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Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 - Volume 2

Sanna Marttilan esitys Finna-päivässä 22.10.2013 Helsingiss

This paper presents an online tool that offers designers, artists and all creative people, the po... more This paper presents an online tool that offers designers, artists and all creative people, the possibility of exploring and accessing Europeana in a funny, playful and intuitive way. By using the webcam to take a photo of any object or texture, users can invoke the Culture Cam tool for accessing a set of images that are similar in color, shape or pattern. It is used to stimulate the inspiration of creative designers by diving into common cultural heritage and providing access to beautiful content available to be used as source for new derivative designs and art artefacts. The collection of items used by Culture Cam are accessible under public domain licence.

The Korean Society For Power System Engineering, Feb 1, 2014

Aalto University, 2013

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Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Diseño y Comunicación

Transition Design or design for sustainability transitions is acknowledged as an emerging design ... more Transition Design or design for sustainability transitions is acknowledged as an emerging design research and practice area. Although studied and practiced as part of research consortiums for a while, design for transitions has only recently started to be adopted by design practitioners and consultancies with only few examples worldwide.

LAYER 2: Collective issues: The what and when of infrastructuring 21 ▪ Seeds and seeding: Interve... more LAYER 2: Collective issues: The what and when of infrastructuring 21 ▪ Seeds and seeding: Interventions and making the strange familiar (Group 1) 22 ▪ Data, gateways, global/local, and a research agenda (Group 2) 24 ▪ Reconfiguring, learning, (counter)narrating, knotworking, struggling (Group 3) 26 ▪ Agreements, learning, scales of intervention and power (Group 4) 30 LAYER 3:(Re)problematizing politics, participation and infrastructuring 33 ▪ Making agendas explicit, and can there be PD without ethics? (Group 1) 35 ▪ Learning to reveal and not to obscure (Group 2) 38 ▪ Why? Take a stand! (Group 3) 40 ▪ Frames for action (Group 4) 42 LAYER 4: Uncharted territories: Some research paths 45 ▪ Political agendas, reflexivity and ethics (Group 1) 47 ▪ Data and design, invisible work and alternative dissemination strategies (Group 2) 50 ▪ Long term studies, framing, activism and PD look into infrastructuring (Group 3) 52 ▪ Changes in design, creative and critical thinking (Group 4) 54 INTRODUCTION: A workshop on Infrastructuring in PD 6 A WORKSHOP ON INFRASTRUCTURING IN PD This e-zine documents the discussions and group work done at the 'Infrastructuring in Participatory Design' workshop, a full-day event that took place at the Participatory Design Conference 2018 in Hasselt and Genk, Belgium¹. The workshop invited the Participatory Design (PD) community to come together, with their cases or projects, questions and topics of interest in order to take stock of empirical insights and conceptual developments around the notions of infrastructure and infrastructuring, and their relevance to the revitalization of the political agenda of PD. Following a hands-on approach, participants-collectively and critically-mapped issues, disentangled assumptions, identified blind spots, and outlined new research opportunities charting the possibilities and limitations of an infrastructuring approach in Participatory Design at large. Participants at the workshop came from a broad range of domains (e.g. Design, Science and Technology Studies, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Information Sciences, Architecture), representing interests in infrastructuring from multiple perspectives. Prior to the workshop, participants were asked to 1) write a position statement and read everyone else's position statements, 2) look at their own work in relation to the theme of the workshop to pick one artifact to bring to the workshop, 3) contribute to a collective compilation of research literature dealing with infrastructures and infrastructuring. With these activities, we together prepared issues, ideas, and concerns to work with in the workshop.

This paper examines the role of digital storytelling in the context of small-scale local activiti... more This paper examines the role of digital storytelling in the context of small-scale local activities. We introduce the theoretical concept of ‘everyday self-organising social movements’ (ESSM), which refers to small-scale, citizen-led programs that aim at improving their neighbourhoods and cities. In theorising ESSM, we identify the tension between bottom-up and top-down actions aimed at fortifying the community, and discuss how this tension can be transcended through the concept of self-organisation. Our multidisciplinary research framework combines ideas from the fields of digital communication, media studies, urban planning and collaborative design. From the perspective of digital storytelling, we demonstrate how digital social media plays the role of a catalyst in the organisation of social movements and in the construction of identities. To make our case, we present six examples: three from Helsinki, Finland, and three from Tokyo, Japan. Finally, we discuss the conditions that c...

Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference on Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts - PDC '14 - volume 2, 2014

Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2017

In this paper we reflect on our involvement in the design and development of two information syst... more In this paper we reflect on our involvement in the design and development of two information systems: Fusion and EUscreen. Both are infrastructural initiatives aimed at contributing, from different angles, to wider public access to and appropriation of the European digital cultural heritage. Our analysis is founded on the notions of an installed base and gateway in information infrastructure development. We situate our co-design activities and infrastructuring strategies in relation to a broader interest in advocating not only the preservation of and access to digital cultural heritage, but, more importantly, enabling collaboration, to support the emerging practices of diverse user groups, and to contribute to cultural commons.

Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 2, 2020

This workshop explores the relevance of the notion of commons as an objective, and commoning as a... more This workshop explores the relevance of the notion of commons as an objective, and commoning as a way of doing and being for design. We invite the PD community to reflect on ways in which these concepts help us critically protect and support sustainable futures for communities of humans and non-humans. How can participatory design remain open to multiple ways of sharing and different worldviews? What would it mean for the participatory design community in terms of challenging established notions such as participation, facilitation, empowerment, to name but a few? How can participatory design contribute further to theoretical elaboration and activist practices?