The public draft of the DIS 2026 Program is now live! 🌼

Start exploring the draft schedule and get a first look at the exciting papers, pictorials, workshops, and more coming to DIS 2026. https://programs.sigchi.org/dis/2026

Room assignments will be added in a later phase, so stay tuned for further updates.

#DIS2026 #DesignResearch #HCI

DIS 2026 workshops are shaping up to be incredible ✨
I’ve already found the workshop I want to register for — how about you? 👀

From AI, more-than-human design, care, participation, sustainability, movement, embodiment, and creative methods, there’s a lot of exciting conversations happening this year.

🗓️ Don’t forget to register for workshops!
🔗 https://dis.acm.org/2026/attending-workshops-at-dis2026/
#DIS2026 #HCI #InteractionDesign #DesignResearch

Anyone else on here doing CoDesign research? Seeking to connect.

Especially keen to find other folks in #KaurnaYarta #Adelaide

#CoDesign #DesignResearch #Design

How can we design for distributed publics? 🌍
New open access paper in CoDesign Journal proposes a hotspot method to move #ParticipatoryDesign beyond face to face workshop, identifying material interventions spots. Bringing together Actor-Network Theory and Design.

Would be great to get some feedback!
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2026.2660149
#DesignResearch #DigitalEthnography #Codesign

Design's most distinctive cognitive contribution — abductive reasoning — remains largely confined to the studio, the workshop, the project timeline. We theorize it extensively (Kolko, Zingale, Dorst), we recognize it as the engine of design synthesis, the mechanism through which incomplete observations become structured hypotheses, through which uncertainty generates possibilities.
Yet when it comes to collective contexts — communities navigating complex territorial challenges — abduction stays trapped in episodic formats, limited by the well-known pathologies of participation: who gets to be in the room, for how long, with what resources, and whose complexity gets actually processed.

This is the gap we explored in the paper presented at the Italian Design Society last June with Michele Zannoni and Flaviano Celaschi. The Systemic Relational Insight (SRI) framework, born from my doctoral research at the University of Bologna, proposes a hybrid intelligence process — community and machine — designed to scale the abductive dimension of sensemaking across broader publics, longer timeframes, and thicker layers of data and knowledge.
The core idea: integrate qualitative knowledge from situated workshops with quantitative data and scientific references, generate candidate insights and submit them to community validation (bringing scale in the formula to reach who didn't attend). An insight here is never a single statement delivered by an algorithm. It's a cluster containing multiple versions, each traceable to its genealogy of sessions, voices, and contexts, each carrying different degrees of community consensus, data support, and scientific consistency.
That simple.

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Got something urgent to say about crisis, design, or the world we’re walking through?📣

For DDCon 2026 – By Design and By Disaster, we’re looking for 7 people, initiatives or small collaborations to share stories and practices that reclaim the future while co-creating it in the present.

7 minutes. Any format.
Talk. Performance. Song. Live act.
As long as it fits within 7 minutes.

We’re interested in bold, honest, unexpected contributions that can inspire action, strategy and research now.

📩 Send your application to [email protected]

🗓 Apply by March 30

Format:
→ 1 A4 page (text + supporting visuals)
Include: short intro, 3–5 keywords, and a brief abstract connecting your idea to this year’s focus.

This isn’t about polished presentations.
It’s about sharing something real.

#DDCon2026 #7x7Talks #ByDesignAndByDisaster #CallForContributions #DesignResearch #AcademicMastodon

Workshop deadline extended ✨

The call for workshops for By Design and By Disaster 2026 (DDCon) now closes on 7 March 2026.

If you’ve been developing an experimental, critical or practice-based workshop around design & disaster this is your extra time.

Details here:
https://designdisaster.unibz.it/call-for-workshops-by-design-and-by-disaster-2026/

Please share within your networks.

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