{"title":"Local adequacy as a design strategy in place-based making","authors":"Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk, S. Hyysalo, A. Raeva","doi":"10.1080/15710882.2021.2006720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2021.2006720","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines continuing appropriation of products and materials through the term ‘local adequacy’ and provides an alternative perspective on grassroots strategies of exercising control over technology by (re)connecting with the place of its making and using. To observe and document these strategies, we examine areas with challenging natural and infrastructural conditions, where local inhabitants collectively undertake creative action for building a comfortable living environment. Three cases in remote areas of Russia show that local adequacy is formed though identities reflected in both practical and symbolic value of products, competences that allow products to be used, maintained, and upgraded; and materials through which makers are included in a broader economic and technological context.","PeriodicalId":46990,"journal":{"name":"CoDesign-International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts","volume":"96 1","pages":"115 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76150898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining co-design on Country as a relational and transformational practice","authors":"Nicola St John, Y. Akama","doi":"10.1080/15710882.2021.2001536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2021.2001536","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Undertaking participatory work with Indigenous people requires a reflexive and critical reimagining of how non-Indigenous design researchers engage with place. This paper draws upon reflexive learnings from a co-design education programme with young adults from Ntaria, Western Arrarnta Country in the Central Desert of Australia. Co-designing with Ntaria youth involved deeper questioning of the dynamics of participation, catalysing a change of pace and a shift from engaging as a Design Researcher and Educator to a person open to different ways of relating. This embodied transformation required leaning into uncertainty and discomfort as a new practice of waiting and becoming relational, attuned to the temporal rhythms of people and ‘Country’. While the stories are highly personal and contextually specific, the paper aims to inspire others to reflect and question alternative ways of being a design researcher. By shifting away from de-personalised accounts of research that emphasises roles, skills, processes, and methodologies, this paper reimagines co-design as co-ontological ways of becoming, which troubles research traditions of replicability and generalisability. For co-design to be reimagined this way, we argue the significance of onto-epistemes that are beyond dominant research orthodoxies to respect and embrace pluriversal ways of participating, learning, and teaching design.","PeriodicalId":46990,"journal":{"name":"CoDesign-International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts","volume":"55 1","pages":"16 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81899083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liesbeth Huybrechts, O. Devisch, Virginia Tassinari
{"title":"Beyond polarisation: reimagining communities through the imperfect act of ontologising","authors":"Liesbeth Huybrechts, O. Devisch, Virginia Tassinari","doi":"10.1080/15710882.2021.2001537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2021.2001537","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In participatory design (PD) processes driven by institutions, designers struggle in reaching out to silent and/or silenced human and more-than-human voices within local communities. This can in a long run contribute to polarisation in the design process. This paper explores how to reimagine designing with communities beyond polarisation, by rethinking the PD practice of ‘infrastructuring’ (i.e. ‘commoning’ and ‘institutioning’) from within the perspective of the ontological turn. This process of ‘ontologising’ infrastructuring aims to enable designers to design with and for radical interdependence and reach out to (ontologically) diverse actors who might in first instance seem unrelated if not antagonistic. We situate and evaluate this process in a concrete case study in urban planning in the Low Countries where we used mappings and platforms to map and engage with radical interdependencies. Rather than crystallising ‘ontologising’ as a PD practice, in this paper we aim to foreground it as a set of capabilities that designers may use to steer and evaluate their PD process with close attention to its politics.","PeriodicalId":46990,"journal":{"name":"CoDesign-International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts","volume":"175 1","pages":"63 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76991847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Project-based communities: lessons learned from collaborative city-making experiences","authors":"D. Fassi, E. Manzini","doi":"10.1080/15710882.2021.2001535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2021.2001535","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that if we want to discuss the contemporary community, we may look at them as being formed by a set of projects that continue to contribute to its ongoing existence in order to remain active. To offer a concrete example of this argument, the article is based on the work done by the authors over several years in the field of Design for Social Innovation, on a research line entitled ‘Design for Collaborative Cities’, forming part of the international network Desis Network and the Polimi Desis Lab. In order to observe the relationship between communities and projects more closely, a particular context is referenced, which can be generalised in terms of similar urban contexts. This is a case of urban regeneration, which also leads to the regeneration of the community that lives there and has realised the power of change not only through associations rooted in the territory but also through informal ‘social street’ groups, a typical Italian phenomenon for getting to know one’s neighbours. The case study refers to a transformation that has occurred in the last few years in Nolo, a semi-peripheral neighbourhood of Milan, Italy.","PeriodicalId":46990,"journal":{"name":"CoDesign-International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts","volume":"43 1","pages":"4 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77187852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collective wondering: enabling productive uncertainty in agroecological codesign","authors":"M. Wernli","doi":"10.1080/15710882.2021.2001534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2021.2001534","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the transformative relations of unknowable possibility in three urban communities which upcycle human waste. Working with communities – human and nonhuman – is approached by applying the dynamic model of collective wondering conceived as (i) provisional proposition, (ii) responsiveness to difference, and (iii) affirmation in/of uncertainty. The communities act in concert with people, microbes, and earthworms to address unsustainable food systems. Their profoundly self-implicating engagement on the material, social and cultural level stems from a pendulation between actionable immersion (wondering at) and perspectival detachment (wondering about). Community – understood as togetherness in wondering – becomes a conduit for imaginative, counter-intuitive thinking, and doing that can diversify existent, dominant, and hegemonic perspectives. Three agroecological cases illustrate how cultivating a rich, interactive context for exchanging or moving positions give birth to a plurality of perspectives, human and nonhuman, on the world. Since physical, social, and cultural positions in people and groups are never fully determined, codesign that provides ample possibility for repositioning – including unsettling bathroom routines, group debates, compost care, and agroecological tinkering – is crucial for opening perspectives and influencing how people act in close relation with unknowable otherness.","PeriodicalId":46990,"journal":{"name":"CoDesign-International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts","volume":"75 1","pages":"95 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76054676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policy Puzzle Game: making policy ideas feasible and acceptable in policy co-design","authors":"Chorong Kim, K. Nam","doi":"10.1080/15710882.2021.1995440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2021.1995440","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Policy participation requires a democratic decision-making process, though typical co-design approaches focus more on immersing participants in the design process and facilitating creative thinking. This research proposes a new concept of policy co-design workshops to ensure both policy and co-design values. The feasibility and acceptability of policy ideas were found to be key requirements in policy co-design. The requirements were designed to be fulfilled through a gamified policy co-design workshop – Policy Puzzle Game – with a jigsaw puzzle-style toolkit and process. The game was used in real policy development by a municipal government with participating citizens, activists, civil servant s, and design thinking facilitators. The major findings from post-workshop interviews include insights on the engagement process of the game, the unique roles of different stakeholder groups, and their contributions to making policy ideas feasible and acceptable. Based on the findings, possibilities for further application of the game and the significance of the research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46990,"journal":{"name":"CoDesign-International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts","volume":"171 1","pages":"448 - 465"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85016729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plant Hotels: designing the imaginary foundations of communities","authors":"Yiying Wu, I. Koskinen","doi":"10.1080/15710882.2021.1991958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2021.1991958","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Communities can be a significant source of well-being. Design literature has recently paid attention to social design and social innovation and has advanced our understanding of designing for communities in many ways. One thing that has been left to the sidelines has been those imageries that shape communities. They are usually seen but unnoticed, but important in their consequences. This paper builds on Garfinkel’s ethnomethodology to explicate some of these imageries through a series of four Plant Hotels in Helsinki and one in Stockholm. Inspired by relational art they were meant to explore community-formation with minimal rules. They were treated as breaching experiments that led us to classify the imageries into four main orientations. The paper discusses how these imageries create a web of assumptions that create and maintain communities and make them robust, and how they can be turned into design material that helps us to reimagine communities.","PeriodicalId":46990,"journal":{"name":"CoDesign-International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts","volume":"131 1","pages":"32 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72965152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a radically inclusive design – indigenous story-telling as codesign methodology","authors":"Manuhuia Barcham","doi":"10.1080/15710882.2021.1982989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2021.1982989","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Indigenous design methodologies provide a way to address the ‘always situated-ness’ of the designer, and so too those with whom we work. Looking at story-telling as a specific indigenous design methodology, this article helps show how these methodological approaches can help us to create a space of mutuality that can open up new ways of being in the world. This new awareness, attenuated through the use of these forms of indigenous methodologies, can then in turn open up new ways of codesigning the worlds in which we live. Focusing on an example of an indigenous story-telling codesign process with a First Nations group in Prairies Canada the article explores how a sensitivity to design methodologies is an important aspect of both preventing design from collapsing into neo-colonialism and helping bring into being worlds that are respectful and welcoming of difference and interconnectedness – a radically inclusive design.","PeriodicalId":46990,"journal":{"name":"CoDesign-International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts","volume":"74 1","pages":"1 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77377853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dissonance and diplomacy: coordination of conflicting values in urban co-design","authors":"Stefan Molnar, Karl Palmås","doi":"10.1080/15710882.2021.1968441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2021.1968441","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion on values in co-design processes, by introducing concepts from the emerging field of valuation studies. Using the work of David Stark and Ignacio Farías as an entry point to this perspective, it shows how co-design can be understood as a collective process of finding negotiated settlements among conflicting accounts of value, through practices of coordination. This idea is illustrated by a case in which co-design is mobilised as a tool for developing and governing ‘active frontages’ in a regenerating district in Gothenburg, Sweden. The article shows how the valuation studies perspective relates to, and in part differs from, other approaches to collaborative and participatory design. While sharing some of the intuitions of both agonism- and actor-network theory-informed approaches, its front-staging of practices and principles of valuation does nevertheless provide an alternative perspective on co-design. The valuation approach depicts co-design processes as a negotiation-based search for settlements, which suspends rather than solves value conflicts. Thus, co-design may be construed as a form of diplomacy, which operates within certain political limits of designerly peacemaking.","PeriodicalId":46990,"journal":{"name":"CoDesign-International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts","volume":"18 1","pages":"416 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82094474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The imagination and public participation: a Deweyan perspective on the potential of design innovation and participatory design in policy-making","authors":"Brian Dixon, Lynn-Sayers McHattie, C. Broadley","doi":"10.1080/15710882.2021.1979588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2021.1979588","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Democratic practices remain an ongoing concern in Participatory Design (PD), with an increasing focus being directed towards citizens’ roles in formal decision-making processes. Linking to such concerns, this article explores the potential of John Dewey’s democratic vision as a political frame for PD. As a means of pursuing this, we reference an ongoing Design Innovation research programme, which has, over the last decade, investigated the potential of PD methods in community contexts in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Alongside the programme, we also explore an emerging public participation agenda in Scottish policy-making. Noting some challenges in relation to the agenda’s implementation, we propose that design can play a role in helping to realise the potential which it affords. To illustrate this, we present an exemplar case drawn from our research programme and, in doing so, demonstrate how Dewey’s vision allows us to both rationalise past action and prospect future activity in relation to policy-making concerns. To conclude, we outline what we see to be the key value of adopting the Deweyan democratic vision as a political frame within PD in general.","PeriodicalId":46990,"journal":{"name":"CoDesign-International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts","volume":"30 1","pages":"151 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84349455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}