geertje Slingerland (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Rachel Charlotte Smith (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Nicos Souleles (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus)
Lydia Stamato (Berea College, United States)
Ilma Stankeviciute (SDU, Denmark)
Angelika Strohmayer (University of Northumbria, United Kingdom)
Åsa Ståhl (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Reem Talhouk (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
Laryssa Tarachucky (Federal Institute of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Virginia Tassinari (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Deborah Tatar (Virginia Tech, United States)
Sarah Teasley (RMIT University, Australia)
Khemmiga Teerapong (Bangkok University, Thailand)
Maurizio Teli (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Mamello Thinyane (University of South Australia, Australia)
Martín Tironi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Oscar Tomico (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Carlos Torres (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
Nathaly Pinto Torres (Aalto University, Finland)
Nicholas Baroncelli Torretta (Malmo University, Sweden)
Violeta Tsenova (Hasselt University, Belgium)
Sergio Dávila Urrutia (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk (Ural Federal University, Russia)
Francesca Valsecchi (Tongji University, China)
Uttishta Varanasi (Aalto University, Finland)
Francesco Vergani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Guri Birgitte Verne (University of Oslo, Norway)
Emilija Veselova (Aalto University, Finland)
Lucia Viganego Ballesteros (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Beatrice Villari (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Brenda Vertiz Marquez (Aalto University, Finland)
Torben Volkmann (Universität zu Lübeck, Germany)
Valentina Volpi (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
Alexander Voss (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Tanaya Vyas (IIT Bombay, India)
Kentaro Watanabe (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
Eunji Woo (KAIST, South Korea)
Joyce Yee (Northumbria University, United Kingdom)
Signe Yndigegn (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Cristina Zaga (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Yulu Zhang (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
PDC: PEACE, DIALOGUE, COEXISTENCE
Designing for living together.
The Participatory Design Conference 2026.
WHERE
Campus Bovisa Durando
Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy