Participatory Design that Matters—Facing the Big Issues

Bødker, Susanne; Kyng, Morten

doi:10.1145/3152421

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“…Recently there has been a renewed call [9,23,40,67] for PD to regain its political zeal as a means to address the many environmental and societal challenges we face. These are brought about by our extensive reliance on physical technology and infrastructure, and on virtual social and economic networks, impacting on very significant issues such as climate change and environmental degradation, threatening privacy and freedom of choice, altering employer and consumer relationship, and affecting humans and all other beings we share the Earth with.…”

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confidence: 99%

P for Politics D for Dialogue

Chisik

Mancini

2019

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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Participatory Design strives to open up the decision-making process and empower all those who may be affected by design. This is opposed to Design as a non-participatory process, in which the power to make decisions is vested in the hands of one group to the possible detriment of others. In this paper we interrogate the nature, possibilities and limitations of Participatory Design through the perspective of Child Computer Interaction (CCI) and Animal Computer Interaction (ACI). Due to the cognitive and communication characteristics, and to the social and legal status of their participants, researchers in these communities have to contend with and challenge existing notions of participation and design. Thus, their theories and practices provide a lens through which the nature and goals of Participatory Design can be examined with a view to facilitating the development of more inclusive participatory models and practices. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Interaction design → Interaction design process and methods → Participatory design

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

P for Politics D for Dialogue

Chisik

Mancini

2019

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

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“…Modern PD adapted to technology being commonplace [4,8]. With it, the focus moved from the Politics to the project-level relationship between designers and stakeholders, and the various tools, techniques, and facilitation involved in realizing it [4,15,18]. But the assumption of participants' agency such as in promoting self-interests through the use of those participatory tools remained (e.g.…”

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p for political: Participation Without Agency Is Not Enough

Gautam

Tatar

2020

Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 2

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Participatory Design's vision of democratic participation assumes participants' feelings of agency in envisioning a collective future. But this assumption may be leaky when dealing with vulnerable populations. We reflect on the results of a series of activities aimed at supporting agentic-future-envisionment with a group of sextrafficking survivors in Nepal. We observed a growing sense among the survivors that they could play a role in bringing about change in their families. They also became aware of how they could interact with available institutional resources. Reflecting on the observations, we argue that building participant agency on the small and personal interactions is necessary before demanding larger Political participation. In particular, a value of PD, especially for vulnerable populations, can lie in the process itself if it helps participants position themselves as actors in the larger world.

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“…In a recent article, BÃÿdker and Kyng [2] propose an agenda for Participatory Design (PD) that Matters. One point they make is the need to scale PD to make it relevant for the design of large IT systems and infrastructures.…”

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Scaling Participation - What Does the Concept of Managed Communities Offer for Participatory Design?

Hochwarter

Farshchian

2020

Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 2

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This paper investigates mechanisms for scaling participation in participatory design (PD). Specifically, the paper focuses on managed communities, one strategy of generification work. We first give a brief introduction on the issue of scaling in PD, followed by exploring the strategy of managed communities in PD. This exploration is underlined by an ongoing case study in the healthcare sector, and we propose solutions to observed challenges. The paper ends with a critical reflection on the possibilities managed communities offer for PD. Managed communities have much to offer beyond mere generification work for large-scale information systems, but we need to pay attention to core PD values that are in danger of being sidelined in the process.

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Participatory Design that Matters—Facing the Big Issues

Cited by 199 publications

References 62 publications

P for Politics D for Dialogue

P for Politics D for Dialogue

p for political: Participation Without Agency Is Not Enough

Scaling Participation - What Does the Concept of Managed Communities Offer for Participatory Design?

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