A Pattern Language for Living Communication: Global Participatory Project. The proceedings of Participatory Design Conference (original) (raw)

This is the first report on an ambitious participatory project, currently in work, whose goal is the construction of a "pattern language, " a large structured collection of knowledge that represents the "wisdom " of a widely distributed, very loosely knit community of activists, researchers, policy-makers, and technologists. This report provides an important first step as it outlines our hopes, expectations, planned tasks, and research hypotheses. A second report in late 2002 or early 2003 will bracket this report with a discussion of actual activities, evaluation, and recommendations.