Pelle Ehn, is professor at the School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden. He has for four decades (!) been involved in the research field of participatory design and in bridging design and information technology. Research projects include DEMOS from the seventies on information technology and work place democracy, UTOPIA from the eighties on user participation and skill based design, ATELIER from the last decade on architecture and technology for creative environments, and during the last years Malmö Living Labs, on open design environments for social innovation.

The ServDes 2014 Call for Papers is out! We are looking for long and short papers as well as for workshop proposals.
The papers will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted contributions will be published electronically in the conference proceedings and selected best papers will be published within special issues on Service Design in The Design Journal or the Managing Service Quality journal.

We are looking forward many good quality submissions!