Five Enunciations of Empowerment in Participatory Design

Sara Marie Ertner; Anne-Mie Kragelund; Lone Malmborg

doi:10.1145/1900441.1900475

Five Enunciations of Empowerment in Participatory Design

Sara Marie Ertner, Anne-Mie Kragelund, Lone Malmborg

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Abstract

Participatory design has been defined as having 'user's democratic participation and empowerment at its core' (Correia and Yusop, 2008). The PD discourse has a strong moral and rhetorical claim by its emphasis on users' empowerment. This paper is a result of a student project, guided by a curiosity about how empowerment is enunciated in the PD field today. In a literature-review of academic papers from the proceedings of PDC 2008 we found that empowerment is enunciated in five different ways which can be translated into 5 categories: 1) Specific user groups 2) Direct democracy 3) The users' position 4) Researchers' practice 5) Reflexive practice. These categories exist conjointly in the literature and suggest that empowerment is not just a moral and politically correct design goal, but a challenged and complex activity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2010 : Participation :: the Challenge
Editors	Keld Bødker, Tone Bratteteig, Daria Loi, Toni Robertson
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2010
Pages	191-194
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0131-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1900441.1900475
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

Participatory Design
User Empowerment
Direct Democracy
Reflexive Practice
Specific User Groups

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Five Enunciations of Empowerment in Participatory Design. / Ertner, Sara Marie; Kragelund, Anne-Mie; Malmborg, Lone.
Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2010: Participation :: the Challenge. ed. / Keld Bødker; Tone Bratteteig; Daria Loi; Toni Robertson. Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. p. 191-194.

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