Discursive conditions of knowledge production within cooperative design
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
Silence' as an analytical category for PD
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
Resources for action in the negotiation of participatory design projects
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
Participatory tensions in developing a community learning network
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
Homestead creator: a tool for indigenous designers
Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
Exploration of facilitation, materials and group composition in participatory design sessions
Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
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Participatory design has been defined as having 'user's democratic participation and empowerment at its core' (Correia and Yusop, 2008). The PD discourse has a strong moral and rhetorical claim by its emphasis on users' empowerment. This paper is a result of a student project, guided by a curiosity about how empowerment is enunciated in the PD field today. In a literature-review of academic papers from the proceedings of PDC 2008 we found that empowerment is enunciated in five different ways which can be translated into 5 categories: 1) Specific user groups 2) Direct democracy 3) The users' position 4) Researchers' practice 5) Reflexive practice. These categories exist conjointly in the literature and suggest that empowerment is not just a moral and politically correct design goal, but a challenged and complex activity.