new article:
participatory design with young people - hands-on designing + making solar powered devices - is more than just the production of Renewable Energy Technologies.
'making energy together' opens up the complexity of sociotechnical energy transitions + the vagueness of 'energy' for school communities.
Seamful infrastructuring through material engagement for energy transitions with youth,
in CoDesign
https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2026.2645084
more in this article in Diseña journal
English
Caring for the Land and _Territorio_ as a Method for Participatory Design
Español
Cuidar la tierra y el territorio como método de diseño participativo
Virve Hyysalo is a Senior Service Designer who works at Pentagon Design. In this interview, we talk about all the co‑design work that went into creating the Oodi Library in Helsinki. She walks us through the methods they used, and how these approaches made it possible to include different marginalized groups in the design process. We move from the big picture to the tiny details—really diving into how this project was shaped with care, attention, and love. This interview is part of the lists: Diseño de servicios, Finnish design in public sector, D&D in English, Finlandia y diseño, Bibliotecas y diseño. Even though some of the lists titles are in Spanish, content can be found also in English. All the list of episodes in English, which has now more than 40 episodes can be found in the D&D in English. She recommends us to read: Design Participation by Sampsa Hyysalo
Heute spreche ich auf der #fiffkon25 zur gemeinsamen Aushandlung von Technik.
#freesoftware #participatorydesign #beteiligung
Tagungsthema: Digitaler Humanismus für eine techno-öko-soziale Transformation der Weltgesellschaft
Folien:
https://md.chaospott.de/p/v81e8U1sH#/
Tagung:
https://gsis.at/meetings/fiffkon25/
I'm going to be talking about care practices in design research and community building.
Happening later today at 4 PM!
#QueerArt #CommunityCare #LGBT #DesignResearch #ParticipatoryDesign #Embroidery
Next week I will be speaking about my queer embroidery research and care practices for community-based participatory design research projects at this awesome event. #ConcordiaUniversity #FiberArts #Embroidery #2SLGBTQ #CollectiveCare https://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/artsci/cissc/2025/11/19/stitching-the-future-weaving-amp-quilting-amp-embroidery-for-collective-survival.html
Can flawed AI-generated images be better for design than accurate ones?
In a new #CSCW2025 paper, @jaguridi et al. explore using image-generative AI as a boundary object in participatory processes to design public spaces.
Their key finding: Imperfect, unexpected images, which they term conversational imperfects, prompted richer and more space-aware conversations with participants than accurate images (fake perfects") did.
#HCI #ParticipatoryDesign #GenerativeAI #AI
📣 published!
Design Participation, by Sampsa Hyysalo
-a multidisciplinary approach to connect research + relevant actors needed for socio-technical change in design,
-expands beyond traditional participatory design to engage affected peoples in transformative matters over time + space,
-is anchored in real-life cases + builds on research in private, public, academic, + third sector settings
-free and open access!
There are online tickets available to the Royal School of Needlework conference where I will be speaking on Day 2 (22 August) on my paper, 'The Threads that Bind Us: Lessons on Care & Resistance in a Queer Embroidery Circle.'
#Embroidery #FiberArts #Design #DesignResearch #ParticipatoryDesign #LGBT
https://royal-needlework.org.uk/events-exhibitions/stitched-together-2025/
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