TY - GEN
T1 - Reworlding
T2 - Participatory Design Capabilities to Tackle Socio-Environmental Challenges
AU - Huybrechts, Liesbeth
AU - Zuljevic, Mela
AU - Devisch, Oswald
AU - Tassinari, Virginia
AU - Seravalli, Anna
AU - Light, Ann
AU - de Blust, Seppe
AU - Panagiotis, Antoniadis
AU - Bassetti, Chiara
AU - Bidwell, Nicola Jane
AU - Teli, Maurizio
AU - Storni, Cristiano
AU - Avram, Gabriela
AU - Marshall, Mark
AU - Majetic, Filip
AU - Declerck, Joachim
PY - 2022/8/19
Y1 - 2022/8/19
N2 - Rising societal polarisations around health and climate crises have brought more attention to the close relations between social and environmental challenges. These polarisations triggered an interest in the participatory design (PD) field in developing approaches that enhance connections between diverse actors operating across societal and environmental sectors. However, the capabilities needed for these approaches have not been sufficiently articulated in PD research and education. To fill in this gap, we define ‘reworlding’ as an operation of self-critique within PD that engages with capabilities needed to reveal and articulate radical interdependencies between humans and more-than-humans, across social and environmental worlds, and within situated contexts. We propose both the redefinition of the design capabilities needed for (re)connecting these worlds (retracing, reconnecting, reimagining and reinstitutioning), as well as a reconsideration of learning environments where these capabilities can be tested and enhanced.
AB - Rising societal polarisations around health and climate crises have brought more attention to the close relations between social and environmental challenges. These polarisations triggered an interest in the participatory design (PD) field in developing approaches that enhance connections between diverse actors operating across societal and environmental sectors. However, the capabilities needed for these approaches have not been sufficiently articulated in PD research and education. To fill in this gap, we define ‘reworlding’ as an operation of self-critique within PD that engages with capabilities needed to reveal and articulate radical interdependencies between humans and more-than-humans, across social and environmental worlds, and within situated contexts. We propose both the redefinition of the design capabilities needed for (re)connecting these worlds (retracing, reconnecting, reimagining and reinstitutioning), as well as a reconsideration of learning environments where these capabilities can be tested and enhanced.
KW - Capabilities
KW - Participatory design
KW - Politics
KW - Reworlding
KW - Society
KW - Sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137156846&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3537797.3537870
DO - 10.1145/3537797.3537870
M3 - Article in proceeding
VL - 2
SP - 173
EP - 178
BT - Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
ER -