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Artful Infrastructuring in Two Cases of Community PD

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Artful Infrastructuring in Two Cases of Community PD

Abstract/Description

In this paper, we use the notions of artful integrations and infrastructure to analyze two cases of community Participatory Design 'in the wild'. Though the communities are quite different on the outside, they bear surprising similarities when it comes to collaboration in technology design. We identify several features of how the community members artfully integrate their everyday materials, tools, methods and practices into collaborative processes of infrastructuring. The notions of 'artful integrations' and 'infrastructure' sensitize our analysis towards a more conceptual understanding on information system development as multi-relational: socio-material, socio-historical and processual. We conclude by suggesting some refinements to the notions in the context of community PD.

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Series

Pages

20–30

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Resource type

Background/Context

Medium

Print

Background/context type

Conceptual

IRE Approach/Concept

Open access/free-text available

Yes

Peer reviewed

Yes

ISBN

978-1-58113-851-1

Citation

Karasti, H., & Syrjänen, A.-L. (2004). Artful Infrastructuring in Two Cases of Community PD. Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Participatory Design: Artful Integration: Interweaving Media, Materials and Practices – Volume 1, 20–30. https://doi.org/10.1145/1011870.1011874

Resource status/form

Published Text

Scholarship genre

Empirical

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