Opening Up Technologies to the Social: Between Interdisciplinarity and Citizen Participation

Nascimento, Susana; Pólvora, Alexandre

doi:10.1162/desi_a_00228

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“…the aggregation of social materials). [5] More representative individuals are employed to directly participate in design process in participatory design, while collaborative design emphasizes more on inter-organizational standard communication, collaborative promotion and resource complementarity as an integral part of the overall system.…”

Section: Social Design Concept and Participatory Design Modementioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the Practice of Social Design Concept in the Protection and Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage Handicraft

Xie¹,

Huang²

2021

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2020)

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Further study on theory and widespread practical projects involving social design in recent years enrich its connotation. With bamboo-weaving design project of rural revitalization workstation, a school-enterprise cooperation project between Hushang Township, Anxi, and Fuzhou University, as an example, this paper elaborates the social design concept and participatory design method reflected in the project. The feasibility and efficiency of participatory design methods in such scenarios are evaluated based on the actual project results, in an attempt to propose social innovation design patterns in the context of rural revitalization.

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Section: Social Design Concept and Participatory Design Modementioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the Practice of Social Design Concept in the Protection and Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage Handicraft

Xie¹,

Huang²

2021

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2020)

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“…When practitioners or scholars argue within maker cultures for lay people to become active designers, producers and distributors of technologies, goods and services, something more is surely added to the large realm of technological actions (Nascimento 2014; Nascimento and Polvora 2013). It is thus fundamental to understand not only how they are able to voice and materialize their ethical, cultural or political concerns, but also how this may change the definitions of the culture they are referring to.…”

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Maker Cultures and the Prospects for Technological Action

Nascimento

Pólvora

2016

Sci Eng Ethics

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Supported by easier and cheaper access to tools and expanding communities, maker cultures are pointing towards the ideas of (almost) everyone designing, creating, producing and distributing renewed, new and improved products, machines, things or artefacts. A careful analysis of the assumptions and challenges of maker cultures emphasizes the relevance of what may be called technological action, that is, active and critical interventions regarding the purposes and applications of technologies within ordinary lives, thus countering the deterministic trends of current directions of technology. In such transformative potential, we will explore a set of elements what is and could be technological action through snapshots of maker cultures based on the empirical research conducted in three particular contexts: the Fab Lab Network, Maker Media core outputs and initiatives such as Maker Faires, and the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA). Elements such as control and empowerment through material engagement, openness and sharing, and social, cultural, political and ethical values of the common good in topics such as diversity, sustainability and transparency, are critically analysed.

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“…I consider the café a makerspace because it fosters and relies on participation over a longer time span, including the sharing of skills among its participants, as similarly identified in peer production spaces. What I call 'alternative spaces of peer production' are spaces that offer means to produce locally, such as 'Fab Labs', 'hackerspaces' and 'makerspaces' (Maxigas and Troxler 2014;Nascimento and Polvora 2013). They are driven by groups of passionate people, sharing production facilities and place individuals into dialogue to share expertise and produce artefacts through 'peer to peer' exchange (Seravalli 2014;Mota 2011).…”

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‘Hey, I can do that too!’: How skilful participation thrives in a co-sewing café

Hirscher

2020

CoDesign

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Participants' skills are highly important for a democratic design process, enabling everyone to participate and skilfully use designed tools and methods. This is particularly relevant for matters of participation in extended participatory design (PD) contexts that grow in scope and time span, such as in peer production communities. However, relatively little PD research has been devoted to the relation between skills and participation. Using a case rich in practice, a co-sewing café, this paper aims to understand the spectrum of participation by deeply examining the diversity and interrelation of the skills the participants practised in the café. To analyse the case, the paper compiles a tentative analytical framework based on PD and peer production literature. I ran and documented this 'research through design' experiment over eighteen months, hosting hundreds of participants. The diversity of the participants' skills was elucidated through the rich materials from the practice and then placed along a learning spectrum of skilful participation. The paper concludes with an overview of the different skills practiced and developed in the café and suggests that designing for skill development can contribute to sustaining participation in such contexts.

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Opening Up Technologies to the Social: Between Interdisciplinarity and Citizen Participation

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Research on the Practice of Social Design Concept in the Protection and Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage Handicraft

Research on the Practice of Social Design Concept in the Protection and Development of Intangible Cultural Heritage Handicraft

Maker Cultures and the Prospects for Technological Action

‘Hey, I can do that too!’: How skilful participation thrives in a co-sewing café

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