Enabled by ICTs and digital fabrication tools such as 3D printing, and facilitated by shared
workspaces such as makerspaces and FabLabs, digital innovation and fabrication networks …

In recent years, participatory design (PD) has increasingly occurred in the context of various
public, private, governmental, and non-governmental institutions operating in the public …

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 …

Digital Commons have been widely studied in HCI and co-design literature as an alternative
to technologies produced by capitalistic corporations. In this paper, we present an action …

This paper offers the related concepts of'caring'and'commoning', borrowed from feminist
technoscience and feminist political economy, as both values for design and analytical …

Commons and commoning are of increasing interest to the PD community. We argue that off-
the-shelf digital commons can be used in the context of PD to support groups in their …

Shared use of small-scale natural commons is vital to the livelihoods of billions of rural
inhabitants, particularly women, and advocates propose that local telecommunications …

Abstract 3D printing is not only a diverse set of developing technologies, it is also a social
phenomenon operating within the political imaginary. The past half-decade has seen a …

With this paper, we contribute to the ongoing discussion on the transformations of
Participatory Design to address current societal transformations. We focus on how the …

In this statement, I draw upon the need of Participatory Design to engage with new utopias. I
point to contemporary critical theories and to concurrent social conditions that make possible …