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TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing With or Against Institutions?
T2 - Dilemmas of Participatory Design in Contested Cities
AU - Dore, Mayane
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Design and Culture on 22/08/2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17547075.2022.2103957
PY - 2023/1/31
Y1 - 2023/1/31
N2 - This article explores growing concerns behind the potential instrumentalization of participatory design within democratic institutions and city-making projects. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during a participatory urban redevelopment in Sydney, it analyzes the wider political, economic, and cultural dynamics shaping participatory design (PD) in contested urban spaces. As a result, the article reflects on the institutional frameworks that challenged the democratic claims of PD, analyzing three interdependent levels of institutional constraints: ideology, governance, and narratives. In doing so, the article interrogates the role of expert-led urban governance, of neoliberal ideologies, and the power/knowledge relations in the building of a consensus narrative. Finally, the article concludes by highlighting the contingency of the so-called constraints, exploring an alternative conceptualization of institutions as social relations. Following this approach, designers may challenge constraints and simultaneously work with, against, and beyond institutions.
AB - This article explores growing concerns behind the potential instrumentalization of participatory design within democratic institutions and city-making projects. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during a participatory urban redevelopment in Sydney, it analyzes the wider political, economic, and cultural dynamics shaping participatory design (PD) in contested urban spaces. As a result, the article reflects on the institutional frameworks that challenged the democratic claims of PD, analyzing three interdependent levels of institutional constraints: ideology, governance, and narratives. In doing so, the article interrogates the role of expert-led urban governance, of neoliberal ideologies, and the power/knowledge relations in the building of a consensus narrative. Finally, the article concludes by highlighting the contingency of the so-called constraints, exploring an alternative conceptualization of institutions as social relations. Following this approach, designers may challenge constraints and simultaneously work with, against, and beyond institutions.
KW - participatory design
KW - codesign
KW - institutioning
KW - urban planning
KW - Sydney
KW - neoliberal urbanism
U2 - 10.1080/17547075.2022.2103957
DO - 10.1080/17547075.2022.2103957
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 27
EP - 47
JO - Design and Culture
JF - Design and Culture
SN - 1754-7075
IS - 1
ER -