DCitizens Summer School Attendees 2024
DCitizens is returning with a five-day training event in Lisbon, Portugal, that will explore the strategies and techniques to engage and work with communities to co-create, deploy, and evaluate civic technologies that seek to empower citizens in service provision and civic participation. This event will include a one-day Doctoral Consortium (13th July 2025) and a four-day Summer School (14th-18th July 2025).
Themes for 2025:
Our theme for our 2025 training event are “Exploring the relationships between Design, Technology, and Social Justice” and “The Next Generation of Civic Technologies”.
Summer School 14th-18th July 2025:
The Summer School has been designed for students studying, working on research, or interested in Human-Computer Interaction and Community Informatics; and will take place on 14th-18th July 2025 at the University of Lisbon (Lisbon).
Through a series of seminars, workshops and hands-on activities, you will have the opportunity to go engage with real-world challenges and collaborate with members of local communities, which aim to provide you with some of the skills to work with communities and organisations to explore and realise Civic Technologies values.
Register your attendance for the Summer School by 14th June 2025:
Summer School Agenda 2025
| Time (GMT+1) | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 09h30 | Registration | |||
| 10h00 | Welcome & Introduction to Community Projects | Seminar: Exploring The Next Generation of Civic Technologies | Seminar: Exploring the Relationships between Design, Technology, and Social Justice | Group Work: Final Zine Changes |
| 11h00 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 11h30 | Discussion: Get to Know the Partners | Workshop: Exploring The Next Generation of Civic Technologies | Workshop: How to Create Zines for Collaborative Project Understanding | Discussion: Small Group Discussions with Partners and Zines |
| 12h30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14h00 | Group Work: Mapping the Project Space | Hands-on: Mapping the Technology Ecosystem | Group Work: Creating Zines | Wrap-Up: Reflections on the Week |
| 15h30 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 16h00 | Hands-on: KaraokAI Singing Presentation & Poster Session | Group Work: Investigative Work | Discussion: Group to Group Critical Friends | Social Time |