Design through collective action / collective action through design

Dantec, Christopher A. Le

doi:10.1145/3018005

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Historically, Nygaard's engagement with the Norwegian Iron and Metal Workers Union (NJMF) highlighted a set of methods and practices for supporting workers' power through their local knowledge in negotiating and making decisions on issues concerning "new technologies" [38,39,80]. While PD expanded beyond supporting changes at the workplace to home and broader community-based transformations, the examination of power enacted in its various forms remains central [11,16,34,47,57,61,80].…”

Section: Power Within Structures Of Dependencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Empowering Participation Within Structures of Dependency

Gautam

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2022

Participatory Design Conference 2022: Volume 1

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Participatory Design (PD) seeks political change to support people's democratic control over processes, solutions, and, in general, matters of concern to them. A particular challenge remains in supporting vulnerable groups to gain power and control when they are dependent on organizations and external structures. We reflect on our five-year engagement with survivors of sex trafficking in Nepal and an anti-trafficking organization that supports the survivors. Arguing that the prevalence of deficit perspective in the setting promotes dependency and robs the survivors' agency, we sought to bring change by exploring possibilities based on the survivors' existing assets. Three configurations illuminate how our design decisions and collective exploration operate to empower participation while attending to the substantial power implicitly and explicitly manifest in existing structures. We highlight the challenges we faced, uncovering actions that PD practitioners can take, including an emphasis on collaborative entanglements, attending to contingent factors, and encouraging provisional collectives. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Participatory design; HCI theory, concepts and models; Empirical studies in HCI; Field studies; • Social and professional topics → Cultural characteristics.

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Section: Power Within Structures Of Dependencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Empowering Participation Within Structures of Dependency

Gautam

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2022

Participatory Design Conference 2022: Volume 1

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“…publics [9] or a prefigurative politic may become useful here to form "effective alliances" [1] and draw on the resources offered by public or private actors; to subvert and act in opposition to the status quo. The goal of this workshop is to build on these discussions designed to make civic initiatives last, as well as to provide a forum for people to share experiences, challenges, and lessons learnt in order to consider steps forward for sustainable engagement of collectives.…”

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confidence: 99%