Virtues in Participatory Design: Cooperation, Curiosity, Creativity, Empowerment and Reflexivity
Virtues in Participatory Design: Cooperation, Curiosity, Creativity, Empowerment and Reflexivity
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DOI：
10.1007/s11948-012-9380-9
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发表时间：
2013-09-01
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3.7
通讯作者：
Steen, Marc
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作者：
Steen, Marc
本文讨论了参与式设计（PD）工作人员所需的几种美德。这里使用的PD一词特指一种信息系统设计方法，它起源于20世纪70年代和80年代的斯堪的纳维亚半岛。通过美德伦理学的视角，并基于参与式设计的关键文献，对合作、好奇心、创造力、赋权和反思性等美德进行了讨论。合作有助于参与式设计项目中的人员进行合作性的好奇和合作性的创造。好奇心帮助他们同情他人及其经历，并参与共同学习。创造力帮助他们构想、尝试和实现想法，并共同创造新的产品和服务。赋权帮助他们分享权力，使其他人能够蓬勃发展。此外，反思性帮助他们感知并修正自己的思想、情感和行为。本着美德伦理学的精神——它关注具体情境中的特定人群——提供了一个参与式设计项目的几个例子。美德伦理学可能会吸引参与式设计项目中的人员，因为它以实践为导向，为探索和实验提供了空间，并促进了职业和个人发展。最后，讨论了一些实际应用、教育和进一步研究的想法。
In this essay several virtues are discussed that are needed in people who work in participatory design (PD). The term PD is used here to refer specifically to an approach in designing information systems with its roots in Scandinavia in the 1970s and 1980s. Through the lens of virtue ethics and based on key texts in PD, the virtues of cooperation, curiosity, creativity, empowerment and reflexivity are discussed. Cooperation helps people in PD projects to engage in cooperative curiosity and cooperative creativity. Curiosity helps them to empathize with others and their experiences, and to engage in joint learning. Creativity helps them to envision, try out and materialize ideas, and to jointly create new products and services. Empowerment helps them to share power and to enable other people to flourish. Moreover, reflexivity helps them to perceive and to modify their own thoughts, feelings and actions. In the spirit of virtue ethics-which focuses on specific people in concrete situations-several examples from one PD project are provided. Virtue ethics is likely to appeal to people in PD projects because it is practice-oriented, provides room for exploration and experimentation, and promotes professional and personal development. In closing, some ideas for practical application, for education and for further research are discussed.