Being awake to<i>Ma</i>: designing in between-ness as a way of becoming with

Akama, Yoko

doi:10.1080/15710882.2015.1081243

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“…It can support decision-making and distributions of power, equitable collaboration and interpersonal exchange essential for sustainable impact (Hillgren, Seravalli, and Emilson 2011;Light 2010;Pirinen 2016; Ssozi-Mugarura, Blake, and Rivett 2017; Warwick 2017; Yee and White 2015). Where a rational assessment of a situation is difficult and potential outcomes are unknown, trust can also facilitate action despite uncertainty, a common concern in co-design work oriented towards non-reductive approaches to societal challenges (Akama 2015;Akama, Pink, and Sumartojo 2018;DiSalvo et al 2011;Manzini 2015). Relevant for co-design is how sociological literature frames trust as enabling people to commit and engage creatively while generating risk and vulnerability (Barbalet 2009;Giddens 1994;Luhmann 1979;Mollering 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socio-materiality of trust: co-design with a resource limited community organisation

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Trust is an essential if often implicit aspect of co-design particularly when working in community-based, political and sensitive settings. Current co-design literature, however, remains fairly limited focusing on interactions between people as primary agents of trust. Drawing on research conducted with a poverty alleviation charity based in the UK, we illustrate how trust and distrust can also be mediated through material resources used in the codesign process. The paper highlights the significance of materials in negotiating the interdependencies of trust, in how distrust can be leveraged and trust can be supported through sensitive sociomaterial exchange conducted with resource limited community organisations.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socio-materiality of trust: co-design with a resource limited community organisation

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“…In his case, the listener, and in our case, the designer, needs to be brave, as 'you run the risk of being changed yourself' (Rogers 1961, 333). As designers, we can willingly step into the voids that are not yet known and be open to potentiality (Akama 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Unboxing empathy: reflecting on architectural design for maternal health

2020

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Co-design aims to bring designers and end-users together to improve the quality of design projects. In this paper, we study how the distance between designers and users can be reduced with an empathic approach particularly in settings where it is significant. By investigating various approaches on empathy in design and architecture, we were able to retrospectively understand different aspects of the design process of a maternity ward project in which we were involved. Engaging a theoretical clarification of empathy as a multi-dimensional concept made it possible to empirically explicate diverse difficulties that designers face when trying to employ empathy as a guiding philosophy in their work. As a result, we identified three registers of empathy on a varying scale of depth that can be integrated in the design process. Our work shows that various registers of empathy can complement each other or be utilised in different circumstances where one form might be more appropriate than another. By presenting these registers, we seek to unbox the different views on empathy and draw attention to the potential of empathic engagement when aiming for depth in a project.

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“…Using creative intervention as a form of inquiry into what to design next, this form of PD aligns with design through practice methods that take place in the field (Koskinen, Zimmerman et al, 2011), in everyday settings where social norms are broken to generate reflections 'on what counts' (Halse & Boffi, 2016). These are reflections after an intervention, which lead to something else and reflect a contemporary understanding of design processes that can no longer be neatly delineated by a start and finish (Akama, 2015). Furthermore, given recent interest in design anthropological understandings in the making of possibilities, uncertainty is increasingly viewed as generative in participatory design (Akama, Pink, & Sumartojo, 2018, p. 33).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is a realm of possibility, which is articulated especially clearly through the concept of, "'between-ness' . how we are transforming and becoming together" (Akama, 2015). Indeed, "a design anthropological approach to participatory design seeks to understand 'what it is like to be immersed in the moments of change and how this is constantly evolving and becoming going beyond epistemic conventions we often see in discourses of Actor Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies" (Akama et al, 2018, p. 6).…”

Section: Epistemics Of Pd Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%