The corruption of co-design political and social conflicts in participatory design thinking / Otto von Busch and Karl Palm©Æs.

Author/creator Busch, Otto von, 1975-
Other author Palm©Æs, Karl.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
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Contents Introduction : the problems of participatory design -- The realist challenge : power and possibilities -- Betrayal : post-political participation -- Corruption : design and decay -- Cunning : m©®tis and designerly statecraft -- Hypocrisy : of virtue and vice -- Closing propositions : after empathy, realdesign.
Abstract "Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world. Similarly, codesign tends to be described as a democratic mode of creativity that is somehow beyond reproach. But is change a virtue in itself, and do participatory practices always produce socially beneficial outcomes? Such questions are becoming more pressing as codesign has emerged as a dominant practice in planning and urban design, while also informing corporate management and public administration. In this book, Otto von Busch and Karl Palm©Æs suggest that designers tend to over-emphasise the place of ideals in design, leaving them ill-equipped to deal with a social world of power-wielding and zero-sum games. Seeking to re-orient the concerns of the Scandinavian tradition of participatory design, they suggest that co-design processes are rife with betrayals, decay and corruption, and that designerly empathy has morphed into a new form of cunning statecraft. In putting forward Realdesign as an alternative conception of design practice, von Busch and Palm©Æs ask: What hard lessons about the social must today's designers learn from realists like Machiavelli?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Busch, Otto von, 1975- Corruption of co-design New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 9781032250007
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