Participation in design things
Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008
Participatory design and "democratizing innovation"
Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference
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This paper discusses a study of a group of retired academics that are actively ageing on their university campus in China. We worked with this group of ingenious older people and conducted a series of Creative Dialogues and Design Festivals to see how designers accomplish infrastructuring and mobilization in design participatory innovation for an ageing population. Inspired by the idea of the design process as Things and the concept of community-of-practice, we analysed how they design their lives. We found important new roles for designers in the critique of design ideology and the identification of utopian elements from the participants.