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 …

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 …

While many participatory design (PD) projects succeed in establishing new organisational
initiatives or creating technology that is attuned to the people affected, the issue of how such …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to identify the kinds of ethical issues practitioners have to consider in
participatory design (PD) practice and use these to inform a set of ethical principles, which …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we illustrate through a set of examples how our own conceptualisation of
participatory design (PD) and associated tools and techniques transforms within the design …