Politicising Public Engagement through Critical Design

通过批判性设计将公众参与政治化

• 批准号: 2435944
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2435944
• 关键词: Politicising; Public; Engagement; through; Critical

Drawing on debates around performativity, this thesis examines why organisations have not yet embraced critical design as an approach to public engagement. The work is important because it responds to changing public expectations of engagement which are moving beyond communication toward the political. This thesis argues that critical design could play an important role during this transition by providing an approach to fostering greater political engagement between organisations and the public. However, while critical design research calls for performative design approaches that challenge dominant ways of being, there is a growing recognition that these attempts only perpetuate them. In response, this thesis seeks to propose a new design approach to performative critique which enables rather than limits the political potential of the public's engagement with organisations. Specifically, the study will examine how adopting the performative attribute of an ethic of care within critical design might enable genuine political engagement between organisations and the public. Participatory action research provides the methodological framework for the study, with the researcher following an iterative cycle of reflection and action to collaboratively explore how the adoption of an ethic of care within critical design might help politicise public engagement in three UK-based organisations. To ensure wider impact, a final provocation will provide an opportunity for new audiences to consider the broader implications of adopting an ethic of care within critical design. The output of the study will be a set of design principles that support the adoption of critical design within organisations, a series of case studies and artefacts that describe the application of these principles in practice, and a small festival showcasing critical design in public engagement. These outputs will be presented online, alongside a set of provocations to promote and inform future work on critical design research and practice.

借助围绕表演性的争论，这篇论文探讨了为什么组织尚未将批判性设计作为公众参与的一种方式。这项工作之所以重要，是因为它回应了不断变化的公众对参与的期望，这种期望正在从沟通转向政治。这篇论文认为，批判性设计可以通过提供一种方法来促进组织和公众之间更大的政治参与，从而在这一转变中发挥重要作用。然而，尽管批判性设计研究呼唤挑战主导存在方式的表演性设计方法，但越来越多的人认识到，这些尝试只会使它们永久化。作为回应，这篇论文试图提出一种新的设计方法，以实现而不是限制公众与组织接触的政治潜力。具体地说，这项研究将研究如何在批判性设计中采用关怀伦理的表演性属性，从而使组织和公众之间能够真正进行政治接触。参与性行动研究为研究提供了方法论框架，研究人员遵循反复思考和行动的循环，合作探索在批判性设计中采用关怀伦理如何有助于将三个总部位于英国的组织的公共参与政治化。为了确保更广泛的影响，最终的挑衅将为新的受众提供一个机会，让他们考虑在批判性设计中采用谨慎伦理的更广泛的影响。这项研究的成果将是一套支持在组织内采用批判性设计的设计原则，描述这些原则在实践中的应用的一系列案例研究和人工制品，以及一个展示公众参与中批判性设计的小型节日。这些成果将与一系列挑衅一起在网上展示，以促进和告知未来在关键设计研究和实践方面的工作。