|
Title:
|
THE DESIGNERS ROLE IN REVITALIZED
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN AGENDAS |
|
Author(s):
|
Bernardo Alves Villarinho Lima and Leonelo Dell Anhol Almeida |
|
ISBN:
|
978-989-8533-91-3 |
|
Editors:
|
Katherine Blashki and Yingcai Xiao |
|
Year:
|
2019 |
|
Edition:
|
Single |
|
Keywords:
|
Participatory Design, Science, Technology and Society Studies, Critical Theory of Technology |
|
Type:
|
Full Paper |
|
First Page:
|
11 |
|
Last Page:
|
18 |
|
Language:
|
English |
|
Cover:
|
|
|
Full Contents:
|
click to dowload 
|
|
Paper Abstract:
|
Over the last four decades, Participatory Design (PD) gained traction in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) communities
around the world. The discipline became recurrent in HCI publications, the tools and methods it offers present alternatives
in attempts to design with persons, and not only for them. The PD research community is challenged by the notion that
current practices focus on the production of artifacts, rather than designing for democracy and empowerment of partner
communities. Countering technocratic trends, researchers around the world seek to renew the discipline by proposing
alternative research agendas, towards a critical and politically engaged discipline. Designers present themselves as actors
and actresses in these processes, and understanding how they operate can inform future works on how design practices can
promote empowerment despite the power gap between participants and designers. This paper explores papers from the
2018 Participatory Design Conference (PDC), seeking state-of-the-art on how researchers perceive themselves in their
practices, and proposes a set of suggestions on how to plan participation in a situated manner. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
