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 …

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 …

The introduction frames tools and techniques within Participatory Design and describes
Participatory Design as various practices of participation. The following sections give …

It is an interesting time to produce a special issue on participatory design. The seed for this
started as a rejoinder to a previous Design Studies special issue on Participatory Design …

This special issue on participatory design in an era of participation presents emerging topics
and discussions from the thirteenth Participatory Design Conference (PDC), held at Aarhus …

If we are to design the futures we wish to live, then we need those whose futures they will be
to actively participate in their design. This is why it is so important that Participatory Design …

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 …

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 …

Collaborative arrangements between users and designers today are enacted in a
broadening array of circumstances. These include extended, even years-long projects within …

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 …