Re-place-ing space: the roles of place and space in collaborative systems
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Participatory Design: Principles and Practices
Participatory Design: Principles and Practices
Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems
Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems
Participatory Design: Issues and Concerns
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Contextuality of participation in IS design: a developing country perspective
PDC 04 Proceedings of the eighth conference on Participatory design: Artful integration: interweaving media, materials and practices - Volume 1
Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts
Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts
Out of scandinavia: alternative approaches to software design and system development
Human-Computer Interaction
Being participated: a community approach
Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference
Challenges of participation in large-scale public projects
Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference
The relationship between organizational culture and the deployment of agile methods
Information and Software Technology
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Participatory design (PD) has historically started and traditionally been conducted in Scandinavian contexts, where participation is an integral part of the social value. In this paper, we report our experiences conducting PD approaches in Japan, where social value systems and understandings of participation differ from Scandinavia. The project shows how Japanese utilize PD to solve an extraordinary, disastrous tsunami situation. We exemplify how negative parameters for participation vanish and new social value is created locally and temporary when certain conditions are fulfilled. We argue that culturally distant societies can reasonably adapt PD and use the most of its essence by providing a localized micro-mechanism for consolidating the conditions.