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(2014) Disentangling participation, Dordrecht, Springer.
Much of the PD literature today explores and provides guidance on how to enrol (prospective) users as co-designers: how to find users and user representatives, how to organize the design process, how to develop a common ground and mutually learn from each other, how to develop ideas and evaluate them as a multidisciplinary team, etc. The most difficult part, however, is the sharing of power inherent in the PD approach: in order to collaborate with users as co-designers the designers need to share their power with them and acknowledge their different and equally valuable expertise. This book explores exactly this challenge for practitioners of PD by asking what participation really means: who should participate and in which parts of a design process; what does it mean to share power with users; how are decisions to be made in a participatory way?
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06163-4_1
Full citation:
Bratteteig, T. , Wagner, I. (2014). Introduction, in Disentangling participation, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-12.
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