This thesis documents a process of rethinking user participation in the design of the urban
built environment. It investigates options for the roles of architects and designers as …

This paper started as a critical assessment of different practices of Design Participation, as
first defined in the 1971 Design Participation Conference in Manchester (UK) organised by …

This paper seeks to redefine 'user participation in design'and to articulate new roles for
designers in order to transform design processes. The term 'Design Participation'was …

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 …

Participatory Design (PD) and the emerging field of Design Anthropology have each
demonstrated the essentiality of the involvement of users in the design process and …

Prologue The arguments presented in this paper centre on attempts to forge architectures
that are appropriate to the new South Africa. These efforts are rooted in our long-held, our …

This paper describes work on user participation in design in both an academic and a real-
world context. The research reported was aimed at identifying major issues in design …

Aside from designing artefacts, designers can also design participations with people. This
paper is a reflection of an eighteen-month design experiment by a design researcher with …

Those who propose the use of design participation in the built environment recognise the
positive contributions that users and communities can make to the quality of decision …

Highlights•People do not only purchase and use products; they design, appropriate and
innovate.•Research on active users in different fields highlight different characteristics.•We …