Participatory design and "democratizing innovation"
By Erling Björgvinsson, Pelle Ehn, Per-Anders Hillgren. Participatory Design Conference, 2010
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Participatory design has become increasingly engaged in public spheres and everyday life and is no longer solely concerned with the workplace. This is not only a shift from work oriented productive activities to leisure and pleasurable engagements, but also a new milieu for production and innovation and entails a reorientation from "democracy at work" to "democratic innovation". What democratic innovation entails is currently defined by management and innovation research, which claims that innovation has been democratized through easy access to production tools and lead-users as the new experts driving innovation. We sketch an alternative "democratizing innovation" practice more in line with the original visions of participatory design based on our experience of running Malmö Living Labs - an open innovation milieu where new constellations, issues and ideas evolve from bottom-up long-term collaborations amongst diverse stakeholders. Two cases and controversial matters of concern are discussed. The fruitfulness of the concepts "Things" (as opposed to objects), "infrastructuring" (as opposed to projects) and "agonistic public spaces" (as opposed to consensual decision-making) are explored in relation to participatory innovation practices and democracy.
Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science
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In Management of Technology and Innovation
In Sociology and Political Science
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- Infrastructuring in participatory design (2014, background): “… in which continuous co-creation can be realized, and in which those involved pay attention to, and work with, the way technology connects to wider systems of socio-material relationships in the form of the collective interweaving of people, objects, and processes (Björgvinsson et al., 2010).”
- Infrastructuring and the formation of publics in participatory design (2013, background): “Part of the distinction between PD for useful systems and PD as infrastructuring comes by broadening the view of what counts as innovation, moving away from a technocratic view of innovation toward one that includes social innovation: innovation that arises out of social interactions and action that”