Five Enunciations of Empowerment in Participatory Design
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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.Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Five Enunciations of Empowerment in Participatory Design
AU - Ertner, Sara Marie
AU - Kragelund, Anne-Mie
AU - Malmborg, Lone
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1145/1900441.1900475
DO - 10.1145/1900441.1900475
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-1-4503-0131-2
SP - 191
EP - 194
BT - Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2010
A2 - Bødker, Keld
A2 - Bratteteig, Tone
A2 - Loi, Daria
A2 - Robertson, Toni
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
ER -
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