新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Sharing Design Agency with Local Partners in Participatory Design(在參與式設計中與在地夥伴分享設計能動性)

摘要：

Partnerships with local actors are quite common in social design projects developed in unknown contexts. Several design researchers describe them as positive and supportive elements for project development. However, setting up a partnership may bring several unexpected challenges to the designer’s agency and have strong implications on the design process—with a level of influence that changes according to contextual conditions too. This paper aims to point out and discuss them. In order to do this, it explores what a local design partner could mean for the designer and the design process, by describing and analysing action research undertaken on a participatory design project conducted in a Brazilian favela in partnership with a local NGO. Three under-discussed issues about local partnerships emerged and are examined through partnership, power, delegation, and agency theory. Lastly, five strategies to deal with them and to strengthen the designer’s practice are presented.

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對社會設計方案而言，在未知的脈絡下要和在地夥伴合作是常見的事，一些研究者會將在地夥伴們描述成對方案發展正向且支持的角色。然而，建立夥伴關係對設計者而言會帶來許多預期之外的挑戰，對設計歷程也有很重大的影響—影響的程度也會隨著背景脈絡的不同而異。本文旨在描述與討論這樣的現象，透過描述與分析巴西非政府組織在巴西貧民窟進行的參與性設計的行動研究，探索在地設計合作夥伴對設計者和設計過程可能的意義，研究發現三個討論不足的議題，並通過夥伴關係，權力，授權和能動性理論進行了探究之。最後，本文提出五種策略，以期強化設計師的實踐並應對這些問題。