Design Discourses of Transformation

Prendeville, Sharon; Koria, Mikko

doi:10.1016/j.sheji.2022.01.002

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“…This dominance also has allowed its widespread diffusion and the subsequent exclusion of alternative ways of knowing and doing. The institutionalization of Design is one of the processes that has transformed the discipline into a tool of oppression, altering and impoverishing existing cultures and their legacies (Gutierrez Borrero, 2015;Prendeville & Koria, 2022).…”

Section: Dominant Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unmaking the user journey. Fostering alternative Service Design futures

Maffei,

Del Gaudio

2023

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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This paper bridges the discussion on a more ethical Service Design practice with the one on Dominant Design. It points out the neo-liberalist and late-capitalist roots of Service Design, which are often a barrier to envisioning ways for the discipline to be more inclusive and sustainable. A closer analysis of the user journey, the backbone of Service Design practice, highlights its critical structural issues and how it informs potentially harmful processes and outcomes. The exclusive focus on user and human-centredness prevents service designers from embracing an ecosystem, plural and antihegemonic practice.

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Section: Dominant Designmentioning

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Unmaking the user journey. Fostering alternative Service Design futures

Maffei,

Del Gaudio

2023

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings

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“…Likewise, sense-making is another core design activity where information is interpreted and meaning assigned, individually and collectively (Cross 2001;Allio 2014) in processes mediated by culture, experience, prevailing narratives, and knowledge systems (Prendeville and Koria 2022). In addition, sees design synthesis as an abductive sense-making process of manipulating, organizing, and filtering data to produce information and knowledge.…”

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confidence: 99%

‘Design for policy’ from below: grassroots framing and political negotiation

Vaz

Koria

Prendeville

2022

Policy Design and Practice

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Whilst design politics is an increasingly topical focus in the design field, in practice, design for policy has been normatively presented as a people-centric approach to public policymaking devoid of political or ideological agendas. Up to now, design for policy has exclusively been conceived as embedded within governmental structures, thus adopting a technocratic, internal, and top-down approach to, and understanding of, public policymaking. We argue that most often, this understanding and practice of design for policy establishes and mediates public problems from the standpoint of the government body addressing those problems. In this paper, we take a new and distinct point of departure to design for policy in which design is implicated in the practice of policymaking from below through processes of collective action. Design for Policy from Below moves from an intra-governmental lens to a negotiated exchange between social actors and government. In turn, this informs strategic collective action required to gain political support and leverage efforts to pressure power structures to acknowledge and adopt policy frames and options. To this end, we examine the conflictual power dynamics and negotiation-based approaches to influencing government policymaking processes and model the messy interplay between government-led policymaking and the activities of social innovators aiming at changing policy outcomes. Finally, we synthesize these insights into a conceptual model offering a novel viewpoint on how we can more critically understand the politics at play in design theory and practice engaged with policymaking.

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“…As previously stated, power-knowledge works to establish certain discourse over others, leading to the formulation of dominant bodies of knowledge. Similarly, mainstream design discourse, which includes all design methods, processes, and tools for world-making that have been widely accepted as ways of practicing design, may lead to the erasure of other ways of knowing and designing (Prendeville & Koria, 2022). This process of establishing normative ways of designing, thereby, othering marginalized design practices, results in the formation of dominant design.…”

Section: Dominant Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, mainstream design methods and processes often aspire for universalism (S. Bardzell, 2010;Rosner, 2018). Universalism supports the idea that norms, assumptions, and the knowledge they are based on are generalizable to every situation irrespective of culture or context (Prendeville & Koria, 2022) meaning design knowledge, models, artifacts, methods, or processes may be reproduced and applied to any scenario (Akama et al, 2019). These design practices, therefore, become powerful tools which may transcend culture, time, places, and people (Akama et al, 2019;Akama & Yee, 2016).…”

Section: Universalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As such, a number of attempts have been made to shift narratives and practices of design, embrace new ways of thinking (Escobar, 2018;Prendeville & Koria, 2022;Sanders & Stappers, 2008), and address certain forms of oppression. Particularly, this can be seen in the case of accessible design practices (for example Persson et al, 2015;Smith, 2013) and decolonial design approaches (for example Abdulla et al, 2019;Decolonising Design Group, 2017).…”

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Counteracting Dominant Design Through Intersectional Feminist Thought

Chopra¹

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This thesis examines how dominant and exclusionary design practices operate within systems of power, how these maintain experiences of privilege and oppression, and how these might be challenged through a systematic implementation of intersectional feminist thought in design processes. A three-phased qualitative study was conducted.Phase 1 involves a critical literature review of intersectionality and how forms of dominant design operate, including the Double Diamond model. Phase 2 includes an analysis of three design approaches, Design Justice, Data Feminism and Towards an Intentional Intersectional Practice to assess the implementation of intersectionality in the design process. Phase 3 synthesizes the findings and discusses how intersectional thinking may counteract dominant design. It was discovered that emerging intersectional feminist design approaches contribute to counteracting dominant design. This work is fledgling and further study is required to systematically implement intersectional feminist thought in design processes. This thesis offers insight regarding how to do so.

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Design Discourses of Transformation

Cited by 8 publications

References 45 publications

Unmaking the user journey. Fostering alternative Service Design futures

Unmaking the user journey. Fostering alternative Service Design futures

‘Design for policy’ from below: grassroots framing and political negotiation

Counteracting Dominant Design Through Intersectional Feminist Thought

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