Participatory Design for Sustainable Social Change
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Title
Participatory Design for Sustainable Social Change
Abstract/Description
Tendencies in contemporary participatory design suggest a move away from engagement of limited stakeholders in preconfigured design processes and predefined technology outcomes, towards more complex and long-term engagement with heterogeneous communities and larger ecologies of social and technological transformation. Building on core values of participatory design, we introduce three dimensions of engagement of scoping, developing and scaling that we argue can be essential in developing a holistic approach to participatory design as a sustainable practice of social change. The dimensions foreground central aspects of participatory design research that are discussed in relation to a long-term project exploring design and digital fabrication technologies in Danish primary and secondary education.
Author/creator
Date
In publication
Series
Volume
59
Pages
6-36
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Theoretical
Keywords
Open access/full-text available
No
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
0142-694X
Citation
Smith, R. C., & Iversen, O. S. (2018). Participatory Design for Sustainable Social Change. Design Studies, 59, 9–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2018.05.005
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