Disentangling participation through time and interaction spaces–the case of IT design for energy demand management

• Giacomo Poderi ^[1] ; Mela Bettega ^[1] ; Andrea Capaccioli ^[1] ; Vincenzo DAndrea ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Trento

     University of Trento

     Trento, Italia

     
• Localización: CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, ISSN 1571-0882, Vol. 14, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 45-59
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Participatory Design has recently seen growing interest in developing critical forms of reflexivity able to disentangle the complexity of participatory ensembles. This article makes a methodological contribution to this endeavour. Drawing on socio-cognitive analyses of collaborative design, it proposes the frame of ‘interaction spaces’ as a scaffolding tool for conducting retrospective analyses of participatory design processes. The paper uses the ‘interaction spaces’ frame to analyse the three years of collaborative activities of the CIVIS Project. Through a longitudinal and multi-dimensional account of participatory dynamics involved in the designing, prototyping and testing of an IT platform for home energy management, the frame evidences how participatory configurations evolve over time; it makes clearer the characteristics of participation as partial and overtaken; and it identifies moments of cross-participation as potential basis for the boundary-spanning of design issues.