Political-pedagogical contributions to participatory design from Paulo Freire

Serpa, Bibiana; Portela, Imaíra; Costard, Mariana; Batista, Sâmia

doi:10.1145/3384772.3385149

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“…The familiar form of PD workshops and associated material interactions have been critiqued for not supporting social responsiveness [51] particularly in relation to situated intersectionalities associated with marginalised experiences of oppression and distrust which calls for decolonisation [36,78,88]. Designers have reinvigorated Freire's emancipatory pedagogy to re-politicise design action to research, code and transform awareness of the realities of oppression [74] that align with fluid experimental processes such as the creation of publics for articulating issues of concern. Furthermore, building on Freire, long-term approaches such as assets-based community design (ABCD) has been reported to support communities and designers to collectively appreciate expertise as assets to be mobilised while supporting lasting change [95].…”

Section: Decolonising Pd Praxis and International Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This not only includes what we do in design, but how concepts such as decolonising are perceived by others experiencing oppression for its perceived lack of practical applicability in their lives. Prior work on decolonising highlights the political pedagogical work of transforming awareness of oppression into design action aligning with a more fluid experimental process [74]. But it is also important to highlight a commitment to such practices can also be experienced as too open and unclear and irrelevant while at the same time needing to be responsive to the day to day realities and constraints on communities.…”

Section: Reflection On Decolonising Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…PD, alongside other cognate disciplines, is increasingly engaging with issues of decoloniality as praxis, where critical thinking and doing are conjoined in political forms of community action and inquiry [12,26,31,74]. This growing body of work has predominantly focused on key contributions across methodological and theoretical inquiry [1,47,63,65,72,79]; designing equitably with under-served and marginalised communities [6,17,18,19,36,83,84], invigorating debates in the design curriculum influenced by perspectives from authors and practitioners from the global South [9,11,50], while highlighting the necessity of citational justice in design reporting [48].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Decolonising in, by and through participatory design with political activists in Palestine

Clarke

Talhouk

Beshtawi

et al. 2022

Participatory Design Conference 2022: Volume 1

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We contribute a conceptual framework for decolonising PD praxis with the aim of surfacing unsettling agendas. Our framework was developed in response to collaborating with young Bedouin activists in Palestine, where there is a need not only to delink approaches from potential damaging epistemological and ontological ways of knowing and being, but to recognise differently constituted positionalities, the geopolitical specificities of place and the role of INGOs alongside the cultural contexts of ongoing violence. We define our orientations as decolonising in, by and through PD praxis when working on issues of landbased conflict. We argue these multiplicitous orientations allow for negotiations between political struggle and indigenous connection to the land, how INGOs embody conflicting justice agendas and how equity enriches yet complicates community sustainment. In contexts of ongoing indigenous land-based conflict, we detail the framework as an approach for unsettling PD praxis. CCS CONCEPTS• Social and professional topics ~User characteristics ~Geographic characteristics

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Section: Decolonising Pd Praxis and International Developmentmentioning

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Section: Reflection On Decolonising Inmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Decolonising in, by and through participatory design with political activists in Palestine

Clarke

Talhouk

Beshtawi

et al. 2022

Participatory Design Conference 2022: Volume 1

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“…When it comes to improving social and political reflections in PD and its relation to democratic processes, the work of the Brazilian philosopher Paulo Freire becomes particularly relevant [13,14]. Especially, it has inspired many scholars and practitioners in the Global South developing new theories and concepts for design delinked from the Western practice, proposing situated and hybrid approaches in order to "deal with social issues that are not typically associated with the profession, such as human rights, ethics, politics, ideology, and oppression" [9, p. 17].…”

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Towards a Power-Balanced Participatory Design Process

Giannini

Mulder

2022

Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 - Volume 2

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Participatory designers have taken inspiration from other practices like the social sciences to develop socially just and horizontal processes to collaborate with communities. In the current work, we take the premise that designers do not have enough means to address concepts of power and politics in design practice. Therefore, we elaborate upon how designers could develop horizontal relationships within participatory design practices. Informed by the legacy of Paulo Freire, a research-through-design study exploring new ways of engaging and interacting with the community has been conducted. The study setup allowed for reflection upon the changing role of the designer in a community context. We conclude with a series of propositions and discuss their contribution to power-balanced relationships in participatory design processes.

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“…This could trigger col-lective manoeuvre room for new thoughts, design, and new practices to emerge. Freire's work lies at the basis of many recent reflections on the role of dialogues in shaping the politics of participatory design and planning processes (Salazar, Zuljevic, & Huybrechts, 2018;Serpa, Portele, Costard, & Silva, 2020). In previous research, we aimed to enrich the knowledge of the particular qualities of these dialogues in a participatory urban planning context.…”

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Dialectical Design Dialogues: Negotiating Ethics in Participatory Planning by Building a Critical Design Atlas

Roosen

Huybrechts

Devisch

et al. 2020

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This article explores ‘dialectical design dialogues’ as an approach to engage with ethics in everyday urban planning contexts. It starts from Paulo Freire’s pedagogical view (1970/2017), in which dialogues imply the establishment of a horizontal relation between professionals and amateurs, in order to understand, question and imagine things in everyday reality, in this case, urban transformations, applied to participatory planning and enriched through David Harvey’s (2000, 2009) dialectical approach. A dialectical approach to design dialogues acknowledges and renegotiates contrasts and convergences of ethical concerns specific to the reality of concrete daily life, rather than artificially presenting daily life as made of consensus or homogeneity. The article analyses an atlas as a tool to facilitate dialectical design dialogues in a case study of a low-density residential neighbourhood in the city of Genk, Belgium. It sees the production of the atlas as a collective endeavour during which planners, authorities and citizens reflect on possible futures starting from a confrontation of competing uses and perspectives of neighbourhood spaces. The article contributes to the state-of-the-art in participatory urban planning in two ways: (1) by reframing the theoretical discussion on ethics by arguing that not only the verbal discourses around designerly atlas techniques but also the techniques themselves can support urban planners in dealing more consciously with ethics (accountability, morality and authorship) throughout urban planning processes, (2) by offering a concrete practice-based example of producing an atlas that supports the participatory articulation and negotiation of dialectical inquiry of ethics through dialogues in a ‘real-time’ urban planning process.

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Political-pedagogical contributions to participatory design from Paulo Freire

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

Decolonising in, by and through participatory design with political activists in Palestine

Decolonising in, by and through participatory design with political activists in Palestine

Towards a Power-Balanced Participatory Design Process

Dialectical Design Dialogues: Negotiating Ethics in Participatory Planning by Building a Critical Design Atlas

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