Abstract

Societal trends, such as the governmental withdrawal from the public realm, increasingly motivates communities to self-organize in taking care of it. As a result, designers have explored the concept of 'generativity' as a quality of design that supports communities in questioning, supporting and giving form to self-organization in the public realm. Nonetheless, a thorough investigation of how to enable generativity in the context of community-based participatory design (PD) is lacking. When designers give form to generativity, they intend to allow people to 'self-organize' by transforming and using infrastructures through and for debating and creating public matters, without assistance from the infrastructure's original designers. While design for informatics defines generativity with a focus on ‘self’-organized processes, we conclude that generativity in the context of designing for the complex politics of the public realm is a quality that mainly supports communities' ‘co’-organization. We describe the generative quality of design in the community project Betty's Garden and discuss how the specific roles and capabilities that were developed by the community and by us as researchers contributed to this quality.

摘要

社会趋势，例如政府从公共领域退出，越来越多地促使社区自我组织来照顾它。结果，设计师探索了“生成性”的概念，该概念是一种设计质量，可在公共领域为社区提出质疑，支持并形成自我组织的形式。但是，缺乏对如何在基于社区的参与性设计（PD）的背景下实现生成能力的深入研究。当设计师将形式赋予创造力时，他们打算允许人们通过改造和使用基础设施来进行“自组织”，并辩论和创建公共事务，而无需基础设施原始设计师的帮助。虽然信息学的设计以“自我”组织的过程为中心来定义生成，我们得出结论，为公共领域的复杂政治而设计时的生成性是主要支持社区“合作”组织的一种素质。我们在社区项目Betty's Garden中描述了设计的生成质量，并讨论了社区以及我们作为研究人员开发的特定角色和功能如何促进了这种质量。