Include 2007: designing with people

Strategies, stories and systems for user participation in design

International conference on inclusive design
Royal College of Art, London, UK
2-4 April 2007

We are pleased to announce that Include 2007, our fourth international conference on inclusive design, will take place at the Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2 to 4 April 2007. There will be a welcome reception on Sunday 1 April.

Include 2007 is the fourth Include conference and promises to be an exciting forum that builds on previous conferences in two ways - by making user participation in all its diversity central to the design discourse and by broadening the constituency for inclusive design among those professions and groups normally outside consideration.

The theme of this year is designing with people - strategies, stories and systems for user participation in design. The conference aims to engage those involved in all aspects of user-centred design practice, research and advocacy - from consumers, user groups, designers, design managers and clients to voluntary sector organisations, researchers and policy makers.

As interest in inclusive design grows, we need to be more experimental, challenging and discursive in our approach. Inclusive design practice needs to be taken forward with new methods, audiences and practitioners. Conference submissions are invited in relation to this aspiration.

The call for papers is now closed.

Timetable (revised 17 January 2007)

• 31 October 2006: deadline for all submissions
• 20 December 2006: announcement of reviewer’s decisions
• 17 January 2007: conference registration open to authors
• 7 February 2007: authors’ deadline for amended submissions / conference registration open to all
• 1 April 2007: opening reception
• 2-4 April 2007: Include 2007