IT is now an integral part of our social and cultural lives, and to an increasing extent we all contribute to shaping the technology to our own needs. Over the coming years, researchers from the Department of Aesthetics and Communication and from the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University will be exploring together aspects of and potentials for the transformation of IT users into participants in IT design. The research will be conducted at a new interdisciplinary centre, Participatory Information Technology (PIT).