SOCIAL DESIGN RESEARCH LAB
CUMULUS JOHANNESBURG & PARTICIPATORY DESIGN CONFERENCE (PDC) 2014
Africa was host to two recent design exchanges – namely the bi-annual Cumulus International Conference and the Participatory Design Conference this autumn. In September, HKDI DESIS Lab Director, Dr Yanki Lee was at the Cumulus International Conference 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa busy lobbying so HKDI may play host to the next Cumulus International Conference in 2016. Dr Lee was at this bi-annual conference also to present two papers on the Democratisation of Design, extracted from HKDI’s Home Study and Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Ageing.
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In furthering the design-education discourse, HKDI’s design researcher stayed on in Africa after the Cumulus Conference to attend the 13th Participatory Design Conference at Windhoek, Namibia. The discourse at the Conference took a deep dive into the darker sides of participation in design processes. Dr Yanki Lee was the programme chair of this conference that drew worldwide participants. She also chaired a session on “critical stakeholder issues” at the Conference.
