Guest presenter:
Olav W. Bertelsen, Associate Professor, PhD
Aarhus University, Department of Computer Science.

“Reflections on Participatory Design in New Contexts”

Abstract:
Participatory design has taken as its point of view that designers and users should engage in an equal language game. It has been the ambition that by making certain conditions for the design activities, equality in design was possible. Whether or not this ideal has ever been achieved is a big question, but when we take PD to operate in contexts where some of the involved users are weak, ill, or have disabilities, we are clearly confronted with a situation where this assumed equality is no longer an ideal that can be reached. The talk will discuss issues arising when doing PD in such contexts.