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Participatory design and sustainability: a literature review of PDC proceedings

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Giacomo Poderi,

Yvonne DittrichAuthors Info & Claims

PDC '18: Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Situated Actions, Workshops and Tutorial - Volume 2

Article No.: 2, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3210604.3210624

Published: 20 August 2018 Publication History

Abstract

This exploratory paper examines the relationship between Participatory Design (PD) and Sustainability as it emerges from the Participatory Design Conference (PDC). The reinvigorated political agenda of PD, together with the enlargements of its application domains and scopes of interest, calls for reinvigorating the early concerns of the field for long-term, durable, and positive change. The objective of this paper is to explore what "sustainability" means in and for the field. The study is based on a literature review of the PDC Proceedings and it provides both an outline of the structural aspects of the literature and a mapping of three use patterns of the concept: PD for Sustainability; Sustainability of PD Practice; and Sustainability of PD Results. Based on our interpretation of these patterns we also provide a general definition of sustainability. We believe the findings of this paper can support PD scholars in conceptualizing sustainability and to position their works in relation to it.

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Participatory design and sustainability: a literature review of PDC proceedings
1. Human-centered computing
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PDC '18: Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Situated Actions, Workshops and Tutorial - Volume 2

August 2018

230 pages

ISBN:9781450355742

DOI:10.1145/3210604

Editors:
Liesbeth Huybrechts
Hasselt University, Belgium
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Maurizio Teli
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
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Ann Light
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
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Yanki Lee
Enable Foundation, Hong Kong China/Linnaeus University, Sweden
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Carl Di Salvo
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
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Erik Grönvall
IT Univeristy of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Anne Marie Kanstrup
Aalborg University, Denmark
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Keld Bødker
Roskilde Uniuversity, Denmark

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