PDC

This paper proposes two allied approaches to participatory design and architectural pedagogy: Responsible Architecture is attentive to multiple ecological actors and behaviour change in value-led PD, and science fictioning addresses how narratives of ...

This paper responds to the challenges faced by grassroots sustainability communities in addressing ecological issues, through local action. Now more than ever, designers must fully engage with the messy side of these collaborative practices as we ...

This paper grapples with complicities of decolonising as we attempt to unsettle Dominant conventions in Design, which ossify through repetition, such as reoccurring conferences. Such conventions are troubled through questions around labour, privilege ...

We contribute a conceptual framework for decolonising PD praxis with the aim of surfacing unsettling agendas. Our framework was developed in response to collaborating with young Bedouin activists in Palestine, where there is a need not only to delink ...

We present tangible design non-proposals as a technique for establishing and growing relationships in community-based co-design projects, particularly with Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Prior tangible design products from ...

Participatory Design (PD) seeks political change to support people’s democratic control over processes, solutions, and, in general, matters of concern to them. A particular challenge remains in supporting vulnerable groups to gain power and control when ...

A design protagonist role for children has recently gained attention in political participatory design, with the aim of reframing the position of a child in relation to technology. However, the concept and the characteristics of the design protagonist ...

This paper contributes to recent discussions in the field of Participatory Design (PD) that have considered relationality, becoming, non-human, and more-than-human to invent alternative, more expansive, responsible, and accountable ways of understanding ...

This paper focuses on a participatory activity that is part of an ongoing partnership formed six years ago between teachers and academics to study creative technology approaches to youth participation. By focusing on a food-based activity in an after-...

In this article, we report on methodological reflections that emerged during community-based co-design workshops exploring maternal and child health challenges across four provinces in rural and urban South Africa. Based on these workshops, we present ...

Commons and commoning are of increasing interest to the PD community. We argue that off-the-shelf digital commons can be used in the context of PD to support groups in their commoning practices. This approach presents some advantages: it allows ...

This article is a response to scholars calling for conceptualizing local values of data justice. Such values are grounded in the ways local communities utilize and understand data that has been created for their use. To elicit these values, I organized ...

This paper introduces design for equivalence, an approach to participatory design (PD) that centers systematically excluded individuals and groups and their matters of care, while scaffolding different types of expertise, to address social injustice. ...

This systematic literature review examines the role of prototyping and prototype use in Participatory Design (PD) with older adults. Through text analysis of 68 studies, ten descriptive categories of forms of prototyping and prototype use were ...

Despite the importance of Participatory Design literature concerned with democracy as a process of engaging through what arises from or in response to problems experienced in the situation, we identify the need to design alternative ontologies and ...

Individuals often avoid intercultural interactions due to biases and stereotyped perceptions about others. However, these encounters are needed to promote social inclusion and diversity. Previous PD studies have supported migrants’ social inclusion ...

In this paper, we present a performative exercise aimed at revisiting, from Latin American “Southern” perspectives, two seminal articles in Participatory Design (PD): “Co-creation and the new landscapes of design” by Sanders & Stappers, and “...

In this paper we examine the conceptualization of publics by participatory design scholars and consider how the emphasis on communities as publics supports or hinders the agenda to repoliticize participatory design research. Our paper begins by setting ...

The aim of this study is to contribute knowledge on the implementation of a new multimodal choreography-informed method, Choreopattern, which was developed for participatory educational design. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of Choreopattern ...