Participatory design process to solve social issues in local community: a use case

Abstract

This paper describes an enhanced participatory process created to support a regional vitalization project run by residents of a local community in Japan. The experiences and lessons learned during this project are shared. Since the local residents were unaccustomed to participatory design, it was a challenge to motivate them to contribute to the project as project members for extracting local information from them, creating and refining ideas with them, and putting the ideas into practice with them. In order to tackle above challenges, we also proposed and utilized some new participatory design methods in this case study.

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