notion : Co-design
Co-design
“What about design? What about participation in design? What about “co-design” as a form of participation? In recent years, design has seen a proliferation of initiatives, practices, projects and collectives that mobilize “participation” as a method of design, production and exchange. These approaches explicitly or implicitly mobilize modalities experimented with in the 19th century by socialist, anarchist and utopian movements; in the 20th century by American counter-culture movements; and more recently in the 21st century by librist movements stemming from the advent of digital technologies known as open source, free software or wiki. [...] It's a question of a recourse, not a return, since these approaches draw on past experience to anticipate what the future demands of us: a new psycho-social individuation, a general cultural transformation, capable of responding to the destructive effects of the globalization of the dominant aesthetic, economic and political model.” (Duhem, 2019)