A Modernised Participatory Design? A response to Kyng
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In his paper Bridging the gap between politics and techniques: On the next practices of participatory design, Morten Kyng (2010) identifies a number of elements which, taken together, amount to a substantial change in the character and environment of participatory design (PD) from the 1970s to the 2000s. Almost without our noticing, what many of us actually do in the name of PD has deviated from how we still often describe it, and this poses new challenges for carrying out PD that need to be explicitly recognised. The elements Kyng points to, summarised in his table 1, are the ideals of PD, attitudes towards user and producer companies, the role of intellectual property rights, the funding of PD projects, the character and the location of users, the ways in which their interests are safeguarded, typical project outcomes, and lastly the PD techniques that are brought to bear. Kyng’s observations on these matters are insightful, and it is useful to draw them together and consider their overall impact, as he has done. In responding I will discuss five issues: PD in the current political conjuncture; what are the real benefits of PD, and its relationship to other disciplines; the professionalisation of academic research; the conditions under which PD could become a mainstream practice; and (briefly) PD’s move beyond the workplace to fragmented users and distributed settings.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010