Fostering cooperative activism through critical design

TY - GEN

T1 - Fostering cooperative activism through critical design

AU - Menendez Blanco, Maria

AU - Bjørn, Pernille

AU - De Angeli, Antonella

N1 - Conference code: 20

PY - 2017/2/25

Y1 - 2017/2/25

N2 - Critical design is gaining momentum in interaction design, yet little CSCW research has focused on articulating the cooperative potentials of critical design artefacts. We address this gap by reflecting upon a design project aimed at overturning the prevailing narrative regarding dyslexia in Italy. The adversarial propositions embedded in our critical design artefacts challenged the description of dyslexia as a learning disorder putting forward the view of a learning difference. These artefacts demonstrated their capacity to bridge heterogeneous social worlds (those of teachers, children, and parents) into one cooperative entity and mobilise cooperative activism. The contribution to CSCW is two-fold. Firstly, we introduce the cooperative potentials of critical design artefacts; secondly, we propose critical design as a strategy for researchers engaging with cooperative activism.

AB - Critical design is gaining momentum in interaction design, yet little CSCW research has focused on articulating the cooperative potentials of critical design artefacts. We address this gap by reflecting upon a design project aimed at overturning the prevailing narrative regarding dyslexia in Italy. The adversarial propositions embedded in our critical design artefacts challenged the description of dyslexia as a learning disorder putting forward the view of a learning difference. These artefacts demonstrated their capacity to bridge heterogeneous social worlds (those of teachers, children, and parents) into one cooperative entity and mobilise cooperative activism. The contribution to CSCW is two-fold. Firstly, we introduce the cooperative potentials of critical design artefacts; secondly, we propose critical design as a strategy for researchers engaging with cooperative activism.

U2 - 10.1145/2998181.2998198

DO - 10.1145/2998181.2998198

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 618

EP - 629

BT - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

T2 - 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Y2 - 25 February 2017 through 1 March 2017

ER -