People not only purchase and use products and services, but creatively appropriate, hack, redesign and even innovate in them. Typologies of active use have emerged in various disciplines, remaining piecemeal even if complementary. Together they produce a blurry depiction of active design engagement, despite active use being pivotal to many emerging design approaches. To remedy this, we synthesize a taxonomy of different aspects of active use and design engagement. Use as-is, active use, locally new designs and globally new innovations mark different intensities of engagement. These can concern the material form of design, new uses, new meanings, adjustment to local settings, or the collective endeavours to shape communities and organizations, ideologies and imaginaries, and global platforms that facilitate active use.

人们不仅购买和使用产品和服务，而且创造性地对产品和服务进行修改，修改，甚至创新。主动使用的类型已经出现在各个学科中，即使是互补的也仍然是零碎的。尽管积极使用对于许多新兴的设计方法至关重要，但它们共同产生了模糊的积极设计参与感。为了解决这个问题，我们综合了活跃使用和设计参与的不同方面的分类法。照原样使用，积极使用，本地新设计和全球新创新标志着不同的参与强度。这些可能涉及设计的物质形式，新用途，新含义，对当地环境的调整，或者旨在形成社区和组织，意识形态和想象力的集体努力，以及促进积极使用的全球平台。