14:00 - 15:30
Places, Community, Networks, Collaboration, Design Tools
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.
Panel speakers
Presented papers
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Designer Involved in Communities’ Projects: Her Place and Tools to Support Collaboration
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.
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Expanding the Common Good
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.