Designing exploratory design games: a framework for participation in Participatory Design?

@inproceedings{Brandt2006DesigningED,
  title={Designing exploratory design games: a framework for participation in Participatory Design?},
  author={Eva Brandt},
  booktitle={PDC '06},
  year={2006}
}
  • Eva Brandt
  • Published in PDC '06 1 August 2006
  • Engineering, Computer Science
The dogma of Participatory Design is the direct involvement of people in the shaping of future artefacts. Thus central for designers within this field are the staging of a design process involving participation of people. Organising collaboration between people having various competencies and interests is challenging and therefore designers need frameworks, which can accommodate this work. This paper discusses the use of exploratory design games to organise participation in participatory design… 
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