Meta-design: design for designers

  • Authors:
  • Gerhard Fischer;Eric Scharff

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (Llt/supgt/3lt//supgt/D), Department of Computer Science and Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (Llt/supgt/3lt//supgt/D), Department of Computer Science and Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

  • Venue:
  • DIS '00 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

One fundamental challenge for the design of the interactive systems of the future is to invent and design environments and cultures in which humans can express themselves and engage in personally meaningful activities. Unfortunately, a large number of new media are designed from a perspective of viewing and treating humans primarily as consumers. The possibility for humans to be and act as designers (in cases in which they desire to do so) should be accessible not only to a small group of high-tech scribes, but rather to all interested individuals and groups. Meta-design characterizes activities, processes, and objectives to create new media and environments that allow users to act as designers and be creative.In this paper we discuss problems addressed by our research on meta-design, provide a conceptual framework for meta-design, and illustrate our developments in the context of a particular system, the Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory.