participatory design

Building Trust for a Sustainable Society

February 7, 2012

All We Need Exhibition

A sustainable society relies directly on our ability to re-generate social participation and spaces to create and sustain trust within our communities. Even if natural systems are good metaphors for designed social systems, they might be misleading.

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A Soul Generated by Love

October 31, 2010

MLK

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to have your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t [...]

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Community Trust and Effective Decision-Making

July 4, 2009

penguin_community

Participatory design becomes real in a sense of community – creating community and building on the social fabric is essential for trust to emerge among stakeholders and towards the whole process. Trust in community and in the process makes effective participatory design. We are talking about social systems, but this understanding also applies to PD [...]

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