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T1 - Community-led design capabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
AU - Fonseca Braga, Mariana
AU - Romeiro Filho, Eduardo
AU - Galvão Guimarães Pereira, Haddon
AU - Tsekleves, Emmanuel
AU - L.O. Mendonça, Rosângela Míriam
PY - 2021/9/29
Y1 - 2021/9/29
N2 - COVID-19 threats have been impacting disadvantaged communities even harder.This paper looks into challenge areas and community responses to those in Brazilian informal settlements during the COVID-19 pandemic. These were identified through online roundtables with community members and representatives of NGOs in five Brazilian informal settlements.Our findings show how community members unconsciously design, deploying community-led (or diffuse) design capabilities to tackle COVID-19 challenges. These capabilities have been critical to coping with the immediate effects of the pandemic in communities. However, they are limited to short-term and reactive strategies. We argue that these natural problem-solving skills can be enhanced through a transition from diffuse to co-design capabilities to further harness community creativity towards better futures; extending community-led designcapabilities into challenges and opportunity areas in a more strategic way for communities.This research contributes to filling the gap in design studies on how and to which extent communities unconsciously design.
AB - COVID-19 threats have been impacting disadvantaged communities even harder.This paper looks into challenge areas and community responses to those in Brazilian informal settlements during the COVID-19 pandemic. These were identified through online roundtables with community members and representatives of NGOs in five Brazilian informal settlements.Our findings show how community members unconsciously design, deploying community-led (or diffuse) design capabilities to tackle COVID-19 challenges. These capabilities have been critical to coping with the immediate effects of the pandemic in communities. However, they are limited to short-term and reactive strategies. We argue that these natural problem-solving skills can be enhanced through a transition from diffuse to co-design capabilities to further harness community creativity towards better futures; extending community-led designcapabilities into challenges and opportunity areas in a more strategic way for communities.This research contributes to filling the gap in design studies on how and to which extent communities unconsciously design.
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
VL - 2
T3 - Cumulus Conference Proceedings Series
SP - 2165
EP - 2181
BT - Design Culture(s). Cumulus Conference Proceedings Roma 2021
A2 - Di Lucchio, Loredana
A2 - Imbesi, Lorenzo
A2 - Giambattista, Angela
A2 - Malakuczi, Viktor
PB - Cumulus
CY - Aalto
ER -