Small projects/large changes: Participatory design as an open participated process

Manzini, Ezio; Rizzo, Francesca

doi:10.1080/15710882.2011.630472

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“…The underlying strategy of the Design Consultant program is comparable to planning by projects (Manzini and Rizzo, 2011) or acupuncture planning (Jégou, 2011) in the sense that a citywide change was fostered through a constellation of small-scale projects. Manzini and Rizzo (2011) articulated the strategy of planning by projects by analyzing exemplary cases -Dott07 (Designs of the Time, UK), Feeding Milan (Italy), Chongming Sustainable Community (China), Amplify (USA), and Malmö Living lab (Sweden) -which have in common that they "aim at sustainable changes on an urban/peri-urban scale" and "have been explicitly or implicitly led by design".…”

Section: Scaling Out: Diffusing Promising Solutions Throughout the Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Manzini and Rizzo (2011) articulated the strategy of planning by projects by analyzing exemplary cases -Dott07 (Designs of the Time, UK), Feeding Milan (Italy), Chongming Sustainable Community (China), Amplify (USA), and Malmö Living lab (Sweden) -which have in common that they "aim at sustainable changes on an urban/peri-urban scale" and "have been explicitly or implicitly led by design". These projects consist of local projects that function as small-scale, short-term experiments, and a framework project that triggers, coordinates and amplifies a number of small-scale local projects "to generate sustainable changes on a larger scale" (Manzini and Rizzo, 2011, p. 210).…”

Section: Scaling Out: Diffusing Promising Solutions Throughout the Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Collaborating with local administrative offices to improve neighborhoods: A case study of the Design Consultant program

Cho

2017

Strategic Design Research Journal

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In 2016, the Seoul Design Foundation, a city-funded design organization in Seoul, carried out a program that aims to solve local problems in the city by catalyzing collaboration between designers and civil servants. The one-year program, called "Design Consultant" program, supported 15 design projects addressing problems at a sub-district level through the collaboration with sub-district offices in Seoul. This paper examines the underlying strategies of the program to address a city's problems, and at the same time to promote the adoption of the design in the public sector. Four projects carried out under the framework of the Design Consultant program were studied by interviewing the civil servants and junior designers who collaborated for five months at local sub-district offices.

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Section: Scaling Out: Diffusing Promising Solutions Throughout the Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Scaling Out: Diffusing Promising Solutions Throughout the Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborating with local administrative offices to improve neighborhoods: A case study of the Design Consultant program

Cho

2017

Strategic Design Research Journal

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“…Ehn calls these hybrid assemblies "Thing: an ancient Anglo-Saxon term indicating 'a collective of humans and non-humans' that takes place in open public spaces rather than within an organization" [10]. On the basis of this new notion, we adopt what Manzini and Rizzo wrote [12] that PD became a highly dynamic process. Therefore, PD can be something that also includes linear co-design processes and consensus building methodologies (i.e., the most traditional view of participatory design), but goes far beyond them, becoming a complex, articulated and often contradictory process where designer's role also includes the role of mediator (among different interests) and facilitator (of other participants' ideas and initiatives), but involves more skills and, most importantly, it includes the designer's specificity in terms of design competence and knowledge.…”

Section: User Centered Design (Ucd) and Participatory Design (Pd)mentioning

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Live Piloting and Prototyping

Rizzo¹,

Cantù²

2013

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† This paper is the result of a collective work, but for the purposes of this publication Daria Cantù has written paragraphs 1, 3.2 and 4; Francesca Rizzo has written paragraphs 2, 3, 3.1 and 5.* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: francesca.rizzo@polimi.it;Tel.: +39-02-2399-5816; Fax: +39-02-2399-7230. Abstract: This paper presents current trends in service design research concerning large scale projects aimed at generating changes at a local scale. The strategy adopted to achieve this, is to co-design solutions including future users in the development process, prototyping and testing system of products and services before their actual implementation. On the basis of experience achieved in the European Project Life 2.0, this paper discusses which methods and competencies are applied in the development of these projects, eliciting the lessons learnt especially from the piloting phase in which the participatory design (PD) approach plays a major role. In the first part, the topic is introduced jointly with the theoretical background where the user center design and participatory design methods are presented; then the Life 2.0 project development is described; finally the experience is discussed from a service design perspective, eliciting guidelines for piloting and prototyping services in a real context of use. The paper concludes reflecting on the designers' role and competencies needed in this process.

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“…However, as design research shows, in the practice of aligning different actors, the strategic dialogue is merely one option in a broad range of democratic dialogues that designers engage in. For instance, Manzini and Rizzo (2011) stress the importance of bottom-up initiatives in Strategic Design processes.…”

Section: Framing Roles and Dialogues In Designing For Work In The Citymentioning

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Diálogos democráticos que fazem funcionar as cidades

Huybrechts

Dreessen

Schepers

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SDRJ

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which permits reproduction, adaptation, and distribution provided the original author and source are credited. AbstractThe field of Strategic Design supports designers in researching and designing for the complexity of today's cities by embracing the idea of strategic dialogue, in which designers align with different actors and their interests. In this article, we discuss how democratic dialogues -foregrounded in the Participatory Design (PD) tradition -play a role in complex urban design processes (i.e. 'infrastructuring') and entail different types of dialogues of which strategic dialogue is merely one. After framing Strategic Design and PD, we describe five designer roles and their associated dialogues. This description forms the basis of an exploratory typology of democratic dialogues that was applied and exemplified in a case study about a Living Lab in the neighbourhood of Genk. The Lab attempts to design alternative futures for work in the city together with citizens, public and private organisations. We claim that engaging with this typology allows designers to understand and design infrastructuring processes in the urban context and to open up different design dialogues and roles for discussion.Keywords: democratic dialogues, living lab, urban context, designer roles, infrastructuring. ResumoO campo do design estratégico apoia o trabalho de designers que pesquisam e projetam para a complexidade das cidades de hoje. De fato, ao abraçar a ideia do diálogo estratégico, os designers se alinham com diferentes atores e seus interesses. Neste artigo, discutimos como diálogos democráticos -que estão em primeiro plano na tradição do Design Participativo (PD) -são relevantes em processos complexos de design urbano (ou seja, de "infraestruturação") e implicam diferentes tipos de diálogos, entre os quais o diálogo estratégico é apenas um. Depois de enquadrar Design Estratégico e PD, descrevemos cinco papéis do designer e seus relativos diálogos. Esta descrição constitui a base de uma tipologia exploratória de diálogos democráticos que foi aplicada e exemplificada em um estudo de caso sobre um Living Lab, no bairro de Genk. O Lab tenta projetar futuros alternativos para o trabalho na cidade, juntamente com os cidadãos, organizações públicas e privadas. Afirmamos que se envolver com esta tipologia permite que os designers entendam e projetem processos de infraestruturação no contexto urbano e se abram para diferentes diálogos de design e papéis para a discussão.Palavras-chave: diálogos democráticos, living lab, contexto urbano, papéis do designer, infraestruturação.

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Small projects/large changes: Participatory design as an open participated process

Cited by 213 publications

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Collaborating with local administrative offices to improve neighborhoods: A case study of the Design Consultant program

Collaborating with local administrative offices to improve neighborhoods: A case study of the Design Consultant program

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Diálogos democráticos que fazem funcionar as cidades

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