Mixing disciplines in teaching participatory design practices

In this workshop, we will explore new and alternative ways of teaching participatory systems development and design practices at the university level in inter- and multi-disciplinary contexts. We will bring up questions around, and challenges and opportunities of, developing boundary-crossing university education, focusing on PD practices for systems developers and designers. The workshop will build on our experiences from jointly developing and teaching the interdisciplinary course Work Practice, Design and Development of Soft-ware (WPDDS) over the past three years. Depending on the interests of the workshop participants, we will choose and explore a few of the questions raised, comparing experiences and sharing ways of making interdisciplinary teaching of Participatory Design practices work.