Both articles presented in this conference question the opportunities and difficulties met by designers when they’re creating a community, whether it is a network of professionals or a group of stakeholders. One of the articles presents Design for the Common Good, a network of networks formed in accordance with the principles of design for the common good. Structural and systemic barriers are identified and must be overcome in order to make Design for the Common Good sufficiently inclusive, global and accessible.
The other article develops the place of the designer, in the intersection of a community of purpose and a community of interest. It also presents how the designer triggers and supports collaboration by conceiving a favourable environment, boundary objects and enabling solutions.
Both PhD students in design, the authors are involved in design projects with several communities, to conceive solutions to existing needs collectively. This article reviews their interactions with participants and reflects on the role of the designer in community projects. Authors collect data from their research-fields to document and illustrate their thoughts, thanks to observation and interviews. After the presentation of the fields and methods, this article develops the place of the designer, in the intersection of a community of purpose and a community of interest. It then presents how the designer triggers and supports collaboration by conceiving a favourable environment, boundary objects and enabling solutions. Finally, the authors question the notion of common language and its materiality.
Design for the Common Good is a network of networks formed in accordance with the principles of design for the common good. Also, the design work that the platform disseminates and promotes uses methods, processes and practices that are consistent with design for the common good. Structural and systemic barriers are identified that must be overcome in order to make Design for the Common Good sufficiently inclusive, global and accessible. Global opportunities and threats relating to the environment, economy, technology and social progress contain both the problem and solution. Digital advances have the potential to overcome previously insurmountable economic, environmental, social and technological challenges, both to the creation of the platform and the activities of the actors in its networks. However, this must be balanced by a recognition that collaborative community design stems from potent local group actions and that ethical physical and inter-personal experience is fundamental to these endeavours.
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SUPSI – University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
Department of environment, construction and design
Campus Mendrisio
Via Francesco Catenazzi 23
CH-6850 Mendrisio
HSLU – Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Art and Design
745 Viscosistadt
Nylsuisseplatz 1
CH-6020 Lucerne-Emmenbruecke
Places, Communities and Collaboration
Places, Community, Networks, Collaboration, Design Tools
Alice Martin
Manon Ménard
Lisa M. Abendroth
Jane Anderson
Bryan Bell
Simon Colwill
Peter Fattinger
Ursula Hartig
Jeffrey Hou
Sergio Palleroni
Nina Pawlicki
Colin Priest
Designer Involved in Communities’ Projects: Her Place and Tools to Support Collaboration
Expanding the Common Good
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15:30
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