Teaching Participatory Design using Live Projects: Critical Reflections and Lessons Learnt

Jörn Christiansson; Erik Grönvall; Signe Louise Yndigegn

doi:10.1145/3210586.3210597

Teaching Participatory Design using Live Projects: Critical Reflections and Lessons Learnt

Jörn Christiansson, Erik Grönvall, Signe Louise Yndigegn

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Abstract

There are few examples of academic work that describe Participatory Design (PD) and Co-design instruction. This paper presents experiences from four years of teaching a university course on Co-design and PD to an average of 57 students per year. A main part of our pedagogical approach is the implementation of Donald Schön’s concept of a reflective practicum, via a mandatory ‘live’ project that runs for the whole semester. We discuss the potential and challenges of teaching PD and Co-design to large classes using live projects, including how to give students first-hand experience of the whole PD process, how to coach students in collecting and using field data, and what expectations of a Co-design process and its participants are realistic. The paper also examines how PD-related challenges affect teaching PD as an academic subject.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	PDC '18 Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference : Full papers - Volume 1
Antal sider	11
Udgivelsessted	New York, US
Forlag	Association for Computing Machinery
Publikationsdato	20 aug. 2018
Sider	1-11
Artikelnummer	8
ISBN (Trykt)	978-1-4503-6371-6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1145/3210586.3210597
Status	Udgivet - 20 aug. 2018
Begivenhed	Participatory Design Conference 2018: Participatory Design, Politics and Democracy - Hasselt, Belgien Varighed: 20 aug. 2018 → 24 aug. 2018 Konferencens nummer: 15 https://pdc2018.org/

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Konference	Participatory Design Conference 2018
Nummer	15
Land/Område	Belgien
By	Hasselt
Periode	20/08/2018 → 24/08/2018
Internetadresse	https://pdc2018.org/

Navn	Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference
ISSN	2150-5896

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Christiansson, Jörn ; Grönvall, Erik ; Yndigegn, Signe Louise. / Teaching Participatory Design using Live Projects: Critical Reflections and Lessons Learnt. PDC '18 Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference : Full papers - Volume 1. New York, US : Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. s. 1-11 (Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference).

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Teaching Participatory Design using Live Projects: Critical Reflections and Lessons Learnt. / Christiansson, Jörn ; Grönvall, Erik ; Yndigegn, Signe Louise.
PDC '18 Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference : Full papers - Volume 1. New York, US: Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. s. 1-11 8 (Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference).

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