Codesigning with communities to support rural water management in Uganda

Ssozi-Mugarura, Fiona; Blake, Edwin; Rivett, Ulrike

doi:10.1080/15710882.2017.1310904

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“…These studies use a range of methods such as interviews, participatory workshops, focus groups, fieldwork, surveys, and participatory action research (e.g. Ssozi-Mugarura et al 2017;Manen et al 2015;Girón et al 2004;Kang 2016;Ambole et al 2016). Frequent application of real time methods in these co-design studies can be attributed to the fact that authors of these studies either facilitate the co-design process or are involved in co-design activities, allowing them to collect data using methods such as observations or workshops.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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“…Likewise, studies in ICTs sector, for example, have explored collaborative design of ICT-based interventions (e.g. Ssozi-Mugarura et al 2017) or developed methodologies to support the design of ICTs for underprivileged communities (Cai et al 2007). In the artisanal-goods sector, collaborative design, in the form of participatory action research, is explored to support handcraft community to improve their design practice (e.g.…”

Section: Design Sectorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The resource-poor people develop a feeling that the design project belongs to them, supporting their project ownership. Acceptance and adoption of products has been shown to improve when they are co-designed with the resource-poor individuals (Champanis and Rivett 2012;Ssozi-Mugarura et al 2017). A recent experimental study in Zambia observed that co-design positively influences concept feasibility as well as likelihood of meeting the user needs (Brubaker et al 2017).…”

Section: Co-designersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some studies cover many phases of the design process by developing an understanding of, or proposing, models of design processes (e.g. Murcott 2007;Nieusma and Riley 2010;Ssozi-Mugarura et al 2017;Girón et al 2004;Jiehui and Kandachar 2008) or by offering guidelines that cover many phases ranging from context understanding, conceptual design to product testing and distribution (e.g. Mattson and Wood 2014).…”

Section: Design Process and Life Cycle Stagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Design and poverty: a review of contexts, roles of poor people, and methods

Jagtap

2018

Res Eng Design

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Design is essential to fulfil unmet or under-served needs of resource-poor societies, supporting their social and human development. A great deal of design research has been undertaken in such low resource settings, and is discussed under different names, such as 'community development engineering', 'humanitarian engineering', 'appropriate technology', 'design for development', 'design at the Base of the Pyramid', etc. This has created an important need to know what has been examined and learnt so far and to plan for further investigation. To address this, we review a broad range of literature, with close examination of 30 design studies in this field. This reveals a multifaceted picture, showing a great diversity in investigation and reporting of attributes of context (income, rural and urban, design sectors, countries, and gender), the roles of poor people (consumers, producers, and co-designers), characteristics of research methods employed (e.g. descriptive and prescriptive, data collection methods, qualitative and quantitative aspects, and unit of analysis), and design topics. Based on the review results, we offer recommendations for further research, identifying concerns that researchers ought to have about this field and suggesting ways in which research in this field can be undertaken and reported. Keywords Poverty • Design process • Design research • Developing countries • Frugal innovations 1 Introduction Forty percent of the world population subsists on less than 2 dollars a day, and twenty percent on less than 1.25 dollars per day, living in extreme poverty (World Bank 2010). Although poverty is decreasing, it is still a widespread and tenacious problem with causes, effects and potential solutions at individual, institutional, and structural levels. Whilst Mahatma Gandhi called the problems faced by these resource-poor people as 'the worst form of violence', Amartya Sen defines them as lack of freedom and inability to make life choices (Sen 2001). Others again define them in terms of high mortality rates, ill-health or as a monetary issue (e.g. Jönsson et al. 2012). These marginalised people generally cannot change their living conditions and livelihood opportunities, as their access to financial and other resources is weak, with pressing need for immediate consumption (Karelis 2007, Jerneck 2014). They often face significant challenges to satisfy basic needs, such as food, shelter, and clothing, and lack access to basic facilities, such as public health (Maxted 2011; Zurovcik et al. 2011), education (e.g. Gordon 1997; Gustavsson 2007), safe drinking water (Baumgartner et al. 2007; Matlack et al. 2011), sanitation (e.g. Chaplin 1999; Burra et al. 2003; Lopes et al. 2012), infrastructure (Prahalad 2004), and security (Jerneck 2014). Design is imperative to satisfy unmet or under-served needs of marginalised people living in resource-limited societies (Papanek and Fuller 1972). Appropriately designed products have the potential to create significant impact, contributing towards social and human developm...

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Design and poverty: a review of contexts, roles of poor people, and methods

Jagtap

2018

Res Eng Design

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“…In more informal community groups, trust between researchers and community members is often described as pro-social behaviour, where researchers engage in community conversations to establish relationships. Such conversations, while often considered outside formal research (Le Dantec and Fox 2015;Ssozi-Mugarura, Blake, and Rivett 2017), are necessary to understanding community networks, including any legacies of distrust that may need to be renegotiated or repaired (Light and Akama 2012). Le Dantec and Fox (2015) for instance recognised how they were positioned as outsiders in their attempts to work with a disenfranchised black African-American community in the US.…”

Section: Trust Through Informal Conversations and Legacies Of Distrustmentioning

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Socio-materiality of trust: co-design with a resource limited community organisation

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Trust is an essential if often implicit aspect of co-design particularly when working in community-based, political and sensitive settings. Current co-design literature, however, remains fairly limited focusing on interactions between people as primary agents of trust. Drawing on research conducted with a poverty alleviation charity based in the UK, we illustrate how trust and distrust can also be mediated through material resources used in the codesign process. The paper highlights the significance of materials in negotiating the interdependencies of trust, in how distrust can be leveraged and trust can be supported through sensitive sociomaterial exchange conducted with resource limited community organisations.

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Design Empowerment: Participatory Design Towards Social Sustainability

Zhang

2022

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Codesigning with communities to support rural water management in Uganda

Cited by 31 publications

References 33 publications

Design and poverty: a review of contexts, roles of poor people, and methods

Design and poverty: a review of contexts, roles of poor people, and methods

Socio-materiality of trust: co-design with a resource limited community organisation

Design Empowerment: Participatory Design Towards Social Sustainability

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