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Design as Democracy - Techniques for Collective Creativity (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Design as Democracy - Techniques for Collective Creativity (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the
community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term
stewardship? By bringing community members to the table, we open up
the possibility of exchanging ideas meaningfully and transforming
places powerfully. Collaboration like this is hands-on democracy in
action. It's up close. It's personal. For decades, participatory
design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote
cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same
techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These
approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for
addressing current and future design challenges. Design as
Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity is written to
reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques,
and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six
leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory
design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, Design
as Democracy shows how to design with communities in empowering and
effective ways. The flow of the book's nine chapters reflects the
general progression of community design process, while also
encouraging readers to search for ways that best serve their
distinct needs and the culture and geography of diverse places.
Each chapter presents a series of techniques around a theme, from
approaching the initial stages of a project, to getting to know a
community, to provoking political change through strategic
thinking. Readers may approach the book as they would a cookbook,
with recipes open to improvisation, adaptation, and being created
anew. Design as Democracy offers fresh insights for creating
meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for
transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.
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