Dear all,
Thank you for bringing up valuable questions about the roles of a designer
in participatory research.
I have been working on the impact of a designer as a facilitator in
communities of practice in urban and rural parts of Turkey. In my
dissertation titled Designer As Enabler: A Methodology of Intervention,
I developed strategies to enable makers self-innovate.
As Salu mentioned, I too take facilitation as a concept of constructivist
education theory following mainly Freire and Dewey. In education theory
facilitation aims at self reflection. My design facilitation
practice also aims at self-development of participants.
From this approach, I am not sure whether user participation in
industry can be facilitation because in education theory facilitation is
for change on people. In educational facilitation people grow as a
result of the actions, I am not sure how people grow in design
facilitation for industry.
If you are interested in the use of design skills, knowledge and identity
with the particular aim of community empowerment my thesis is available as
a pdf. I can email it to anyone interested. Also we have another recent
publication on facilitation procedures developed by designers for self
innovation :
Kaya, C. and Gelmez K., (2014) "Grassroots empowerment with design in a
community of practice in Turkey" Journal of Arts and Communities, Volume 5,
Issue 1. Intellect.
Best regards,
Cigdem
Alinti Ylirisku Salu <[log in to unmask]>
> Dear Jennifer and all,
>
> Thank you Jennifer for pointing at this issue.
>
> For the last decade I have been actively working as both a design
> facilitator as well as designing researcher in various collaborative
> projects (more than 10 projects with industry partners), and I’ve grown
> to learn that the skill to facilitate is a very important skill in
> today’s design context. Through effective facilitation it is possible
> not only to harness the human resources and understandings that are
> brought together into design events, but also to bring the materials
> that matter for the project on stage in a constructive manner. I’d be
> glad to see research on this topic to grow substantially.
>
> As an answer to some of your questions, I would say that there are
> fundamental similarities between design facilitation and the
> facilitatory work that educators do. Parallels are easy to see if we
> look at the work in terms of “guided construction of knowledge”
(which I
> have adopted from an education scholar Neil Mercer). In my own research
> I have studied innovation design processes through the lens of learning,
> which have yielded insights into the capacity of the design team to
> become able to speak of the complexity that they face through a simpler
> conceptual lens.
>
> A key difference that I see between what educators do as compared to
> design facilitation is that design facilitators work to enable a team to
> learn about something that has never existed before, whereas, educators
> typically have a priori understandings of some kind that they want their
> audience to conceive of. This per se may not necessarily cause
> differences for the facilitation of the learning events, but rather, the
> key difference stems from how deep and sustained learning is being
> sought after.
>
> I have tried to find materials on design facilitation, and it seems
> scarce - especially when searching for materials with this term. The
> most interesting papers I’ve found on this are:
>
> Berry, M. (1993). Changing Perspectives on Facilitation Skills
> Development. Journal of European Industrial Training, 17(3).
> doi:10.1108/03090599310026355
>
> Kolfschoten, G. L., Hengst-Bruggeling, M., & Vreede, G.-J. (2007).
> Issues in the Design of Facilitated Collaboration Processes. Group
> Decision and Negotiation, 16(4), 347–361. doi:10.1007/s10726-006-9054-6
>
> Wardale, D. (2008). A Proposed Model for Effective Facilitation. Group
> Facilitation: A Research & Applications Journal, 9, 49 – 58.
>
> There seems to be an association to design facilitators (IAF), and they
> have published some works. I, nevertheless, was hoping to see more
> theoretical depth in these studies. But, practical experiences there
> seems to be plenty.
>
> (Sorry for the rather long posting)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dr. Salu Ylirisku
> Leader of the Embodied Design Group
> Aalto University
> Department of Design / Research
> http://designresearch.aalto.fi/groups/edg/
>
> PS: Personally I am currently interested in studying design facilitation
> with the framing analysis method that I have been developing. In case
> you are interested in learning more about the method you may contact me
> personally, or check my academia.edu page:
> https://aalto-fi.academia.edu/SaluYlirisku
>
> PS2: I have (with a student of mine) also been inspecting productive
> facilitation-in-action by inspecting how facilitators work to set (or
> participate in setting of) frames for collaborative action. This work is
> still in progress hopefully we get it published next year.
>
> On 16 Sep 2014, at 02:40, Jennifer Smerdel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As participatory design and co-design are becoming increasingly popular
>> I want to know what you all think of design facilitation in
>> participatory research.
>>
>> What is the difference between a designer who is facilitating a group
>> of participates through a process versus a business person or an
>> educator? Or is there a difference? Who out there is practicing what we
>> call "design facilitation" and are there different best
>> practices/frameworks/components even within design facilitation?
>>
>> Any and all comments are welcome as well as links to any scholarly
>> research you all think may be helpful in answering these questions even
>> further!
>>
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Ms. Cigdem Kaya
Associate Professor, MFA, PhD
Istanbul Technical University
Department of Industrial Product Design
Taskisla, Istanbul 34437, Turkey
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