Participatory Design that Matters—Facing the Big Issues

By Susanne Bødker, Morten Kyng. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2018

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At a time where computer technology is putting human lives and work under pressure, we discuss how to provide alternatives. We look back at Participatory Design (PD) which was originally about possibilities and alternatives as much as it was about specific solutions. The paper aims to revitalize and revise PD to help people influence big issues. The agenda for this is set through proposing a set of key elements for realizing new, important possibilities. We discuss the possible changes of partnership with users, call for a new role of researchers as activists, debate how to work with demanding visions for lasting impact, and democratic control. We focus on high technological ambitions, on deployment of working prototypes, on alliances, and on scaling up, all seen as important for a PD that matters. We conclude the paper with an invitation to participate in the continued discussion, codesign, and realization of a PD that matters.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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Citations in the corpus

• The Participatory Turn in AI Design: Theoretical Foundations and the Current State of Practice (2023, background): “Design processes in which stakeholders are only selecting or evaluating predefined choices have been described as forms of “pseudo-participation” [164, 180] in which stakeholders lack agency in decision-making and agenda setting in the design process [31, 37, 170].”
• The Promise of Empathy: Design, Disability, and Knowing the "Other" (2019, background): “Building on decades of work in participatory design and disability activism (see [[10], [15], [32], [54], [55], [71], [72], [94]]), we argue for developing partnerships in ways that animate new types of collective futures, what Shaowen Bardzell calls “an ambitious, even literary, imagination”…”