Fiction as a resource in participatory design

Knutz, Eva; Lenskjold, Tau Ulv; Markussen, Thomas

doi:10.21606/drs.2016.476

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“…This process was conducted to align game elements and mechanics as closely as possible to the central dilemmas concerning children and paternal incarceration. As we have dealt thoroughly with the methods used throughout this codesign process in previous publications (Knutz et al., 2019, 2016), our focus in this article is on the empirical data collected through the implementation and evaluation of the game in the part of our study that is singled out as research activities 8, 9, 11, and 12 in Table 1.…”

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Playing games to re-story troubled family narratives in Danish maximum-security prisons

Markussen

Knutz

2020

Punishment & Society

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Narrative criminology has successfully demonstrated how the construction and structure of self-narratives are important for prisoners’ process of change and desistance from crime. However, much of this work has tended to focus narrowly on the offender and how he or she uses self-narrative to relate to the offense, the victim, past childhood, the family, or projected hopes for future change. In an effort to extend prior work, this study takes a complementary approach by analyzing how children and their long-term incarcerated fathers in Danish maximum-security prisons talk about family relations and cohesiveness during imprisonment. To address the gap in research and methodology, we introduce the notion of family narratives, and through microanalyses of in-depth interviews with seven prisoners and seven children, we extract three kinds of family narratives. These narratives were prompted by using a board game recently implemented into the visiting program in Danish prisons to help children and prisoners to re-construct disrupted family relations. Our findings illuminate how the design of a game can be a novel method for collecting data on children and incarcerated fathers and how family narratives can serve as lenses for studying fragile family identity, masculinity, and child–parent relations.

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Playing games to re-story troubled family narratives in Danish maximum-security prisons

Markussen

Knutz

2020

Punishment & Society

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“…• Telling activities are about providing verbal descriptions about future scenarios (Brandt et al, 2012). These can be scenarios about anticipated experiences, or fiction (Knutz et al, 2016) that enhance cross-disciplinary reflection and reframing of socio-economic conditions for design. Telling activities draw boundaries in the thought realm to make futures tractable (Candy, 2018).…”

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The role of participatory design activities in supporting sense-making in the smart city

Matos-Castaño¹,

Geenen²,

Voort³

2020

Proceedings of DRS

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We examine the role of participatory design activities in supporting sensemaking while anticipating technological effects in smart cities. The effects of technology are not univocal. Therefore, creating smart city visions that enclose multiple meanings requires providing environments where stakeholders make the often-implicit processes of meaning attribution to technology explicit. We develop and test three participatory design activities to anticipate value changes and controversies in smart cities, and analyze how these activities supported seven sense-making properties. Our results show that visibilizing, reframing, and imagining are key characteristics of participatory design activities in supporting sense-making. Visibilizing technological impacts 'makes things public,' revealing existing perspectives and fostering new ones. Reframing technological impacts enhances empathy for diverse interests instead of treating smart cities as technical problems. Imagining supports understanding connections between technology and society to anticipate impacts. Our insights contribute to the provision of participatory design activities to articulate multiple meanings around smart cities.

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“…During the process of designing the game, which lasted 1.5 years, several participatory activities and co-design workshops have been organised, including workshops with children, mothers and incarcerated fathers as well as workshops with prison officers and family therapists. These workshops have helped the researchers to shape game characters and to construct a game world that aligns with the actual needs and dilemmas of the families of prisoners (see previous articles focusing on the participatory design process, Knutz et al 2016;.…”

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Understanding Dynamics of Identity Navigation in Social Design

Knutz¹,

Markussen²,

Visch

et al. 2020

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The aim of this paper is to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue between social design and narrative theory in understanding how vulnerable families navigate personal and shared identities. To exemplify this, we draw upon results from a design research project that introduces board games in prisons to help children develop bonds with their incarcerated fathers. In our case study we offer a method of analysis that enable design researchers to delve into the complex field of identity navigation. Further, we offer a focused reflection arguing that the vulnerability of these families can be conceived as family identities being broken or challenged. We attempt to show that identity is constructed through family members' co-authoring of family narratives, which manifest themselves in different formats such as 'master narratives' and 'counter narratives'. Design research has the potential to examine identity formations by applying narrative theory in practice.

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Fiction as a resource in participatory design

Cited by 22 publications

References 8 publications

Playing games to re-story troubled family narratives in Danish maximum-security prisons

Playing games to re-story troubled family narratives in Danish maximum-security prisons

The role of participatory design activities in supporting sense-making in the smart city

Understanding Dynamics of Identity Navigation in Social Design

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