Hi David,
I would like to add something about participatory design (architecture) in the field of architecture. Henry Sanoff has started this in the late 1950s and have published already in the 1960. In architecture and urban design, the domain of citizen/design participation or participatory design were all the rage in the 1960s. And then, in the 1990-2000s --wait and see Everyone was creating a new domain about designing with the users/stakeholders, etc. It is true that at that the active use of the stakeholder concept came later.
The problem is that each and every design field invents "the sliced bread" on their own, thinking that they are the first. There is a trend to read papers only from the last three years and to claim novelty and newness. If people start reading 50 years back, they will realize that what they have read in the last three years is a parody of the well-forgotten old staff. Or at least reinventing the wheel, in good faith.
I personally will be very happy if I find something new and good that can be used. It happens, but rarely. In most cases, the old staff is reformatted in a new ideological framework, with new words (not even terms), with the exaltation of innovation.
There is a belief that everything new is better than the old. I would say -- this is true in the world of cars and smartphones. But in the world of ideas, things move differently. Evidently many people think like me because the Routledge Revivals serries started republishing 50-year old books that were thrown out of the library depositories.
Best wishes,
Lubo
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Hi Don,
A few reflections and hastily written notes. In the UK where I began my research in the mid to late 1960s, the concept of participative design was already well established. See, for example Nigel Cross .ed(1971)Design Participation conference proceedings. Bruce Archer’s many publications including his phd thesis. You should also look at the Byker Wall project in Newcastle upon Tyne. (Sorry no references to hand). In my own field, Information Design, the first information design conference edited by Ron Easterby and Harm Zwaga shows many aspects of work in the field in progress. I was at this conference which subsequently resulted in the Information Design Journal. You might also look at VisibleLanguage and its forerunner, the Journal of typographic research.
The field of ergonomics was already working in this broad area during this period.
These and many other publications were exploring this domain in the 1960’s 70s and 1980’s.
When the USA ‘discovered’ User-Centered Design, a decade later, many of us already in the field were somewhat amused.
Sorry to be so brief but in the middle of ’stuff'
David
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