Resumen de Agonistic participatory design: working with marginalised social movements
Erling Bjarki Björgvinsson, Pelle Ehh, Per-Anders Hillgren
Participatory design (PD) has become increasingly engaged in public spheres and everyday life and is no longer solely concerned with the workplace. This is not only a shift from work-oriented productive activities to leisure and pleasurable engagements, but also a new milieu for production and �innovation�. What �democratic innovation� entails is often currently defined by management and innovation research, which claims that innovation has been democratised through easy access to production tools and lead-users as the new experts driving innovation. We sketch an alternative �innovation� practice more in line with the original visions of PD based on our experience of running Malmö Living Labs� an open innovation milieu where new constellations, issues and ideas evolve from bottom�up long-term collaborations among diverse stakeholders. Three cases and controversial matters of concern are discussed. The fruitfulness of the concepts �agonistic public spaces� (as opposed to consensual decision-making), �thinging� and �infrastructuring� (as opposed to projects) are explored in relation to democracy, innovation and other future-making practices
