New roles of designers in democratic innovation: a case study in the Ingenuity of Ageing

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2012

Keywords

Design, Ageing, Participation, Democratic innovation, Ideology and utopia

DOI

10.1145/2348144.2348169

Abstract

This paper discusses a study of a group of retired academics that are actively ageing on their university campus in China. We worked with this group of ingenious older people and conducted a series of Creative Dialogues and Design Festivals to see how designers accomplish infrastructuring and mobilization in design participatory innovation for an ageing population. Inspired by the idea of the design process as Things and the concept of community-of-practice, we analysed how they design their lives. We found important new roles for designers in the critique of design ideology and the identification of utopian elements from the participants.

Source Publication

The 12th Participatory Design Conference, 2012 Aug 12-16, Roskilde, Denmark. Proceedings volume 2

ISBN

9781450312967

First Page

77

Last Page

80

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