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Living Labs for Open-Ended Participatory Design
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3). Malmö University, Malmö Research Centre for Imagining and Co-Creating Futures (ICF).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3838-5367
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3). Malmö University, Malmö Research Centre for Imagining and Co-Creating Futures (ICF).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8836-7373
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3). Malmö University, Malmö Research Centre for Imagining and Co-Creating Futures (ICF).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2137-061X
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3). Malmö University, Malmö Research Centre for Imagining and Co-Creating Futures (ICF).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6830-1542
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2025 (English)In: Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design / [ed] Rachel Charlotte Smith; Daria Loi; Heike Winschiers-Theophilus; Liesbeth Huybrechts; Jesper Simonsen, Abingdon, England; New York, NY: Routledge, 2025, 1, p. 259-271Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Malmö Living Labs (2007–2017) built on a Scandinavian Participatory Design approach and aimed to explore how processes of change in the City of Malmö could be further democratised. In this chapter, as a community of remembrance, Participatory Design researchers of different ages, roles and duration of involvement recall and revitalise memories of lab engagements not previously told. The main challenge addressed concerns how to navigate Participatory Design processes with an aim of open-endedness. The chapter is structured as follows. First, the main source of inspiration is introduced: Umberto Eco’s metaphor of the forest as a narrative place of potential transformation. Next, comes a brief introduction to the context of Malmö Living Labs including its core theoretical foundations and ideas of democratisation, infrastructuring and heterogeneity. Then, at the centre of the chapter, four reflective stories of lab engagements are shared in the form of “Wanderings”. The aim of the stories is not to give voice to all people who participated but rather to reflect upon influential moments that made big imprints on each researcher. The Wanderings encounter the aftermath of a women’s association; a decade of moving in the “academic jungle”; intensities around a game jam; and embodied gatherings around a king’s chair. Lastly, the aim of the chapter is to learn from the challenges and opportunities fronted in the Wanderings and to propose points of attention for future open-ended Participatory Design practices. In addition to arguing for the value of storytelling as an approach to collective remembrance and learning, the three main contributions, proposed are; (1) to acknowledge and work with different intensities and paces in infrastructuring (2) to recognise the complex boundaries in heterogeneous networks, and (3) largely inspired by a dissertation from 2022 by one of the authors, to be carefully aware of the sensitised labour of infrastructuring.

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Abingdon, England; New York, NY: Routledge, 2025, 1. p. 259-271
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Routledge International Handbooks, ISSN 2767-4886
Keywords [en]
living labs, participatory design, open-ended, interaction design
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Design
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Interaktionsdesign
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-73315DOI: 10.4324/9781003334330-14Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85214929034ISBN: 9781003334330 (electronic)ISBN: 9781032368887 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-73315DiVA, id: diva2:1931480
Available from: 2025-01-27 Created: 2025-01-27 Last updated: 2025-09-30Bibliographically approved

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