Computing and the Common. Hints of a new utopia in Participatory Design
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https://doi.org/10.7146/aahcc.v1i1.21318Keywords:
Participatory design, commons, common, utopiaAbstract
In this statement, I draw upon the need of Participatory Design to engage with new utopias. I point to contemporary critical theories and to concurrent social conditions that make possible to identify the construction of the common as a possible utopia. In conclusion, I suggest that forms of community-based participatory design could be actual practices supporting such utopia.
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