The Applicability of Participatory Design for Urban Community Building.

Zhu Mingjie (2020)

Participatory design was introduced in Scandinavia in the 1970s, which invites researchers, designers, developers and users to participate in software design together for promoting democracy in the workplace. This research focuses on the application of participator design in community building, which regards participator design as a process of community self-organisation and development through community mobilisation and collective action. Particularly, the thesis examines the interrelationship between participatory design and community, and the adaption of participatory design within the community context of Mainland China. With regard to the concept of “community differential mode” suggested by the Chinese sociologist, Xiaotong, this study proposes specific design strategies and summarises three general principles [dynamic, transform and progressive] to enhance the applicability of participatory design in mainland China. 

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