Probing, mocking and prototyping

Clement, Andrew; McPhail, Brenda; Smith, Karen Louise; Ferenbok, Joseph

doi:10.1145/2347635.2347639

Cited by 24 publications

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“…This new direction in PD does not exhaust itself looking at local communities, as exempliied by the accent on nation-wide issues that characterize the work by Clement and colleagues [26]. Dealing with the theme of mass-surveillance and the organization of a contemporary relevant practice like the digitalization of identity documents, they outline how probes, mock-ups, and prototypes can become relevant instruments for PD willing to raise awareness on the issue at stake.…”

Section: From Participatory Design To Institutioning the Commonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutioning the common

Teli¹,

Lyle²,

Sciannamblo³

2018

Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Full Papers - Volume 1

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Participatory Design (PD) has recently seen eforts to reinvigorate its political capacity, including relections on the relations between its practices and institutions and a renewed political agenda in the contemporary stage of capitalism, such as the one of nourishing the common. This paper addresses both of these directions, questioning how a renewed political agenda of PD intersects the processes of institutioning in which PD itself takes part. To do that, we refer to an European-funded project called Commonfare, aimed at designing a digital platform fostering the emergence of a new economic model in the domain of the institutions of the welfare state. We conclude by discussing how a PD political agenda based on the critique of the current forms of capitalism aligns with or challenges existing institutional frames, supporting the emergence of new institutions. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms; Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing;

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Section: From Participatory Design To Institutioning the Commonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutioning the common

Teli¹,

Lyle²,

Sciannamblo³

2018

Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Full Papers - Volume 1

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“…The creation of choices while facilitating the participation of citizens in the public sector is central to the PD agenda (Björgvinsson, Ehn, and Hillgren, 2012;Clement, McPhail, Smith, and Ferenbok, 2012). Decisions over available choices connect in decision linkages that express the relationship between decisions (Bratteteig and Wagner, 2016).…”

Section: Granholm C P (2016) Social Work In Digital Transfer -Blementioning

confidence: 99%

Datafication in the Public Sector: Exploring the Borders Between Public Services and Citizens

Spilker

Reuter

Broomfield

et al. 2020

SPIR

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This panel presents on-going research from a large research project on digital infrastructures and citizen participation in the Nordic countries, with a focus on the datafication of the public sector and the construction of new borders between public services and citizens. In recent years, governments have faced increasing pressures to become datafied or “data-driven”. A more data-driven public is said to be able to develop a whole new range of services that are envisaged to result in better services, more effective government, more transparency in the public sector, more just service delivery, and the empowerment of citizens. The panel critically examines the challenges that arise when the precepts are to be converted into working services – such as: What kinds of foreseen and unforeseen transformations does the development of new services give rise to? • What kinds of resistance are the new services facing? • What new forms of expertise, enrollment of new actors, organizational restructuring and redelegation of roles and relations are needed? • How are citizens/clients envisioned and inscribed into the scenarios for future public administration? • How are citizens/clients consulted in the design and development of the services? • How are the new services experienced by citizens/clients? In sum, the presentations in this panel span a range of urgent themes related to the construction of borders (and alleys) between public sector services and citizens – from anticipations to effects and efforts.

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“…Participatory design approaches, used within information infrastructuring projects are not new, although there is a lack of focus on the spatial scaling of this type of research [26]. Our work, therefore, serves to look beyond the scope of local communities and organisations, adding to the very few examples of participatory design applied to infrastructuring that attempt to address the element of scale, like in the case of government identification schemes [8].…”

Section: Participatory Design and Infrastructuringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fostering Commonfare. Infrastructuring Autonomous Social Collaboration

Lyle¹,

Sciannamblo²,

Teli³

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Recently, HCI scholars have started questioning the relationship between computing and political economy, with both general analyses of such relationships, and specific design cases describing design interventions. This paper contributes to this stream of reflections, and argues that IT designers and HCI scholars can critically engage with the contemporary phase of capitalism by infrastructuring the emergence of new institutional forms of autonomous social collaboration through IT projects. More specifically, we discuss strategies and tactics that are available for IT designers embracing an activist agenda while infrastructuring autonomous social collaborations. We draw on empirical data from an H2020 EU funded project -Commonfare -that seeks to foster the emergence of alternative forms of welfare provision rooted in social collaboration. In this context, we discuss how the necessary multiple relations that unfold in a project with such ambitions shape both the language and the technologies of the project itself.

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Probing, mocking and prototyping

Cited by 24 publications

References 12 publications

Institutioning the common

Institutioning the common

Datafication in the Public Sector: Exploring the Borders Between Public Services and Citizens

Fostering Commonfare. Infrastructuring Autonomous Social Collaboration

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