{"title":"A Hauntology of Participatory Speculation","authors":"C. Gatehouse","doi":"10.1145/3385010.3385024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385024","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I conduct a hauntological analysis of participatory speculation, within the context of a study into understanding the potential for increasing recognition of LGBT+ young people's experiences of hate crime and hate incidents. Hauntology provides a means to further situate accounts of speculation in Participatory Design by sensitising us to the interplay of the virtual and the actual that enables us to expand our sense of the possible. Through understanding how participatory speculation is shaped by absent presences, this paper contributes to the discussion of post-solutionist practices in PD that foster care and responsibility across multiple sites and forms of participation in the face of issues that resist resolution. I conclude by considering by translating speculation into shared spaces of wonder, Participatory Design can foster ethical commitments that stay with the trouble.","PeriodicalId":137886,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125150951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Schultz, L. S. García, Laís Affornali Fernandes, Mateus Ribamar Paixão, Fernanda Kawasaki, R. Pereira
{"title":"Cultivating Creative Coexistence(s): towards a critical education for creativity praxis to construct fairer human coexistences","authors":"E. Schultz, L. S. García, Laís Affornali Fernandes, Mateus Ribamar Paixão, Fernanda Kawasaki, R. Pereira","doi":"10.1145/3385010.3385019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385019","url":null,"abstract":"Creative education is a central theme in a world where the division between human and intelligent machines produces new work and social relationships. Many researchers and educators reproduce a controversial discourse where being creative is mandatory to ”succeed” professionally and personally in the Creative Society. Situated in a participatory action research project conducted with socioeconomically vulnerable young people and their social educators in Brazil, we draw on learned lessons from this project to challenge such a discourse by introducing the notion of Creative Coexistence(s). We introduce this notion and discuss four pillars that sustain it and give people a base to promote creativity as a means to produce fairer human coexistence(s). By developing a critical discussion on the literature, and by presenting five scenarios on creative coexistence(s) activities, we elaborate and discuss the four pillars to cultivate creative coexistence(s): 1.Questioning the Creative Society, 2.Freirean-Papertian praxis, 3.Young people as (re)makers, and 4.Coexistence-centered experiences.","PeriodicalId":137886,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121937450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design by means of anthropology towards participation practices: designers and craftswomen making Things in Maranhão (BR)","authors":"R. Noronha, Camila Aboud, Raiama Portela","doi":"10.1145/3385010.3385015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385015","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to present and discuss hierarchical knowledge in participatory situations with two handicraft communities in the Brazilian northeast. Supported by the notion of correspondence [15,17,19], we critically debate power, representation, and the construction of artifacts to enable participatory design processes. We discuss disruption of the paradigms from which our tools and games are made, from a representational practice towards an ontological one, as Ingold also proposes [16]. In this way, we create our design tools and games committed to learning by experience with those skilled practitioners in a participatory approach. Collaborating with craftswomen who work with bobbin lace and looming with buriti palm, we designed things together by means of anthropology to understand their productive chains, theirs limits and to think about future possibilities.","PeriodicalId":137886,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131607745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mette Agger Eriksen, Per-Anders Hillgren, Anna Seravalli
{"title":"Foregrounding Learning in Infrastructuring—to Change Worldviews and Practices in the Public Sector","authors":"Mette Agger Eriksen, Per-Anders Hillgren, Anna Seravalli","doi":"10.1145/3385010.3385013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385013","url":null,"abstract":"Mutual learning and infrastructuring are two core concepts in Participatory Design (PD), but the relation between them has yet to be explored. In this article, we foreground learning in infrastructuring processes aimed at change in the public sector. Star and Ruhleder's (1996) framework for first, second, and third level issues is applied as a fruitful way to stage and analyze learning in such processes. The argument is developed through the insights that arose from a 4-year-long infrastructuring process about future library practices. Framed as Co-Labs the process was organized by researchers and officers from the local regional office. This led to adjusted roles for both PD researchers and civil servants working with materials at the operational and strategic levels. The case shows how learning led to profound changes in the regional public sector in the form of less bureaucratic and more participatory experimental and learning-focused worldviews and practices.","PeriodicalId":137886,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131059752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Un/Making in the Aftermath of Design","authors":"Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl","doi":"10.1145/3385010.3385012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385012","url":null,"abstract":"This paper takes as its starting point the fact that we live in the aftermath of previous making and design. For participatory design to adequately answer to this aftermath, we suggest building on a combination of participatory and speculative design approaches in everyday life settings and exploring the practice of un/making matters. The paper draws on two cases where participants have been invited to engage with recent scientific findings and practices - one where they explore the practice of un/making plastic waste through composting, and one on un/making polluted soil through plants that can accumulate metals. By not primarily aiming at feeding into new iterations of a design process, there is an openness for speculating beyond the given systems, and to bring into question imaginaries of constant progress, which have been part of generating these lingering matters.","PeriodicalId":137886,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130498951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PD otherwise will be pluriversal (or it won't be)","authors":"Pablo Calderón Salazar, Liesbeth Huybrechts","doi":"10.1145/3385010.3385027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385027","url":null,"abstract":"The following text proposes a narrative and argumentative path starting in the wetlands of the Caribbean coastal region of Colombia, where Orlando Fals Borda, more than 50 years ago, found himself in the search for appropriate tools and methods for studying the complex social situation of the communities living there. His development of PAR -a transformative and explicitly political research approach with communities [15]- represented a radical critique and novel proposal for research in the social sciences. Such proposal opens a path for us to explore some examples of knowledge and research (building knowledge) otherwise such as ‘systematisation of experiences’ ‘epistemologies of the south’ [8] and ‘situated knowledges’ [20], as well as some design initiatives, networks and platforms otherwise that have emerged in recent years, such as ‘designs from the souths’ [19], ‘decolonising design’ [36], ‘depatriarchise design’, and ‘autonomous design’ [12]. We then build on these proposals of knowledge and design otherwise, to explain how they have influenced and informed our intervention in a specific case study of northern-European PD, which we will present as a practical example of such ideas. Our journey will end with a plea for contemporary PD to incorporate the political nature of the origins of PAR and the more contemporary concept of ‘pluriverse’ [13], so as to better articulate –not only its investigative- but also its transformative qualities.","PeriodicalId":137886,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131826863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecologies of Contestation in Participatory Design","authors":"Nitin Sawhney","doi":"10.1145/3385010.3385028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3385010.3385028","url":null,"abstract":"How do various forms of contestation and agonism in collective social contexts challenge and transform Participatory Design (PD)? Under what conditions does agonism lead to productive outcomes, expand participation and social inclusion? In this paper, we highlight key insights and issues emerging from three case studies, where design practitioners engaged in PD projects for urban and cultural transformation in New York City and Cambridge. Wide-ranging interviews and participatory workshops reveal how PD is transformed by different “ecologies” inherent in the socio-cultural conditions, power relations, design constraints, and intrinsic values of practitioners grappling with contestation and seeking to engage agonistic pluralism.","PeriodicalId":137886,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125408074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}