Design multiple: How different configurations of participation matter in design practice

Fischer, Björn; Östlund, Britt; Peine, Alexander

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2021.101016

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“…The finding that learning cannot be simply assumed as a design outcome, but rather is embedded in collective design activities structured by power relations and socio-material features, we contend, marks an important agenda point for contemporary debates revolving around co-design and older participants [17,18]. Although previous studies have begun to cast doubt on the link between co-design activities with older people and specific design outcomes (e.g., [27,[67][68][69]), our findings underscore the relevance of the settings of design practices themselves in structuring the type of learning outcomes that can be obtained. Specifically, we observed how different design settings enacted different learning outcomes.…”

Section: Design With Older Peoplementioning

confidence: 75%

Co-Design as Learning: The Differences of Learning When Involving Older People in Digitalization in Four Countries

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Involving older people through co-design has become increasingly attractive as an approach to develop technologies for them. However, less attention has been paid to the internal dynamics and localized socio-material arrangements that enact this method in practice. In this paper, we show how the outcomes that can be achieved with user involvement often pertain to learning, but their content can differ significantly based on how the approach is implemented in practice. Combining explorative, qualitative findings from co-design conducted in four countries (Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden), we illustrate how different types of learning occurred as design workshops engaged the experiences and skills of older people in different ways. Our findings make visible how learning can be a core outcome of co-design activities with older adults, while raising awareness of the role of the power relations and socio-material arrangements that structure these design practices in particular ways. To benefit from the full wealth of insights that can be learned by involving older people, deeper knowledge is needed of the implicit features of design, the materials, meanings, and power aspects involved.

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Section: Design With Older Peoplementioning

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“…This confusion stems from no shared definition of what PD is. Researchers and designers use the term PD to signify different understandings of power and empowerment, different levels of politics in the design process, different groups of people, different methods, different goals of participation, and different amounts and configurations of participation (Ertner, Kragelund & Malmborg 2010; Halskov & Hansen 2015; Fischer, Östlund & Peine 2021).…”

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An introduction to radical participatory design: decolonising participatory design processes

Udoewa

2022

Des. Sci.

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Outside of community-led design projects, most participatory design processes initiated by a company or organisation maintain or even strengthen power imbalances between the design organisation and the community on whose purported behalf they are designing, further increasing the absencing experience. Radical participatory design (RPD) is a radically relational answer to the coloniality inherent in participatory design where the community members’ disappointment is greater due to the greater expectations and presencing potential of a ‘participatory design’ process. We introduce the term RPD to show how research and design processes can be truly participatory to the root or core. Instead of treating participatory design as a method, a way of conducting a method, or a methodology, we introduce RPD as a meta-methodology, a way of doing any methodology. We explicitly describe what participation means and compare and contrast design processes based on the amount of participation, creating a typology of participation. We introduce ‘designer as community member’, ‘community member as designer,’ and ‘community member as facilitator’ models and provide characteristics for the meta-methodology of RPD.

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“…In contending with this issue, Fischer et al ( 2021b ) have indicated how different “configurations of participation”, as a result of specific participatory methods, can yield very different images and outcomes. As Fischer et al ( 2021a ) explore in a separate article, this form of participatory design focuses on knowledge transfer between designers and users.…”

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“…However, we also see inconsistent efforts to evaluate how imagery is captured and processed. In contending with Fischer et al's ( 2021b ) configurations of participation and a question of “ what characterizes ‘better’ images of aging created by designers? ” in light of the many images we can form, hypothesis-making offers this article an additional layer of reflexivity.…”

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“…This research engages with a broader, ongoing discourse around participatory design practices, which emphasizes the configuration of participation, seeking heightened transparency about biases and the roles of designers (Fischer et al, 2021b ). Fischer et al ( 2021a ) consider how participation is a central concern when the design process is seen as a collaborative effort, with participatory design's attention to empowering people “by bringing designers together with other stakeholders” (p. 1).…”

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Gaining resolution when creating imagery of aging

Sheahan

2022

Front. Sociol.

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In seeking to support healthy aging, designers have struggled to reduce their assumptions and biases toward older adults, been seen to interpret the worlds of later life through unfiltered imagery, as well as engage with stigmas, ultimately diminishing the technologies they construct. This article seeks to critically analyse this state-of-the-art from a design research perspective while engaging with the growing interdisciplinary study of aging and technologies. Toward this, we proposition “resolution” as a concept indicative of the level of detail that seeks to characterize the fidelity that representations of later life have. This concept is explored through a cultural probe study that investigated the sentiments of several older Australians regarding the inequities and social isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing a diary alongside photovoice and mapping tasks, the study captured perceptions of social technology, practices, networks, and wellbeing, offering a diverse and complex picture of aging and technology. Through reflexive thematic analyses of some of these materials, this case study offers designers pathways to understanding and including older adults in their work. In determining the resolution of these images of aging, we discuss how transparency about the limitations and qualities of such participatory methods through incorporating reflexivity can influence the degree of detail such imagery gains. Ultimately this concept builds on the notion of participation configuration, supporting designers to realize better images of aging and representations of later life.

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Design multiple: How different configurations of participation matter in design practice

Cited by 16 publications

References 37 publications

Co-Design as Learning: The Differences of Learning When Involving Older People in Digitalization in Four Countries

Co-Design as Learning: The Differences of Learning When Involving Older People in Digitalization in Four Countries

An introduction to radical participatory design: decolonising participatory design processes

Gaining resolution when creating imagery of aging

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