Relational expertise in participatory design

Authors

  • Christian Dindler
  • Ole Sejer Iversen

Abstract

This paper positions relation expertise as a core competence in participatory design. It is an expertise that demands the participatory designer to stimulate the emergence of loosely coupled knotworks, and obtain symbiotic agreement between participants disregarding their professional and social status. We illustrate our theoretical argument for a relational expertise with a running example from a participatory design process engaging an interprofessional group of participants in a project on future technology enabled learning environments.

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Published

2012-09-01

Issue

Section

SESSION: Sustaining relations in participatory design