Participation in design things

  • Authors:
  • Pelle Ehn

  • Affiliations:
  • Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper discusses the design of things. This is done in an attempt to conceptually explore some of the political and practical challenges to participatory design today. Which things, and which participants? The perspective is strategic and conceptual. Two approaches are in focus, participatory design (designing for use before use) and meta-design (designing for design after design). With this framing the challenge for professional design to participate in public controversial things is considered.