Summer School 2006

After Ivrea, Roma, Split and Timisoara the 5th Convivio Summer School came to Edinburgh, August 14th-25th.

The theme this year was: "Technology, Enjoying or Enduring it? Visions, Boundaries and Transformations in Extending or Replacing Human Capacities."
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About

Convivio is a Thematic network of researchers and practitioners from many backgrounds (computer science, human sciences, design, business) developing a broad discipline of human-centered design of digital systems for everday life.

Human-centered design encompasses not only the physical, cognitive and practical needs of the individual but also the broader social, emotional and cultural needs that make up a rich and satisfying life.
We are convinced of the pressing need to augment the technology development process: to draw on the skills and knowledge of many disciplines, and to focus it on the people whose lives will be shaped by it in order to decide what to design and how it should be designed to fit them well.

You can dowload the Convivio Manifesto here (48 KB, PDF)

What Convivio aims to do.

For professionals, researchers, designers, product developers:

Develop and distribute the methods and tools to create people-centred technologies and encourage people to use them freely.
Develop methods and a shared vocabulary for working across disciplines.
Provide for for exchange of expertise, experience and ideas.

For citizens and decision-makers:

Create visions of desirable qualities of life in the digital environment, and a roadmap for reaching them.
Develop persuasive rationales, case studies and demonstrators for the value of this approach in order to grow the discipline among professionals and decision-makers in ICT development at all levels.

For education and training:

Influence and support university and training curricula to grow the next generation of human-centred designers.

Thematic networks.

Thematic networks are an instrument of the Information Society Technologies Directorate of the European Union, designed to strengthen scientific and technological excellence on a particular research topic by integrating at European level the critical mass of resources and expertise needed to provide European leadership and to be a world force in that topic.
Each network has a mission to spread excellence beyond the boundaries of its partnership, with training being an essential component of this mission.