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Taking [A]part: The Politics and Aesthetics of Participation in ExperienceCentered Design (Design Thinking, Design Theory),Used
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A critical inquiry into the value and experience of participation in design research.In Taking [A]part, John McCarthy and Peter Wright consider a series of boundarypushing research projects in humancomputer interaction (HCI) in which the design of digital technology is used to inquire into participative experience. McCarthy and Wright view all of these projectswhich range from the public and performative to the private and interpersonalthrough the critical lens of participation. Taking participation, in all its variety, as the generative and critical concept allows them to examine the projects as a part of a coherent, responsive movement, allied with other emerging movements in DIY culture and participatory art. Their investigation leads them to rethink such traditional HCI categories as designer and user, maker and developer, researcher and participant, characterizing these relationships instead as mutually responsive and dialogical.McCarthy and Wright explore four genres of participationunderstanding the other, building relationships, belonging in community, and participating in publicsand they examine participatory projects that exemplify each genre. These include the Humanaquarium, a participatory musical performance; the Personhood project, in which a researcher and a couple explored the experience of living with dementia; the Prayer Companion project, which developed a technology to inform the prayer life of cloistered nuns; and the development of social media to support participatory publics in settings that range from reality game show fans to online deliberative democracies.
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