Highlights•Assessing challenges in participatory design emphasising political dimensions.•
Dimensions of participatory design engagement for sustainable social change.•Impact of …

This paper examines the need for large-scale, sustainable changes, and the effects of
citizens' active participation and design co-operating to realise such changes. Section 1 …

Participatory design has become increasingly engaged in public spheres and everyday life
and is no longer solely concerned with the workplace. This is not only a shift from work …

The emergence of community-based Participatory Design as a distinctive field of
Participatory Design is relatively recent. In this chapter we trace major themes in …

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

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 …

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 …

Participatory Design is about engaging users in the design of new information technology.
Much of the research within Participatory Design has been concerned with developing and …

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