Designing for and with ambiguity
Subtitle: actualising democratic processes in participatory design practices with children
By: Annelies Vaneycken
Contributors: Göteborgs universitet. Högskolan för konst och design
Series: Artmonitor avhandling -- 79; ArtMonitor avhandling -- 79.
Publisher: ArtMonitor
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Göteborg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9789178338580
Subjects: Design; Public spaces; Planning; City planning; Citizen participation; Children
Other titles: Actualising democratic processes in participatory design practices with children
Description: In the last thirty years, there has been an increased interest in supporting children's participation in society, where the results of these practices may or may not have contributed to more democratic outcomes. In this thesis, I focus on the democratic character and potential of the 'processes' driving such practices, and their outcomes, which, to date, have mostly been overlooked. My inquiry is situated within the context of participatory design with children and explores how adult-initiated practices that work on children's participation in society, can, in addition to producing a democratic outcome only, also be actualised as a democratic process. Here, a 'democratic process' is understood as a process based on child-adult interactions that respect fundamental democratic values such as freedom, equality, and justice. My design practice, in this case, the 'Public Play' project, formed the core of my fieldwork and empirical material. 'Public Play' was a series of five participatory design workshops where groups of children and I worked together on children's participation in public space in Belgium and Sweden
Notes: Issued with thesis sheet including abstract

Doctoral thesis, Göteborgs universitet, Högskolan för konst och design, 2020

Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-60)