The Scandinavian approach and the Participatory Design community has come a long way in terms of raising attention to include future users in the design and development of new technologies and in relation to making PD approaches applicable in real life projects. Based upon a case study of a in many ways successful project in the Danish healthcare sector we discuss issues in relation to particip...

There are many recommendations for environmental management practices to adopt more holistic or systems-based approaches and to strengthen stakeholder participation. However, management practices do not always match or achieve these ideals. We explore why theory may not be reflected by practice by exploring experiences of projects seeking to implement the ecosystem approach, a concept that enta...

This article proposes a pragmatist theorising of different repertoires valuation as an analytical grid to understand how actors participatory projects assess the value citizen expert participation. It conducts justification analysis on interview data from 21 that engage citizens lay experts in Finland illustrate this approach helps explain contradicting meanings assigned concept well resulting ...

This article focuses on the unlikely success of Peru’s top-down participatory budget experience. As part of democratization and decentralization efforts in the early 2000s, Peruvians mandated participatory budgeting in all subnational governments. The article suggests that, while success is constrained in many ways, Peruvians can point to two important accomplishments: 1) engaging a significant...

Can buzzwords be methodically exploited to develop more self-reflective and participatory research methods and practices within the ICT area? Research policies as well as research funding agencies rely heavily on buzzwords, yet tend to grow uncomfortable when these are deliberately highlighted and concatenated in research applications. This paper presents a multi-disciplinary R&D project in whi...

the purpose of this study was to analysis to influencing factors on the reducing inputs in participatory technology development (ptd) project of watershed honam in lorestan province. the research projects ptd, is one of the resilience livelihood projects from global challenge program for water and food (cp) to carry out central challenge link two categories is water operation and resilience liv...