Child as Protagonist: Expanding the Role of Children in Participatory Design
By Ole Sejer Iversen, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Christian Dindler. International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2017
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We suggest that a commitment to political participatory design defines a new role for children in participatory practices--the role of protagonist. The objective here transcends the goal of giving children a voice in design, and addresses more broadly how children can be empowered to shape technological development and critically reflect on the role of technology in their practices. This re-accentuation of political participatory design to formulate the protagonist role is important, because it deepens our understanding of how children may be empowered through design. It is also timely in view of current societal challenges pertaining to training children in twenty-first century skills. Based on a case study, we illustrate how the protagonist role, based on political participatory design, can change the objective, process, and outcome measures of the design process.
Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Education, Literature and Literary Theory
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- Participatory Design that Matters—Facing the Big Issues (2018, background): “In [47, p. 27], the project researchers, Iversen, Smith, and Dindler, discuss how a commitment to political participatory design defines a new role for children in participatory practices – the role of protagonist.”
- Digital transformation of everyday life – How COVID-19 pandemic transformed the basic education of the young generation and why information management research should care? (2020, background): “We should also aim to empower them to start more proactively shaping and making our digital futures as protagonists (Iivari & Kinnula, 2018; Iversen et al., 2017), who not merely accept digitalization as is but critically reflect on it and try to shape its trajectories.”