InterMedia Design Seminar Participation and Design

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InterMedia Design SeminarParticipation and Design

• Judith Gregory
• Systemarbeid, Institutt for Informatikk
• http//www.ifi.uio.no/judithg/
• 13 September 2002

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Participation and Design

• Participatory Design Conference 2002,
• 23-25 June, Malmö
• Inquiries into the politics, contexts
  practices of collaborative design work
• As point of departure for discussion of broad
  themes of participation design
• As a turning point for biennial PDCs since 1990
• First time PDC is held in Scandinavia
• Contributions from diverse design fields

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Participation and Design

• Changing ground change and challenges
• Historical changes since early PD projects
• Changes in new media, e.g web design
• Changes in contexts, e.g. local-global even
  greater challenges inter-organizational networks
• Changes in who where? New consistencies, e.g.
  Teenagers public sphere
• Who do we regard as designers? Designer-users?
• Are we all becoming designers?

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Participation and Design

• (Like a teenager)
• Participatory design has grown up and left
  home

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Participation and Design

• What do these changes mean for longstanding and
  new concerns?
• user participation
• democratization of society
• social inclusion

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Participation and Design

• First PDC in Scandinavia
• Participatory Design Conference returns home
• Broad base ongoing experimentation
• Changes in US context
• Many new people old timers
• Fresh start a turning point

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Participation and Design

• Outreach for PDC 2002
• Invited people from diverse design fields
• Architecture
• Urban planning
• Engineering
• Interactive design
• Fine arts artworks interactive demonstrations
• Networks for collaborative design e.g. 3
  schools
• Networks of potential common interests
  PhD-Design STS international

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Participation and Design

• ECSCW Workshop on Participatory Designa
  precursor for organizing PDC 2002
• Proposed schema for PDC 2002
• Brainstorming themes and challenges for
  participatory design
• Participatory discussions with as many people as
  possible!
• Programme committee for outreach

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ECSCW Workshop on Participatory Design

• Proposal for a graphical frame for PDC 2002
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• Global Societal
• Participatory Inquiry -- Collaborative Design
  -- What is designed?
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• Global Professional cultures

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ECSCW Workshop on Participatory DesignThemes
from Brainstorming

• Global/Local
• Difference cultures, gender, professional,
  disciplinary
• Different knowledges
• Concurrent cultural traditions
• New influences including internationalisation
• Problems of scale and difference
• Conflicts of interests
• Mediating between participatory groups with
  conflicting interests
• Local/global conflicts
• Global and local meanings
• Local-global levels of influence

• Global/Local (cont.)
• How do we make PD a social environment?
• How can we involve other groups from other social
  backgrounds?
• PD and doing gender have the preconditions
  changed?
• (How) are we dealing with ideologies of exclusion
  and ascription of roles?
• Participatory design of global infrastructures?
• Reciprocal bridges between centres and
  peripheres

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ECSCW Workshop on Participatory DesignThemes
from Brainstorming

• Scale
• Attracting representative community members
• Problems of scale and representation who is
  represented and why? Who decides?
• Change of scale group community
• Cultural approaches to PD one size fits all?

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ECSCW Workshop on Participatory DesignThemes
from Brainstorming

• What is design?
• What should be designed? (Design for
  participation)
• What can be designed? Distinguishing artefact and
  context
• Do people have clear interests that can be
  translated, into a design?
• Understanding the nature of design processes
• Design or emergence
• Content authoring vs. design
• Seeding prototypes with content, then
  redesigning from that

• Learning from creative fields
• Mechanisms for PDC market, organizational forms
• The economics of PD methods costs, benefits

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ECSCW Workshop on Participatory DesignThemes
from Brainstorming

• Collaborative design New Contexts
• Changing roles designers lt-gt users lt-gt consumers
  lt-gt designers
• Rethinking design, designers, designer-users,
  participation in design
• Motivating users to become participatory
  designers
• New spectrums of interests (challenge)
• Groups who want to set up their own
  infrastructure (challenge and solutions)
• Online participation in design where face-to-face
  involvement is not feasible
• Web design virtual teamwork over the net
• Voluntary communities
• Does web technology include more or less groups
  into design processes?
• Who is included / excluded?
• Web Engineering difficult roles? Users? Tasks
• Synchronous distributed PD is a challenge
  developing tools, methods, research is required

• New media, new constituencies (e.g. teenagers)
• Local and global circulating genres
  lifestyles
• Users have to experience work contexts How?
• PD and usability definition?
• Learn from failure systems
• PD engineering requirements should be raised in
  discussions
• Re-defined roles in community PD
• Co-operation between people and organizations
• Collaborative teamwork
• Creating real world work settings in prototypes
• Strategies alliances social movements,
  artists, other design communities
• Participatory community development and
  sustainability
• Is PD only for computer scientists and engineers?
  
• What about participatory practices in the Art
  Scene?

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ECSCW Workshop on Participatory DesignThemes
from Brainstorming

• Spreading Participatory Design
• Can we bring together the interest in
  collaborative design and the interest in
  participatory inquiry within the PD scene?
• Enlarging the groups of people participating
• Coming out of a niche tools for propagating PD
• How to attract new generations of researchers and
  practitioners to the PD community (beyond
  Systems)?
• What does the PD community share with architects,
  industrial designers or artists?

• Materials for PD beginners, e.g. extending the PD
  bibliography with methods and case studies
• Contesting design
• PD and longer-term effects of complex
  technologies

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ECSCW Workshop on Participatory DesignThemes
from Brainstorming

• Rethinking Democracy
• Has the political dimension of design been
  acknowledged?
• Participation or (and) representative democracy
• Getting representative participation defining
  it and doing it or rejecting it
• The relation(s) between a democratic process and
  a democratic result
• The concept democracy
• Democratic design is that ever possible?

• Mutual respect allows differences in competencies
• Process ? result?
• Democracy needs structure

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ECSCW Workshop on Participatory DesignThemes
from Brainstorming

• Participatory Inquiry/Representations/ Methods,
  Tools
• Separation between work home
• Articulating needs that relate to mundane
  everyday life
• Design with volunteer participation
• Involving prospective users who dont need to get
  involved
• Future RE with the users
• Theorizing PD and its link to ethnomethodology
• Can the ethnographic imagination be made
  participatory?

• How can the approaches of silent/silenced groups
  be articulated?
• How to create preconditions for PD?
• How to create alternative contexts for design
  and design for contexts?
• Relations in design
• Old new methods, tools, techniques of PD
• A notation for PD is required to represent users
  contributions possibility?

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Participation and Design

• A few highlights talks, sessions
• Contextualizing Power in a Collaborative
  Design, Sampsa Hyysalo Janne Lehenkari, FI
• Participatory Design and the Collective
  Designer, Pelle Ehn Richard Badham
• Designing for an Ecological Agricultural
  Association, Edla Faust Ramos et al., Brazil
• Adult Education Works-in-Progress from Wales,
  Brazil Australia

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Participation and Design

• Contextualizing Power in a Collaborative
  Design, Sammpsa Hyysalo Janne Lehenkari, FI

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Participation and Design

• Participatory Design and the Collective
  Designer, Pelle Ehn Richard Badham, Malmö
  School of Art Communication

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Participation and Design

• Designing for an Ecological Agricultural
  Association, Edla Faust Ramos et al., Brazil

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Participation and Design

• Adult Education Works-in-Progress
• from Wales, Brazil Australia
• Designing-by-doing in Adult Education
• Projeto Crisilada
• Increasing the Participation of Indigenous
  Australians in IT

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Participation and Design

• A few highlights methods, tools, analysis
• Designing for universe(s) of one
• E-prototyping on the web
• Narratives story-telling
• Designing for children
• Physicality / Phenomenology
• Performativity
• Centering Diversity / reflective practice
• Analysis of representations, rhetoric, discourse

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Participation and Design

• A few points of critique
• Backbone slipped computer science, systems
  development
• Need for more critical debate of new trends, e.g.
  XP, pattern languages, personas
• Architecture and the arts not an easy match,
  e.g. Of highly constrained participation
• International participation possible but
  requires time to be planned for

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Participation and Design

• PDC 2004 in Toronto
• Andrew Clement, Conference Chair,
  clement_at_fis.utoronto.ca