Politicising Public Engagement through Critical Design

围绕表演性的辩论，本文探讨了为什么组织还没有接受批判性设计作为一种方法，以公众参与。这项工作很重要，因为它回应了公众对参与的不断变化的期望，这种期望正在从沟通转向政治。本文认为，批判性设计可以发挥重要作用，在这一过渡提供了一种方法，以促进组织和公众之间的更大的政治参与。然而，虽然关键的设计研究呼吁表演性设计方法，挑战主导的存在方式，但人们越来越认识到，这些尝试只会使它们永久化。作为回应，本文试图提出一种新的设计方法，使而不是限制公众参与组织的政治潜力的表演批评。具体来说，这项研究将探讨如何采用关键设计中的护理伦理的表演属性可能使组织和公众之间真正的政治参与。参与性行动研究为研究提供了方法论框架，研究人员遵循一个反复的反思和行动周期，共同探索在关键设计中采用护理伦理如何有助于将三个英国组织的公众参与政治化。为了确保更广泛的影响，最后的挑衅将为新的受众提供一个机会，让他们考虑在关键设计中采用关怀伦理的更广泛影响。该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，一系列描述这些原则在实践中应用的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。这些成果将在网上展示，同时还将提供一系列启发，以促进和通报未来关键设计研究和实践的工作。

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.