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How are we able to design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table, we open up the potential for exchanging ideas meaningfully and transforming places powerfully. Collaboration like this is hands-on democracy in action. It’s up close. It’s personal. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely at the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a variety of contexts.
Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the globe, Design as Democracy shows how you can design with communities in empowering and effective ways. The float of the book’s nine chapters reflects the general progression of community design process, even as also encouraging readers to seek for ways that best serve their distinct needs and the culture and geography of diverse places. Every chapter presents a series of techniques around a theme, from approaching the initial stages of a project, to getting to know a community, to provoking political change through strategic thinking. Readers may approach the book as they would a cookbook, with recipes open to improvisation, adaptation, and being created anew.
Design as Democracy offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.
Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the globe, Design as Democracy shows how you can design with communities in empowering and effective ways. The float of the book’s nine chapters reflects the general progression of community design process, even as also encouraging readers to seek for ways that best serve their distinct needs and the culture and geography of diverse places. Every chapter presents a series of techniques around a theme, from approaching the initial stages of a project, to getting to know a community, to provoking political change through strategic thinking. Readers may approach the book as they would a cookbook, with recipes open to improvisation, adaptation, and being created anew.
Design as Democracy offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.
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