Collaborative Speculations on Future Themes for Participatory Design in Germany
Co-Authored-by Linke, Diane; Sörries, Peter and Müller-Birn, Claudia – 2022
Participatory Design means recognizing that those who will be affected by a future technology should have an active say in its creation. Yet, despite continuous interest in involving people as future users and consumers into designing novel and innovative future technology, participatory approaches in technology design remain relatively underdeveloped in the German HCI community. This article brings together the diversity of voices, domains, perspectives, approaches, and methods that collectively shape Participatory Design in Germany. In the following, we (1) outline our understanding of participatory practice and how it is different from mere user involvement; (2) reflect current issues of participatory and fair technology design within the German Participatory Design community; and (3) discuss tensions relevant to the field, that we expect to arise in the future, and which we derived from our 2021 workshop through a speculative method. We contribute an introduction and an overview of current themes and a speculative outlook on future issues of Participatory Design in Germany. It is meant to inform, provoke, inspire and, ultimately, invite participation within the wider Computer Science community.
author = {Henrik Mucha and Ana Correia de Barros and Jesse Josua Benjamin and Christoph Benzmüller and Andreas Bischof and Sandra Buchmüller and Alexandra de Carvalho and Anna-Katharina Dhungel and Claude Draude and Marc-Julian Fleck and Juliane Jarke and Stefanie Klein and Caroline Kortekaas and Albrecht Kurze and Diane Linke and Franzisca Maas and Nicola Marsden and Ricardo Melo and Susanne Michel and Claudia Müller-Birn and Monika Pröbster and Katja Antonia Rießenberger and Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Peter Sörries and Julia Stilke and Torben Volkmann and Anne Weibert and Wilhelm Weinhold and Sara Wolf and Isabel Zorn and Michael Heidt and Arne Berger},
doi = {doi:10.1515/icom-2021-0030},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2021-0030},
title = {Collaborative Speculations on Future Themes for Participatory Design in Germany},
journal = {i-com},
number = {2},
volume = {21},
year = {2022},
pages = {283--298},
lastchecked = {2022-07-29}
}