Participation in co-design: In search of a recipe for improved cookstoves in urban Indian slums
In 2015 we set to explore methods of breaking down the conventional dichotomies of ‘givers’ and ‘receivers’, ‘developers’ and ‘underdeveloped’, ‘experts’ and ‘users who need to be taught‘. The context of exploration? Urban Indian slums. The central actors? Residents of slums, designers and engineers, and us, the researchers. Main topic? Reducing indoor air pollution, designing […]
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Public facility design for sustainability: Participatory action research on household recycling in Hong Kong
While many researchers have pointed out that public design can increase users’ sustainable practices, how to achieve good public designs is challenging. To explore the current public design barriers and solutions to household recycling in Hong Kong, our research group, in collaboration with two Caritas Community Centres, adopted participatory action research, including questionnaires, interviews, nonparticipant […]
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