Hi Terry,
Just to contribute information on two of your questions.
Scandinavian participatory movement comes from the traditions of Scandinavian Social Democracy. The Soviets were precluding any attempt of citizen participation. Participation doesn't go well with totalitarianism, which has very strong system of top-down decision making.
In the 1980s, in East Europe, there was growing interest in participation, mostly in Poland and some other states. However, this interest was confined to a few scholars or research centers. Most of the information was borrowed directly from Western sources. In that case, the West informed the developments in East Europe.
May be after 1990 some people started doing business with this, but in that case they probably have turned to Western sources and experience. With the development of the new democratic structures, there were multiple ways to hear about participation.
Scandinavian Activity Theory is heavily based on Soviet Activity Theory and in particular, its psychological variety. There are different activity models in different disciplines. Some of these are not well known on the West. They actually might be more interesting and productive for future development. One example is the work of the Moscow Methodological Circle.
Best,
Lubomir
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Hello,
Offlist, Ken has asked me about my use of the word 'common' in regard to his post. Obviously what I wrote wasn't clear enough.
My comment that Ken's analysis was 'common' to others was about his focus on product design as a surrogate for design activity in general (not that the specifics of his analysis were common to others).
It was in this context of avoiding the common focus on product design and graphic design that my analysis was indicating that:
1. Fields of design such as Information Systems Design, MIS, Urban Design and the hundreds of fields of Engineering Design have well established theories, processes and procedures for addressing participatory design issues some going back a couple of hundred years.
2. Somehow these are overlooked in many areas of design and there is an attempt to reinvent them in a more simplistic manner.
As an aside, for Scandanavian developments, has anyone looked at the historical foundations of such developments from the historical flow of theory and knowledge on design from Russia into Scandanavia that influenced design theory and participative design ideas?
I'm thinking of precursors of Vigotsky, Leont'ev, Luria and others whose knowledge followed that northern arc of transmission. Its also interesting, as Jinan has raised, that studying children has offered substantial understanding of improving design as many design theories including those of Activity Theory, ANT and Flow developed their design theories on the basis of their study of children.
Best wishes,
Terry
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