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 language | English |
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| Title of host publication | PDC '18 Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference : Full papers - Volume 1 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Place of Publication | New York, US |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Publication date | 20 Aug 2018 |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Article number | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-6371-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 20 Aug 2018 |
| Event | Participatory Design Conference 2018: Participatory Design, Politics and Democracy - Hasselt, Belgium Duration: 20 Aug 2018 → 24 Aug 2018 Conference number: 15 https://pdc2018.org/ |
Conference
| Conference | Participatory Design Conference 2018 |
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| Number | 15 |
| Country/Territory | Belgium |
| City | Hasselt |
| Period | 20/08/2018 → 24/08/2018 |
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| Series | Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference |
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| ISSN | 2150-5896 |
Keywords
- Teaching
- Participatory Design
- Co-design
- University course
- Live projects
- Reflections
- Analysis
- Lessons learnt