Structuring future social relations

Light, Ann; Akama, Yoko

doi:10.1145/2661435.2661438

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“…As something we do, this sense extends a vision of care as an ethically and politically charged practice concerned with often invisible and devalued labors, attachments and commitments that keep the world livable. The concept of care has also resonated with some recent conceptualizations of participatory design (see, e.g., Light and Akama, 2014;Pérez-Bustos and Franco-Avellaneda, 2014).…”

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confidence: 85%

Abelhas, drones e outras Coisas no espaço público: fazendo estratégias na cidade

Marttila¹,

Botero²

2016

SDRJ

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In this article we explore some emerging strategizing practices that citizens use for the development of their immediate urban fabric. We make use of our experiences and engagements with two citizen-driven initiatives in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The first case attempts to rethink uses and actors of public space by creating viable conditions for the emergence of urban gardening in public spaces. The second initiative is engaged in a political discussion of the boundaries of participation, cultural appropriation and ownership of city space. We discuss and reflectively analyze some of their strategizing practices, as forms of infrastructuring, commoning and patchworking. The cases shed light on forms of designing that are enacted collectively through mobilizing particular concerns and caring approaches. We conclude by highlighting aspects made visible in the cases that can give a sense of direction for exercising forms of continuous, open-ended design that are attentive to the collective construction of Things. ResumoNeste artigo, exploramos algumas práticas estratégicas emergentes que os cidadãos utilizam para o desenvolvimento do tecido urbano ao seu redor. Usamos nossas experiências e engajamento em duas iniciativas lideradas pelos cidadãos em Helsinki, capital da Finlândia. O primeiro caso é relativo às tentativas de repensar os usos e os atores do espaço público através da criação das condições de viabilidade para o surgimento de jardinagem urbana em espaços públicos. A segunda iniciativa faz parte de uma discussão política dos limites de participação, apropriação cultural e do espaço da cidade. Discutimos e analisamos algumas de suas práticas estratégicas, como formas de infraestrutura, commoning e patchworking. Os casos lançam luz sobre as formas de fazer design que são realizadas coletivamente através da mobilização em torno de preocupações específicas e por meio de abordagens de cuidado. Concluímos destacando aspectos tornados visíveis nos casos que podem indicar um caminho para desenvolver processos de design contínuos, open-ended que focam na construção coletiva das Coisas.

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confidence: 85%

Abelhas, drones e outras Coisas no espaço público: fazendo estratégias na cidade

Marttila¹,

Botero²

2016

SDRJ

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“…Our approach is based on the designer-researcher's engagement with the flow of the design process [15]. This is an approach that resonates with emerging voices in PD that have sought "relational sensitivity" and "ways of noticing" the between-ness-or Ma, as discussed by Akama [21]-beyond sedimented categories and structures [7,15,16,20]. However, in addition to reporting on our engagement then-andthere, we also include our return to the case after the project took place.…”

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“…Over the past years, scholars in varied fields have become increasingly enticed by the "ontological turn" captured in process ontologies [1], and in the posthuman and new materialist theories of becoming, relationality, affect, and nonhuman agency [2]. In design fields, these discussions have connected to the nuanced understandings of socio-materiality and the situatedness of human practice [3][4][5][6], the understandings of design as processual and becoming [7], the expansion from designing technologies only to "infrastructuring" [8,9], and design with and for communities and publics [10,11]. The opening up to nonhuman agency has helped to negotiate the co-constitutive nature of "Things", issues, and matters of concern [12][13][14], and the consequent implications for design practices [8,11].…”

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“…Others have considered these relational and entangled ontologies in order to renegotiate ethics, politics, and values in designing [11,[15][16][17]. Recently, Lindström and Ståhl [18,19] explored ways of inviting "response-able" stakeholders in PD, and Light and Akama [7,20,21] have prompted "human touch" and social relations in PD practice that are not only bound to what is, but also to what is becoming and in-between. There is a willingness to open up to the world in its complex relationality, responsible and accountable for the open-ended and unexpected.…”

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Politics of mattering in the practices of participatory design

Pihkala

Karasti

2018

Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Situated Actions, Workshops and Tutorial - Volume 2

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In this paper, 1 we join those in the field of Participatory Design (PD) that have become inspired by the "ontological turn" as captured in the proliferating discussions around relationality, becoming, and nonhuman agency. The paper offers an account from a PD case where a social media platform was designed with and by professionals for their collaboration around the topic of workplace bullying and harassment. Through this account, this paper reimagines PD in a "posthuman landscape" and explores how this ontological turn forces-and/or enables-a rethinking of ethics and politics in PD. In a timely conference which asks for scrutinizing the ways that the political heritage of democracy, participation, and equality can be enacted in the diverse terrains of PD, our short paper proposes the "politics of mattering" as a way of accounting for the design process as an always-relational becoming and its practices as already-political. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Interaction Design → Participatory design.

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“…He claims Autonomía for the people of Latin America and I recognize it for the people without the upper hand across the neoliberal and profit-obsessed landscapes of Britain. My interest is structuring future relations (Light and Akama, 2014) and using creative practice to promote sustainability during a period when many of our leaders seem constrained by the short-termism of democratic process into refusing to tackle problems that require long-term thinking. In the mess that organized politics is making, taking things into one's own hands is a necessary step if we are to develop (in Escobar's words): "a significant reorientation of design from the functionalist, rationalistic, and industrial traditions from which it emerged, and within which it still functions at ease, towards a type of rationality and set of practices attuned to the relational dimension of life" (2017, p. 42).…”

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