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

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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.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPDC '18 Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference : Full papers - Volume 1
    Number of pages11
    Place of PublicationNew York, US
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
    Publication date20 Aug 2018
    Pages1-11
    Article number8
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-6371-6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 20 Aug 2018
    EventParticipatory Design Conference 2018: Participatory Design, Politics and Democracy - Hasselt, Belgium
    Duration: 20 Aug 201824 Aug 2018
    Conference number: 15
    https://pdc2018.org/

    Conference

    ConferenceParticipatory Design Conference 2018
    Number15
    Country/TerritoryBelgium
    CityHasselt
    Period20/08/201824/08/2018
    Internet address
    SeriesProceedings of the Participatory Design Conference
    ISSN2150-5896

    Keywords

    • Teaching
    • Participatory Design
    • Co-design
    • University course
    • Live projects
    • Reflections
    • Analysis
    • Lessons learnt

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