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Full & Exploratory Papers

Dear all, ACM has published Volumes I and II of the PDC2026 Proceedings. Volume I has all the Full Papers, while Volume II has the Exploratory Papers and Doctoral Colloquium...

PDC Places Exhibit

B9 Building Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
PDC Places

Open from 9am to 6pm from Wednesday to Friday, a showcase of the PDC Places that took place before the conference week.  

Situated Actions on Campus and Worldwide Exhibit

B2 Building - Ground floor Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
Situated Actions

Open from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm from Wednesday to Friday, three Situated Actions will take place on campus, as well as a showcase of the Situated Actions that took...

Registration

Bovisa Durando Campus, Politecnico di Milano Via Giovanni Durando, 10, Milan

Registration is open from Wednesday to Friday from 08:30 am to 6:00 pm. We recommend registering between 08:30 and 09:15 to be on time for the day’s activities.

Kick-Off Day 02 and Keynote by Lucas Mertehikian

B9 Building - Room De Carli Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano

Opening and welcome for the second conference day, followed by a keynote by Lucas Mertehikian. Keynote: Life with Plants: Design Lessons from the Plant Humanities By Lucas Mertehikian  PhD, Director of the...

Full Paper Session 5: Post-Anthropocentrism and Participation: AI

B9 Building - Room De Carli Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
Full Papers

Full Papers presented: 1149: Hizca, a Critical Video Game and Indigenous Co-creation. Authors: Torres-Parra, Carlos Roberto; Tobón-Giraldo, Isabel Cristina; Ortegón-Pérez, Germán. 1156: Frames of Participation: Design as Enquiry in Exploring...

Situated Actions | Nuovo Armenia

Nuovo Armenia Via Livigno, 9, Milan
Situated Actions

Presented in person at Nuovo Armenia, near the campus at Via Livigno, 9. Open to all conference participants, no booking is required but it is encouraged to help the teams...

Workshops

B3 Building Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
Workshops

Learn more about the workshops here. Workshops: 1444: Exploring the Entanglement of Participatory Design, Spatiality and Place Organisers: Jörn Christiansson, Thomas Binder, Gabriela Quintana Vigiola. Location: Building B3, Room WK...

Morning Coffee Break

B3 Building Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano

Coffee is served from 11:15 am to 12:15 pm. The Break Area is open from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm.

Conversation 5.1. Participation and the Troubles with Intelligence

B9 Building - Room De Carli Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
Full & Exploratory Papers

Discussion of Full Papers from Full Paper Session 5 and Exploratory Papers (listed below). In this 19th edition of the PDC, Full and Exploratory papers will be organized into Conversations, that...

Polimi Campus Visit

B9 Building Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano

Meet us at the registration desk of the B9 Building for a guided Campus Visit. Meet us at 1:00 pm!

Lunch Break

B9 Building Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano

Lunch is served from 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm, from Wednesday to Friday.

Town Hall Meeting

B9 Building - Room De Carli Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano

The PDC TOWN HALL MEETING is the meeting during which the conference organisers and the PDC Advisory Board facilitate a conversation among all PDC attendees about lessons to be learned...

An Elephant in the Room: A Participative Visualisation of the Collaborations Between Politecnico di Milano and Companies Fueling Israel’s Violence Against Palestinians.

B2 Building - Ground floor Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
Situated Actions

Join the authors of Situated Action "An Elephant in the Room: A Participative Visualisation of the Collaborations Between Politecnico di Milano and Companies Fueling Israel’s Violence Against Palestinians" (1457) for...

Full Paper Session 6: Post-Anthropocentrism and Participation: Multispecies

B9 Building - Room De Carli Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
Full Papers

Full Papers presented: 1111: What counts - Thinkering with Visual Mapping Toward Relational More than Human Temporality in Participatory Design. Author: Zohar, Hadas. 1179: Where Wombats Dominate and Humans Accommodate:...

Workshops

Bovisa Durando Campus, Politecnico di Milano Via Giovanni Durando, 10, Milan
Workshops

Learn more about the workshops here. Workshops: 1287: Digital Participatory Toolkit for Conflict-Sensitive Planning in Mining Regions Organisers: Marijana Pantić, Tamara Maričić, Ana Perić, Dušanka Milosavljević, Milovan Vuković. Location: Building...

Afternoon Coffee Break

B3 Building Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano

Served from 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm. The Break Area is open from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Conversation 6.1: Expanding Relationality from a More-than-Human Perspective

B2 Building - Room B2.1.8 Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
Full & Exploratory Papers

Discussion of Full Papers 1111 and 1238 from Full Paper Session 6 and Exploratory Papers (listed below). In this 19th edition of the PDC, Full and Exploratory papers will be organized...

Conversation 6.2: Care and Response-Ability in More-than-Human Worlds

B2 Building - Room B2.1.10 Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
Full & Exploratory Papers

Discussion of Full Papers 1179 and 1208 from Full Paper Session 6 and Exploratory Papers (listed below). In this 19th edition of the PDC, Full and Exploratory papers will be organized into Conversations,...

Conversation 6.3. Not-Knowing and Open-Ended Practices in the Pluriverse

B2 Building - Room B2.1.15 Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
Full & Exploratory Papers

Discussion of Full Papers 1221 and 1231 from Full Paper Session 6 and Exploratory Papers (listed below). In this 19th edition of the PDC, Full and Exploratory papers will be organized...

PDC Places Presentation

B9 Building - Room De Carli Politecnico di Milano - Campus Bovisa Durando, Via Giuseppe Candiani, 72, Milano
PDC Places

An introduction and sharing moment of the PDC Places that took place before the conference by the PDC Places Chairs.

Social Dinner

CASVA Via Isernia 5 (QT8 metro stop), Milano

The conference social dinner will be held at CASVA. CASVA, the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, is a cultural institute of the Municipality of Milan established in...