Hi Jennifer,
There is a strong movement and lots of literature in design facilitation from the 1970s to present in the following fields:
Public participation in planning and urban design
Alternative/intermediate technology
Community development
Political activism
Social planning
Development architecture
Self help
Professional development
Crime Prevention through Environmental design
Community-based crime prevention
Community living movement (communes)
Community-based economic development
Cooperative movement (the most successful UK food coop is uses Beer's viable systems model as the basis for their organisation)
Business development
Eco-villages
Youth emancipation/street kids
Informal education
Many of the publications are difficult to obtain, some only available through the movements and otherwise out of print, some being reprinted, some are only accessible as grey literature, and some remain published but need search as they are often misleadingly titled.
There are seven (at least) distinctly different roles that designers can play in facilitation in these and similar areas:
Direct facilitation: standing up and coordinating the group and providing input academic style
Co- facilitation: being part of a multidisciplinary co-facilitation team
Tool developer: designing tools that are useful in the facilitation and community design processes
Background-based leadership facilitation
Direct public participation
Hidden community development involving direct participation
Advocate
(There are literatures criticising the ethics of each of these positions except simple direct participation)
If I have time, I'll try to get together a sample list of the literatures.
I have my own papers on some roles (in using design and design research in facilitation in activism, community development, and crime prevention through social and situational environmental changes).
Best wishes,
Terry
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Subject: Design Facilitation for participatory work
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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