Abstract

This paper aims to understand how asset-based approaches can enhance how design researchers work with communities. Asset-based approaches support people to share perspectives of complex societal issues, recognize local strengths and capabilities, and apply these to inform action and change. Situated in the field of participatory design and drawing from a project investigating concepts of wellbeing with a volunteer community in the Scottish Highlands, the paper explores how an asset-based mindset can shape research methods, tools, and techniques. This establishes practices of appreciative exploration, collaborative articulation, and creative activation. Advancing a model of asset-based practice, it proposes how design researchers can enrich their engagement with contexts and communities, strengthen participants’ ownership over the process, and co-design outputs to communicate experiences and insights to multiple stakeholders and audiences.

摘要

本文旨在了解基于资产的方法如何增强设计研究人员与社区的合作。基于资产的方法支持人们分享复杂的社会问题的观点，认识当地的优势和能力，并将其应用于行动和变革。本文位于参与性设计领域，并从与苏格兰高地的志愿者社区进行的健康概念调查项目中汲取了灵感，本文探讨了基于资产的思维方式如何塑造研究方法，工具和技术。这建立了欣赏性探索，协作性表达和创造性激活的实践。它提出了一种基于资产的实践模型，提出了设计研究人员如何才能丰富他们对环境和社区的参与，增强参与者对流程的所有权，