Co-designing platform collectivism

Design at hackathons: new opportunities for design research

“…They either presented a pattern of design behaviour as observed at a hackathon, or a structure to be followed at a hackathon. Other motivations included identifying the purpose of hackathons (Komssi et al 2015), studying the effectiveness of hackathon-like events in teaching design (Artiles & LeVine 2015) and identifying potential benefits of hackathons (Carroll & Beck 2019). A few of the reviewed publications do not aim to study design activity at hackathons, but rather to describe how hackathons are used to find solutions to complex problems, such as accelerating healthcare innovation (Alamari et al 2019), involving citizens in rural community development (Soligno et al 2015) and supporting diversity in software development (Filippova et al 2017).…”

“…Five publications discuss 'civic hackathons'(Johnson & Robinson 2014;Soligno et al 2015;Gama 2017;Taylor et al 2017;Damen et al 2019), meaning citizens are involved in solving problems related to their communities. Three hackathons are about healthcare(Piza et al 2018;Alamari et al 2019;McGowan 2019), and another three center around the sustainability topics of water quality(Carroll & Beck 2019), biodiversity(Thomer et al 2016) and ecology(Lodato & DiSalvo 2015). Finally, one hackathon is in each of the following areas: mental health(Birbeck et al 2017), education(Artiles & Lande 2016), film and television(Karlsen & Løvlie 2017), aircraft design(Saravi et al 2018), diversity awareness(Safarova et al 2015), museum artefact design(Rey 2017), student life(Aryana et al 2019), greeting card reconceptualisation(Page et al 2016) and app development and financial innovation…”

Local tech mediators - a human access point to global crowdfunding platforms

“…Digital platforms have permeated society, rendering services efficiently; however, their neo-liberal values have been questioned (Brown, Choi, and Shakespeare-Finch 2019). Instead of platform capitalism, the co-design community has supported alternatives, such as platform collectivism, being mutual beneficial for stakeholders (Carroll and Beck 2019). Co-design projects have facilitated a more equal participation, such as a citizen-centric cityplanning (Light and Seravalli 2019); and commonfare.net, where underprivileged populations have been able to share their stories, and find dignity and meaning (Bassetti et al 2019).…”

Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring

“…All the papers to some extent demonstrate co-design practice that directly engages with the tensions of collaboration and commodification identified above. In particular, articles by Bassetti et al (2019), and Carroll and Beck (2019) present very different perspectives on the use and experience of co-design in this context. Bassetti et al (2019) bring social cooperation to the forefront of the design process of 'Commonfare', to promote a welfare of the common, a politically engaged project that has involved the participation of many people across three European countries as pilot sites.…”

“…Bassetti et al (2019) bring social cooperation to the forefront of the design process of 'Commonfare', to promote a welfare of the common, a politically engaged project that has involved the participation of many people across three European countries as pilot sites. Where the Commonfare project seeks to support participation on an inter-country scale across Europe, Carroll and Beck (2019) present a study of involvement between their research team and water quality experts across multiple co-design hackathons in a small area of the USA. Carroll and Beck (2019) contribution highlights the role and visibility of resources and stakeholders in their co-design process, in particular the contribution of stakeholders to the research goals, questions and the parameters for collaboration.…”