The Scandinavian school of participatory design within information
systems traces its roots to sociotechnical systems, action research
and the Tavistock school of the 1950s. The seminal methods were
developed in the late 1970s and were mostly geared towards workplace
emancipation.
Pelle Ehn's "Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts" is a
mandatory source here: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1102017
Best,
Jonas Löwgren
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