Designing the Social. With communities of practice Aditya Pawar
Programme
Prototyping practices Co-design Participatory design
Social Innovation Situated practice Design futuring
Design Engagements Probing Communities/ publics Service design
‘Making things public’
Field prototyping
Design fiction
Serious play
Design games
Re-cap: Transformative design Transformative economy > Transformative design
Colin Burns , Hilary Co/am , Chris Vanstone Jennie Winhall, RED PAPER 02, Transforma@on Design
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Design engagements: Umea Skafferi/ Pantry
Participatory festival on food production
Green Communities! • • • • •
Link: http://umea2014.se/en/event/ume-skafferi/
Ecological vegetable farming Ecological sheep farming Permaculture farming Farming for self-sufficiency Urban farming
Trust building: Being a part of an urban-farming community
Study circle
Planning and getting permissions
Knowledge sharing
Cultivating food
Public participation
Neighbourhood activities around the gardening activities
Umea Skafferi/ Pantry
A 5 week public performance Week 1: Farming Landscape! Understanding the farming landscape from different perspectives
! Week 2: Taste & Transparency! Connecting farming and gastronomy
! Week 3: Why Food Matters?! Discussions on food politics, biodiversity and taste-driven economy
! Week 4: Food Transformation! Discussions on local food production & processing
! Week 5: Pantry Manifesto, Ume책 2014! Imagining food futures in Umea
Making the food chain transparent Good taste and sustainability Bio-diversity
Counter de-futuring
Design engagements: Umea Skafferi
Creating an open platform Food culture Food production, consumption, processing
Ethno-biology
Gastronomy Food activism
Human geography
Seed biology
• The Skafferi acts as a boundary spanning infrastructure [Bowker & Star, 2000]
for collective knowledge and perhaps collective action in future.
! • The dialectic performance(s) enacted here slows down the rate of de-futuring
[Fry,2009] redirecting us towards far more sustainable modes of co-habitation
Design of communal endeavours Designing for ad-hoc groups
Designing for collective action Common practices Loosely tied group
A collective
Communal endeavours A community of practice Designing for community
Shared practices
A team Designing for team work
• Communal endeavours embrace issues shared by different types of collective
arrangements [Botero, 2013]! • A community of practice (CoP) engages people in mutual sense-making – about the enterprise they’re engaged in, about their respective forms of participation in the enterprise, about their orientation to other communities of practice and to the world around them more generally [Wenger, McDermott and Snyder, 2002].
Community based participatory design Topics shaping development of community based participatory design [Carl DiSalvo, 2013]:
New forms of politics
Publics
Infrastructuring
• Revealing hidden
• Articulation of issues & their
• Provisioning platforms for
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politics Supporting activism, civic disobedience Supporting agnostic democracy Politicising public rhetoric Supporting/improving political mechanisms
Food politics
mutually constructed publics • Publics as used to frame & understand the multiplicity perspectives around a topic
From a community of interest to a community of practice
coordinating, facilitating & expressing multiple voices, planning & constructively handle dispute • Boundary spanning infrastructures
Infrastructuring agonistic sites
Design engagements: Sliperiet Making-of an open-collaborative hub
Organisation! Organisational change
Users/Communities! Social change
Transformation design principles • Active citizens • Intervention at community •
Management! Incubatees! Technicians! Volunteers!
Core processes! Culture! Mission! Paradigm!
Students! Researchers! Companies! Entrepreneurs
• • • •
scale Building capacities and partnerships Redistribute power Enhance imagination & hope Build infrastructures & enabling platforms Evaluating success & impact
Transformative service & transformative design [Junginger & Sangiorgi, 2009]
Organisational transformation emerged as a specific area of research to better understand the drivers, processes and content of planned, second-order change, defined as transformational change [Junginger & Sangiorgi, 2009]
Design engagements: Sliperiet Building the scene Serious play to reflect on motivations & barriers to collaboration. ! And understand the position of the Sliperiet as boundary spanning infrastructure.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=WiVfdTTnTIU&list=UUnBesv6tp2vsmTHEAj1A5eg
Future work: Open - collaborative space
Communities of practice [Wenger, McDermott and Snyder, 2002]
CoP Open access movements Open source Open standards Governing the commons [Ostrom, 1990] - Common pool resources - Knowledge commons - Material commons
OPENCOLLABORATIVE
Institutional infrastructures
How to infrastructure [Star & Bowker, 2002]
Infrastructuring [Pipek & Wulf, 2009]
Open innovation P2P co-production
STS - Social worlds framework [Clarke & Star, 2008]
! Cultural co-production and learning
Reflections on practice Design with communities of practice (CoP)
How can we scale up HCD? to take on complexities of designing for communities & networks
CoP
CoP constellations
Reflections on practice Design process
Reflections on practice Situated practice How can we make transparent the black-box of big society?
Reflections on practice Limits of the design practice
What are the limits of design for social innovation?
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