Journal
SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE
Volume 43, Issue 2, Pages 241-264Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0306312712471581
Keywords
design; design things; participation; publics
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- NSF [IIS-0915624, ISE-0741685]
- Intel
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Of late, there has been a renewed and reinvigorated exchange of ideas across science and technology studies and participatory design, emerging from a shared interest in publics'. In this article, we explore the role of participatory design in constituting publics, drawing together recent scholarship in both science and technology studies and participatory design. To frame our discussion, we present two case studies of community-based participatory design as empirical examples. From these examples and the literature, we discuss the ways in which the concepts of infrastructuring and attachments are central to the constitution of publics. Finally, through an analysis of our case studies, we consider the differences between the practices of enabling participation and infrastructuring, calling attention to the ways that constituting publics foregrounds an engagement with authority structures and unknown futures through the participatory design process.
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