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

Smith, Rachel Charlotte

Iversen, Ole Sejer

Date

2018

In publication

Design Studies

Series

Participatory Design

Volume

59

Pages

6-36

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Theoretical

Keywords

design process

participatory design

design practice

educational technology

user participation

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

0142-694X

DOI

10.1016/j.destud.2018.05.005

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (ScienceDirect)

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

Cited in

Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences: Theoretical, Practical, and Empirical Perspectives

Abbreviation

Design Studies

Item sets

OB Citations - Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences

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