Dear Colleagues, This January 12-14, Swinburne University and SPIRE at Southern Danish University join to host the 2012 Participatory Innovation Conference in Melbourne, Australia. This is a great opportunity for those interested in co-creation and participatory design. I'd be grateful if you would share this with colleagues at your university. Best regards, Ken Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS University Distinguished Professor Dean, Faculty of Design Swinburne University of Technology -- Why should you attend the 2012 Participatory Innovation Conference http://www.pin-c2012.org in Melbourne, Australia, the 12-14 of January? (Even if you are not presenting.)* The HOW of including diverse stakeholders into your innovation processes is more challenging than ever. Crowd-sourcing, open digital platforms, peer panels, dialogue circles are some of the potential ways in which internal and external stakeholders can be brought into the innovation process. But how do you include them in ways that are respectful, equitable, democratic, effective, value-adding, and fun? You will learn how at PIN-C 2012 through five distinct tracks on Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Innovation, Evolving Design Anthropology, Making Design and Analysing Interaction, Organising Participatory Innovation, and Designing Innovative Business Models. But that’s not all. PIN-C 2012 is an investment in designing your organisation’s future. In the future, businesses, governments, and community organisations will require greater participation of more diverse people into decision-making processes. At PIN-C 2012, you will be gain access to cutting-edge practical and theoretical tools to design participatory innovation processes that will suit your organisation and its many stakeholders for years to come. PIN-C 2012 is a great value. It offers two and half days of exciting programming, including five international keynotes, over 60 'dialogue-starter' presentations, workshops, and interactive exercises; inclusive breakfast and lunches, free Lilydale, VIC hotel and train station shuttle bus, networking opportunities, all included in your ticket price. PIN-C 2012 is an exceptional global event. Co-hosts Swinburne Faculty of Design http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/ and SPIRE http://www.sdu.dk/om_sdu/institutter_centre/c_spire?sc_lang=en University of Southern Denmark, are global educational institutions that know how to make academic research relevant to design and business. With participants from all over the world, you will share ideas with the best participatory innovation thinkers and doers from Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Finland, India, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, UK, and USA. You’ll meet amazingly diverse groups of people. No where else, but at PIN-C 2012, will you ever have the opportunity to network with indigenous activists, design anthropologists, designers, interaction analysts, business managers, futurists, and entrepreneurs—all united by a passion for participatory innovation. So are you convinced to join us at PIN-C 2012? Don’t wait a minute longer as there are spaces for only 30 participants per track, visit the PIN-C 2012 website at www.pin-c2012.org and register today. Dori Tunstall and Jacob Buur, PIN-C 2012 Co-Chairs *Format of message provided by 2011 AIGA Conference PIVOT. Thanks AIGA!