Seminar: Democratic (design) experiments

Seminar organized by the CODE research centre and the TEMPOS project:

Participatory design has over more than four decades provided exemplars and concepts for understanding the democratic potential of design participations. Despite important impacts on design methodology participatory design has however been stuck with a marginal position as it has wrestled with what is performed and accomplished in participatory practices.

At this seminar we will discuss how participatory design may be reinvigorated as democratic (design) experiments in the light of the de-centring of human-centeredness and the foregrounding of collaborative representational practices that is paramount in contemporary literature on Science & technology studies

At the seminar Carl DiSalvo, School of Literature, Media and Communication, Atlanta, USA author of among other titles the book, adversarial design and Pelle Ehn,Malmö University, Joachim Halse and Thomas Binder, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of design will present their thoughts on the role of design in democratic (design) experiments based on articles under preparation. 

Morten Krogh Petersen from Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University and Sissel Olander from CODE at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Design will open the discussion by commenting on the positions presented in the two articles.

Everyone is welcome
Everyone is welcome to the seminar and the draft articles may be provided on request to thomas.binder@kadk.dk