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I N T R O D U C T I O N

• Transformation Economy

• Multi-stakeholder collaborations

• Bottom-up movements

• Decentralisation

• Deliberative democracy

PA R T I C I PAT I O N S O C I E T Y

F O C U SC O N T R I B U T I O N

• Our aim is not to design direct solutions to societal issues

• but instead we focus on designing deliberation tools for multi-stakeholders to tackle the societal issues together

• based on participatory sensemaking.

• Systemic mechanisms are ‘colonising’ the Lifeworld

• ”…reaching understanding in the sense of a cooperative process of interpretation” [Habermas 1981, p. 40]

• Stakeholders should engage in discussions that cross over the System and Lifeworld dichotomy and reach a common understanding

• System-Lifeworld (HABERMAS, 1981)

• Plurality(ARENDT, 1945)

• Phenemenology of Perception(MERLEAU-PONTY, 1985)

• Participatory Sensemaking(DE JAEGHER & DI PAOLO, 2009)

• Deliberative Democracy(FISHKIN & LUSKIN, 2005)

• Embodiment(HUMMELS & VAN DIJK, 2015)

F R A M E

T H E O R Y







F R A M E

• Distinctness & otherness

• Handeln

• Through action, we can discover and even affect each other’s opinions

• Table as metaphor of the public space

T H E O R Y







F R A M E

T H E O R Y

• We perceive and make sense of the world by interacting with and in it

• Designing for physical interaction opportunities (movements) might open up different ways to perceive and thus different ways to makes sense of the world

• Opens up ‘understanding’ beyond the limits of a verbal discussion







F R A M E

• Cognition is embodied in action

• Focus on the encounter itself wherein interactions can influence one another and meaning is generated in the ‘in-between’ between people, not in their separate minds.

T H E O R Y







F R A M E

• From the rationality of deliberation towards the interaction of deliberation

• We aim to enrich the concept of deliberative democracy in two ways:

• firstly, taking the autonomy of the interaction process into account, by focusing on the dynamics of participatory sensemaking,

• and secondly, by bringing the notion of embodiment into play.

T H E O R Y







F R A M E

• Scaffolds: inviting physical objects or spaces, props, that allow for creative thought and bind conversations or meaning and also gain meaning through interaction with them.

• Traces: positions, selections or compositions of scaffolds that refer to the interactions in the meaning-making process; they form a tangible or visible history and they can become scaffolds themselves.

T H E O R Y

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C O N T R I B U T I O N

• PRODUCT(2) 15 tracking tables each with 15 tokens with icons and 1 real-time visualisation of token movements

• SERVICE(1) Expectation management, Invitation, (3) Analysis, report, video-impression, (4) Collective evaluation session.

• SYSTEMToken movements are tracked and visualised in a real-time visualisation.

3 C A S E SC A S E S T U D I E S

• What do citizen initiatives need to flourish?

• How can housing corporation and tenants work together on enjoyable living in the city?

• How can housing corporation and tenants work together on enjoyable living in the village?

Figure 6. Part of the spatial arrangement in case 3

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B A C K T O T H E F O C U S

• “…our aim is to contribute to deliberative democracy, by designing and evaluating embodied deliberation tools that enable multi-stakeholders to

collaborate on societal issues using participatory sensemaking.”

I M P L I C AT I O N S F O R D E L I B E R AT I O N

• Introducing physical and visual elements to enrich deliberation

• Scaffolds: icons, tokens(HUMMELS & VAN DIJK, 2015)

• Traces: visual representation(HUMMELS & VAN DIJK, 2015)

I M P L I C AT I O N S

• Questioning each other

• Elucidating viewpoints

• Listening

• Building onto each other’s contributions

• Hierarchy

I M P L E M E N TAT I O N

• Introducing physical and visual elements to enrich deliberation

• Scaffolds: icons, tokens(HUMMELS & VAN DIJK, 2015)

• Traces: visual representation(HUMMELS & VAN DIJK, 2015)


• Reflection

• Sense of scale

• Other or unknown perspectives


• Introducing design tools in deliberation processes


• Expectation management

• Design tool not limited to one event

• Close collaboration partners

• Open process

• Sharing research insights


F U T U R E W O R K

D E S I G N D E V E L O P M E N T

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