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design thinking in the city –thing or agora?

Pelle Ehn, School of Arts ad Communication, Malmö University, Sweden

Active participation by workersCollaborative prototypingSkill based technologyDemocracy at work

Participatory Design

… two decades ago in Italy …

what is design thinking? who? when? where?

big picture

collaborative design

prototyping

Haur du sitt Malmö haur du sitt vardencitizens from170 contries

The commission for a socially sustainable malmö

Thriving mulitcultural citySustanable architecture and eco‐systemsImproved living conditionsBlooming creative class

but polarization is increasing

”close the gap”: ”social investment policy”more democratic forms of innovation and governance through citizen participation

conditions for design thinging in the city

public sphere: from one public sphere to multiple plebeian publics (“issues sparking publics into being”)democracy: from consensus (hegemony) to agonism participation: from “representation” to “articulation”governance: from top of the pyramid to heterogeneous bottom up networks

design thinging - from “things” (objects)to “Things” (assemblies)

things as governing assemblies and places”thingings” as events in the life of heterogenious communitiesthings as ”collectives of humans and non‐humans”

reassembling the object of design 

design thinging directions?

• Public space: from public to production to commons?• Change: from technological innovation to multiple futures?

• Economy: From haunting “marginal costs” to engaging “marginal resources”?

• Innovation: from “new” to “well composed” (“slow”), and from “market‐driven” to “commons‐based”?

• Actors: from “designers” to “participatory citizenship”?• Thing: from “projects” to “infrastructuring”?

design thinging and making futures: challenges in the city of malmö

• social innovation: citizen/city collaboration?

• opening production: citizens as producers? 

• emerging publics: new forms of thinging?

social innovation: the citizen/city collaboration?

innovating public spaces?

designing collaborative services?

thinging governance networks?

opening production: citizens as producers? 

maker spaces as emerging commons?

opening or closing?

Connectivity LabConnectivity Lab will be an open collaborative lab space connecting researchers, companies, public institutions, organisations and citizens and giving them access to tools, new technologies, knowledge and skills in order to experiment with and prototype ideas, products and services. The aim of the lab is to be a centre for prototype development in the space between the physical and the virtual.

emerging publics: new forms of thinging?

publics in the making?

new media – new publics?

November 2011 the streets around Tahrir 

Haur du sitt Malmö haur du sitt varden?design thinging in the city

‐”Engaging, mobilizing, connecting and triggering stakeholders‐Paying considerable attention to marginal resources (inclusive approach!)‐Connect top down structures with bottom up grass root initiatives. ‐Setting up open‐ended design processes

‐living with uncertainty‐navigating with and within designing networks‐striving for serendipity‐ a lot of patch work (it will be that anyhow)

‐Facilitating collaborative problem formulation and agonistic spaces (that allow controversies to reside side by side).‐Setting up public small‐scale experiments to rise questions and dilemmas‐Be ready and have the ability to act on unexpected opportunities”Per‐Anders Hillgren, Malmö Living Labs

design thinging in the city

Designing: from “objects” to “things”

Design labs: from “projects” to “thinging” and “infrastructuring”?

Design things: from “representation” to “articulation”

Design locus: “design for use” to “design in use”?

Design activities: from “design for politics” to “political design”?

Thank You