This paper engages with issues of universality and locality in the context of community-
based participatory design (PD), and focuses on the challenges and opportunities …

This chapter examines the ways in which the field of Participatory Design engages with the
field of design–as both a topic, a research field and a practice. We highlight what we …

For 25 years the Participatory Design Conference (PDC) has been concerned with the
understanding and development of Participatory Design in theory and practice. The main …

Several authors are pointing to the drift in focus from participation as the means to a political
agenda to participation as a means to a smooth development and implementation, or …

The widespread use of participatory design (PD) has meant that different approaches and
conceptualisations exist in this field today. In this article, it is argued that one fruitful …

Outside of community-led design projects, most participatory design processes initiated by a
company or organisation maintain or even strengthen power imbalances between the …

Design thinking has become a central issue in contemporary design discourse and rhetoric,
and for good reason. With the design thinking practice of world leading design and …

In participatory design, different methods are applied to build individuals' participation and
engagement in design processes. Nonetheless, some less privileged participants can face …

Community-based PD projects are often characterized by the meeting of conflicting values
among stakeholder groups, but in research there is no uncontested account of the relation …

Drawing from our PD projects, this paper shows how designers enact their appreciative
judgment of values by engaging in a dynamic and dialogical process of cultivating the …