Giving voice to equitable collaboration in participatory design

TY - ADVS

T1 - Giving voice to equitable collaboration in participatory design

AU - Ivey, Marlene

AU - Sanders, Elizabeth B.-N.

AU - Li, Yue

AU - Kirk, Elizabeth

AU - Ricketts, Ian

AU - Stevenson, Lorna

AU - O'Connor, Mark

N1 - This publication resulted from the Co-experience research which began in June 2005 and progressed through to a research exposition (7-16 December 2005) - Ivey M (2005) Experimenting with the Co-experience Environment. Dundee: Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts (see www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk) and www.creativekit.co.uk, a website launched in June 2006 to disseminate the research project process and outcomes. In collaboration with Professor Tom Inns the research outcomes from the Co-experience Environment were mapped alongside the outcomes of Prof Inns' AHRC funded research 'Designing the 21st century: Interdisciplinary Discussion and Synthesis in a Shared Environment'. The collaboration resulted in an exhibition titled 'Theatres for Thinking'. Ivey, M & Inns, T. ‘Theatres for Thinking in Design Research Society, WonderGround, International Conference 2006, Friedman, Love & Corte-Real (Eds) CEIADE: Lisbon, Portugal (ISBN 972 98701 6 0). The Co-experience experiment resulted in further outcomes. Ivey, M et al (2007) 'Equitable' Collaboration in Participatory Design Research’ was published in the proceedings of the European Academy of Design 11-13 April 2007, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. This paper, written in collaboration with Dr Sanders and the Co-experience participants, offers recommendations that might influence approaches to engaging participants in design research and experimentation. dc.description.sponsorship: Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) dc.isbasedon: Inns, T., ed. (2007) Designing the 21st century: interdisciplinary questions and insights. Aldershot: Gower. Wonderground: Design Research Society International Conference 2006, Lisbon, 1st - 4th November 2006 Research exposition - Experimenting with the Co-experience Environment, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, 7th - 16th December 2005

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - An AHRC funded research project titled Experimenting with the Co-experience Environment (June 2005 – June 2006) culminated in a physical environment designed in resonance with a small group of participants. The participants emerged from different disciplines coming together as a group to share their expertise and contribute their knowledge to design. They engaged in storytelling, individual and co-thinking, creating and co-creating, sharing ideas that did not require justification, proposed designs even though most were not designers …and played. The research questioned how a physical environment designed specifically for co-experiencing might contribute to new knowledge in design? Through play and by working in action together the participants demonstrated the potential of a physical co-experience environment to function as a scaffold for inter-disciplinary design thinking,saying, doing and making (Ivey & Sanders 2006). Ultimately the research questioned how this outcome might influence our approach to engaging participants in design research and experimentation?

AB - An AHRC funded research project titled Experimenting with the Co-experience Environment (June 2005 – June 2006) culminated in a physical environment designed in resonance with a small group of participants. The participants emerged from different disciplines coming together as a group to share their expertise and contribute their knowledge to design. They engaged in storytelling, individual and co-thinking, creating and co-creating, sharing ideas that did not require justification, proposed designs even though most were not designers …and played. The research questioned how a physical environment designed specifically for co-experiencing might contribute to new knowledge in design? Through play and by working in action together the participants demonstrated the potential of a physical co-experience environment to function as a scaffold for inter-disciplinary design thinking,saying, doing and making (Ivey & Sanders 2006). Ultimately the research questioned how this outcome might influence our approach to engaging participants in design research and experimentation?

KW - Design

KW - Design research

M3 - Digital or Visual Products

PB - Izmir University of Economics

ER -