[ecrea] Call for special issue. ‘Co-design and the Public realm’

We are very happy to announce the call for papers for our special
issue "Co-design and the public realm" that will be published in
“CoDesign. International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the
Arts“. We invite researchers from different disciplines (e.g. design,
architecture, Human-Computer Interaction, social sciences, cultural
studies) to contribute to this call by submitting a paper.
Contributions to the discussion on the themes addressed in the call
can also be submitted on the TRADERStalkplatform. For any further
questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Feel free to pass
this on to anyone who might find it interesting.

CFP: Co-design and the Public Realm.
Special Issue of CoDesign - International Journal of CoCreation in
Design and the Arts

Guest editors: Liesbeth Huybrechts, Jon Geib, Hilde Heynen, Henric
Benesch, Jessica Schoffelen


SCOPE
Co-design’s engagement with the public realm is rooted in an activist
tradition aspiring to increase democratic participation of diverse
societal groups in design activities related to public space,
services, systems or policy. This is partly due to its historical
relationship with the tradition of Scandinavian Participatory Design
(PD) that developed in the 1970s and shared concerns and values with
labour unions in emancipating workers at the workplace (Bannon & Ehn,
2012, p. 39; Lenskjold, Olander, Halse, 2015). However, since the rise
of the Post-Fordist era, the engagement of co-design with the public
realm has changed: it has been influenced by increasing globalisation,
flexibility, rapid technological developments, a highly diverse and
competitive market and accordingly changing social conditions (Boudry
et al, 2003, 43). Many aspects that were traditionally part of the
public domain – such as mobility or communication infrastructure –
shifted to the private domain, resulting in progressively more complex
relations with governance and regulation (Graham & Marvin, 1994;
Davis, 1990; Harvey 1994, Christopherson 1994). In short, in a
Post-Fordist context, designing takes place across previously
delineated contrasting pillars (or economic sectors, socio-political
families, and discourses), such as public/private, work/leisure,
local/global, the boundaries between which become increasingly
blurred.

In Design for The Real World (1971), Papanek saw engaging with
activism and the market as antithetical. Post-fordism has eradicated
prior distinctions, whereby today co-design is being simultaneously
applied to improving labour relations, consumption and political
activism, by bringing a wide range of actors together to identify and
develop that which is to come. In this context, it is not unusual that
participation and co-design act as a conduit for market forces and
other forms of private interest. This has again – but in different
ways than in the 1970s – intensified the discourse in co-design on the
political and public sphere. This prompts some questions that we would
like to address in the framework of this special issue.

What are the consequences, tensions and challenges of co-design
engaging with the public realm when that realm is increasingly
entangled with private forces?
What concepts, frameworks, tools, methods are used and what values are
pursued to answer these challenges?
In an era of growing social, ecological and economic injustice, is the
answer found in the mobilisation of all possible forces, including
design, in order to challenge the marketisation of the political?
Or, on the contrary, is the answer to pull back and rethink co-design
in this era of blurred boundaries?
Additionally, are divisions between public and private productive; or
are there other alternatives?


We invite authors to submit research papers in relation to one or more
of the above questions. Fieldwork can be used to enrich the discussion
on the above questions and to allow us to revisit co-design addressing
the public realm in a Post-Fordist era.


TIMELINE
March 2016: Launch of the call
30th of September 2016: Submission of full papers
30th of December 2016: Post-review notification of decisions
30th of March 2017: Deadline for submission of revised papers
30th of May: Final selected papers to production
30th of September 2017: Publication of the Special Issue


REFERENCES
Bannon, L. J. & Ehn, P. (2012). Design: Design Matters in
Participatory Design. In Simonsen, J. and Robertsen T. (eds.)
Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design. New York,
NY.: Routledge, pp 37-63.

Boudry, L. Cabus, P. Coryn, E., De Rynck, F., Kesteloot, C., Loeckx,
A. (2003). De Eeuw van de Stad. Over stadsrepublieken en rastersteden.
Brussel: Project Stedenbeleid, Administratie Binnenlandse
aangelegenheden.

Christopherson, S. (1994) The Fortress City: Privatized Spaces,
Consumer Citizenship. In Amin, A. (Ed.). (2011). Post-Fordism: a
reader. John Wiley & Sons.

Davis, M. (1990). City of quartz. Excavating the Future in Los
Angeles.London: Vintage.

Graham, S. & Marvin, S. (1994). More than Ducts and Wires:
Post-Fordism, cities and utility networks.
In Healey, P. Et al (eds), (1994) Managing Cities: The New Urban
Context, London- John Wiley

Lenskjold, T.U., Olander, S. Halse, J (2015). Minor Design Activism:
Prompting Change from Within. Design Issues 31 (4), pp. 66-77.

Harvey, D. (1994) Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization:
Reflections on ‘Post-modernism’ in the American City. In Amin, A.
(Ed.). (2011). Post-Fordism: a reader. John Wiley & Sons.

Papanek, Victor (1971). Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and
Social Change. New York, Pantheon Books.



INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
We invite full manuscripts by 30th of September 2016, which will be
subjected to the normal review procedure of the journal. Papers
submitted in response to this call are expected to address the
questions it raises. The guest editors will reject papers judged to be
outside the scope of the call without further review.

Manuscripts should be prepared according to guidelines which can be
found on the journal website (www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ncdn – link
“Instructions for Authors”). All submissions should be made online at
the CoDesign Manuscript Central site
at:http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ncdn. Authors submitting to
CoDesign for the first time will need to create an account.
Instructions on how to do this can be found on the same website.

All published articles will undergo rigorous peer review, based on the
guest editors’ initial screening and anonymous refereeing by
independent expert referees.

(Potential) authors should contact (liesbeth.huybrechts /at/ uhasselt.be)
with any questions about this special issue.

Find this call at:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/co-design-public-realm-call and
http://tr-aders.eu/special-issue-co-design-and-the-public-realm-call-for-papers/



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ArcK research group, Faculty of Architecture and Arts, University of
Hasselt, Belgium
Agoralaan Gebouw E, B-3590 Diepenbeek

(liesbeth.huybrechts /at/ uhasselt.be)

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