Phd festival 2014

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!

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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

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Week 2: Taste & Transparency!

Connecting farming and gastronomy

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Week 3: Why Food Matters?!

Discussions on food politics, biodiversity and taste-driven economy

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Week 4: Food Transformation!

Discussions on local food production & processing

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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

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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]

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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?

Thanks