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Original Articles

Disentangling participation through time and interaction spaces–the case of IT design for energy demand management

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Pages 45-59 | Received 15 Dec 2016, Accepted 28 Nov 2017, Published online: 21 Dec 2017
 

Abstract

Participatory Design has recently seen growing interest in developing critical forms of reflexivity able to disentangle the complexity of participatory ensembles. This article makes a methodological contribution to this endeavour. Drawing on socio-cognitive analyses of collaborative design, it proposes the frame of ‘interaction spaces’ as a scaffolding tool for conducting retrospective analyses of participatory design processes. The paper uses the ‘interaction spaces’ frame to analyse the three years of collaborative activities of the CIVIS Project. Through a longitudinal and multi-dimensional account of participatory dynamics involved in the designing, prototyping and testing of an IT platform for home energy management, the frame evidences how participatory configurations evolve over time; it makes clearer the characteristics of participation as partial and overtaken; and it identifies moments of cross-participation as potential basis for the boundary-spanning of design issues.

Acknowledgements

The authors would also like to thank all the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.

Notes

1. For a technical overview of the platform architecture and platform design see Huang et al. (Citation2017)

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