What to do when you've been made an offer you can't refuse: what participatory design and FLOSS (free/libre and/or open source software) have to teach each other about the corporate embrace

Abstract

In the early days (e.g., the 1970s), proponents of Scandinavian approaches to systems development, and the Participatory Design methods so central to their work, often put political and social change objectives at the core of their advocacy. In more recent years, for profit corporations have become strong proponents of PD. Advocacy rhetoric for PD has changed as PDers increasingly work with, in, and for corporations. But what about the practice of PD---has it changed, too?

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