Title
Out of Scandinavia to Asia: adaptability of participatory design in culturally distant society
Abstract
Participatory design (PD) has historically started and traditionally been conducted in Scandinavian contexts, where participation is an integral part of the social value. In this paper, we report our experiences conducting PD approaches in Japan, where social value systems and understandings of participation differ from Scandinavia. The project shows how Japanese utilize PD to solve an extraordinary, disastrous tsunami situation. We exemplify how negative parameters for participation vanish and new social value is created locally and temporary when certain conditions are fulfilled. We argue that culturally distant societies can reasonably adapt PD and use the most of its essence by providing a localized micro-mechanism for consolidating the conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2348144.2348152
PDC
Keywords
Field
DocType
localized micro-mechanism,scandinavian context,social value,new social value,pd approach,certain condition,disastrous tsunami situation,culturally distant society,social value system,participatory design,integral part,social values,public good,natural disaster
Adaptability,Economic growth,Participatory design,Public good,Public relations,Sociology,Knowledge management,Natural disaster
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.66
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mika Yasuoka1184.36
Ryo Sakurai281.33