Book Launch Fri 3rd Oct 12 CET: Design Participation. Palgrave MacMillan 2025
by prof. Sampsa Hyysalo
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-95437-5 (Open Access)
The zoom link to the launch event: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/68882981567
13-14 Helsinki time (EET)
12-13 Central European Time (CST)
11-12 UK time (GMT)
To walk the talk of the transformative potential of design, todays designers,
planners and innovators must seriously pursue design that contributes to
positive environmental and social change. But how to go about pursuing it?
Design participation presents doable and demonstrated ways by which design can
become a major contributor to social and environmental change. This entails a
shift from seeking to define solutions to opening spaces in which
othersactivists, entrepreneurs, civil servants, neighborhood communities,
politicianscan effectively elaborate on and find (re)solutions to the issues
they are facing. Indeed, the last decades have seen an ever-widening public
participation in transformative projects by industry and public
administrations alike, across the globe. It is now time to pursue design
participation for real: in earnest, skillfully and for real problems. This is
central message of the book: participation matters but only if we duly
attend the matters of participation in pursuing it. In the book launch we
examine seven ways to expand our understanding of participation in design:
From design solutions to design participation; From participatory design to
design participation; From professional designers to those who engage people;
From participatory ideals to design participation work; From concept design
workshops to active use and design-in-use; From invited participation to
invested participation, and; From designable change to catalyzing actions into
motion to achieve sociotechnical change. The 30 mins overview presentation is
followed by dialogue with book contributors Prof Cindy Kohtala (Ume) prof
Andrea Botero (Aalto) in response to audience questions posed by researchers
and practitioners.
Sampsa Hyysalo is professor of CoDesign in Aalto University, Finland. His
interdisciplinary research focuses on designer-user relations in
sociotechnical change, and bridges design participation, science & technology
studies, and innovation studies. This has meant empirical and theoretical
research on how change happens in technoscientific contexts and how new
technologies shape, and shaped by, everyday life and everyday work. His
interest in designer user relations has meant investigating how the use and
design can be arranged alternatively and to what effects. This has over the
years lead to over 100 peer review articles and eight books through his
engagements in participatory design, codesign, open and user innovation,
living labs, open design, maker spaces, peer knowledge creation, user
communities and citizen science.
https://www.aalto.fi/en/people/sampsa-hyysalo
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