KomInDu - A Small Project about Big Issues
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Annelie Ekelin, Pirjo Elovaara, Sara Eriksén, Yvonne Dittrich, Christina Hansson, Sölve Landén, Anita Larsson, Ida Olén, Jeff Winter |
| Title: | KomInDu - A Small Project about Big Issues |
| Conference name: | PDC 2004 |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Pagination: | pp.28-31 |
| ISBN: | 0-9667818-3-X |
| Publisher: | CPSR |
| City: | Toronto |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning (Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad) School of Technoculture, Humanities and Planning S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tks.bth.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | annelie.ekelin@bth.se, pirjo.elovaara@bth.se, sara.eriksen@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | In this short paper, we present glimpses from an interdisciplinary research and development project aimed at enhancing local democracy by developing ICT support for the consultation process around the comprehensive plan of a municipality. For the participating researchers, the project offered the opportunity of combining and comparing approaches and methods from two different design traditions that share democratic ideals and ambitions of nurturing citizen/user participation in design processes. This proved to be more challenging than we had originally anticipated. Differences in perspective gave different interpretations of the design context as well as of how participatory the processes actually were. |
| Subject: | Human Work Science\Participatory Design Computer Science\Effects on Society Spatial Planning\Local Planning |
| Keywords: | Planning, consultations, participatory design, e-democracy, citizens' perspectives, users' perspectives |
| Note: | The proceedings from the biennial Participatory Conferences (PDC) will soon be available via the Internet. |
