Design thinking with the users, is a new way to understand and create new products and services. This new conception of design is leading to new larger ideas and more complex methods in order to improve this process. The new participatory methods, generates new design concepts and also, different experiences in the project. Since the development of technologies and social media the power of collaboration has become a way of thinking, which is changing the landscape of design. Participation of users and customers in the development of products and services started to be an important issue in Design Management literature in the last years. This paper presents the evolution of the terms related to participation, their use and interrelations. We consider that they are relevant nowadays, for the interpretation and communication of the user's role in the design as developers of relevant innovations in products and processes.Since our aim is to provide and increase understanding of participation in design, across the design community and product development, we want to clarify these concepts.
En los últimos años, las universidades han tomado un rol protagónico en innovación y transferencia tecnológica en las comunidades. El objetivo de este artículo es una reflexión teórica a través de una breve actualización en torno a la figura de laboratorios vivientes en un espacio universitario como una herramienta para expandir las posibilidades de diseño, fabricación y distribución de tecnologías asistivas de forma sostenible, a través de la revisión de literatura reciente sobre los tópicos planteados. Los resultados denotan que, desde talleres de diseño industrial universitarios, pueden surgir espacios de diálogo entre las tecnologías asistivas alternativas, la industria, el emprendimiento y la comunidad, al potenciar cuatro elementos claves de los laboratorios vivientes: financiamiento, valores, comunicación e infraestructura. Se concluye que, considerar los laboratorios vivientes como el siguiente paso evolutivo de talleres universitarios potenciarían el desarrollo de tecnologías asistivas en un entorno sostenible.
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