Towards response-able PD : putting feminist new materialisms to work in the practices of participatory design |
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Author: | Pihkala, Suvi1; Karasti, Helena2 |
Organizations: |
1Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 2Digital Design Department, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.3 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022090257050 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Association for Computing Machinery,
2022
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Publish Date: | 2022-09-02 |
Description: |
AbstractThis paper contributes to recent discussions in the field of Participatory Design (PD) that have considered relationality, becoming, non-human and more-than-human to invent alternative, more expansive, responsible, and accountable ways of understanding and doing PD. To add to these PD discussions of sociomaterial relationality and emergence, our aim is to bring PD practices into generative dialogue with feminist new materialist praxis. For this, we consider our past and ongoing participatory research and design engagements related to collaboration with union professionals and creative research-activism with children. Drawing methodological insights from the ways in which sociomaterial relationality and becoming informed these processes, we explore how feminist new materialism can inform PD 1) when setting up participatory practices, 2) when engaging during design events, and 3) when re-thinking designer-researchers’ responsibilities and accountabilities as unfolding from multiplicitous, multiscalar engagements. We tentatively propose the notion of response-able PD to bring these insights together. see all
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ISBN Print: | 978-1-4503-9388-1 |
Pages: | 98 - 108 |
DOI: | 10.1145/3536169.3537784 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1145/3536169.3537784 |
Host publication: |
Embracing cosmologies: expanding worlds of participatory design. Proceedings of the 17th participatory design conference, 19th August-1st September 2022, online and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
Host publication editor: |
Vlachokyriakos, Vasilis Yee, Joyce Grönvall, Erik Noronha, Raquel Botero, Andrea Del Gaudio, Chiara Akama, Yoko Clarke, Rachel Vines, John |
Conference: |
Participatory Design Conference |
Type of Publication: |
A4 Article in conference proceedings |
Field of Science: |
113 Computer and information sciences |
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Funding: |
We acknowledge the Openrisk project and its participants as well as the work of FIRE research collective, led by
Tuija Huuki, which have made our contemplations possible. The first author’s work was funded by Academy of
Finland (grant number 322612). |
Academy of Finland Grant Number: |
322612 |
Detailed Information: |
322612 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) |
Copyright information: |
© Copyright held by the owner/author(s) | ACM 2022. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design. Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference, 19th August-1st September 2022, Online and Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, https://doi.org/10.1145/3536169.3537784. |