Children and designers have divergent, sometimes contradictory notions of what “design”
means. Unrestricted by the lens of adulthood and the shackles of formal creative education …

Although children's roles in Participatory Design (PD) processes have been more or less
stable for the last two decades, the recent academic debates have urged us to rethink these …

Inviting children to adopt a Protagonist role regarding technology has recently become
advocated. Such a role embraces the original political participatory design (PD) agenda and …

This paper draws on data from an interview study with children engaged in a leisure time
design lab situated in a socioeconomically vulnerable neighborhood. The study accounts for …

Participatory design is inherently concerned with creatively inventing alternative futures.
From this perspective we argue that facilitating meaningful participation is configuring …

In this paper we describe our approach of involving children and young people in processes
of innovation using the concept of" living labs". For this purpose we use construction kits …

Creative ideation is integral to the design process; to be considered creative an idea must
be deemed both novel and appropriate. Design examples are often provided to inspire …

A vast body of literature is dedicated to the roles of designers and participants in
Participatory Design (PD) processes and more specifically to the roles both fulfil in frontstage …

In the last thirty years, there has been an increased interest in supporting children's
participation in society, where the results of these practices may or may not have contributed …

Yarosh and colleagues voice a need to explicitly reveal values that drive our IDC research
studies to avoid'cargo cult science'. As Scandinavian Participatory Design (PD) approach is …