After being involved with a community project in 2021, I had the opportunity to experience firsth... more After being involved with a community project in 2021, I had the opportunity to experience firsthand the complexities and conflicts that come with trying to engage communities or to mediate collaborations between them. Having had the time to look back over our approaches and methods of conducting our projects, it is beneficial to assess the process and to extract the lessons we learnt from them. As designers, we can overlook the significance of giving agency to those involved within our work, which impacts the outcome heavily. The concept of collaborative process is to remove the idea of the "expert", which in turn empowers those who are able to be a part of it. Learning from one experience had led to the opportunity for another, which enabled a more refined approach to be taken. However, this project revealed a much deeper issue that highlighted the intricacies of participatory work. With both of these projects, I attempt to analyse the assumptions and realities of what collaborative design may face. I highlight the fact that every project must be handled individually, with careful consideration and sensitivity as a community can be so delicate to engage with, especially by us as onlookers who cannot fully understand the context or people we work with.
After being involved with a community project in 2021, I had the opportunity to experience firsth... more After being involved with a community project in 2021, I had the opportunity to experience firsthand the complexities and conflicts that come with trying to engage communities or to mediate collaborations between them. Having had the time to look back over our approaches and methods of conducting our projects, it is beneficial to assess the process and to extract the lessons we learnt from them. As designers, we can overlook the significance of giving agency to those involved within our work, which impacts the outcome heavily. The concept of collaborative process is to remove the idea of the “expert”, which in turn empowers those who are able to be a part of it. Learning from one experience had led to the opportunity for another, which enabled a more refined approach to be taken. However, this project revealed a much deeper issue that highlighted the intricacies of participatory work. With both of these projects, I attempt to analyse the assumptions and realities of what collaborative design may face. I highlight the fact that every project must be handled individually, with careful consideration and sensitivity as a community can be so delicate to engage with, especially by us as onlookers who cannot fully understand the context or people we work with.
After being involved with a community project in 2021, I had the opportunity to experience firsth... more After being involved with a community project in 2021, I had the opportunity to experience firsthand the complexities and conflicts that come with trying to engage communities or to mediate collaborations between them. Having had the time to look back over our approaches and methods of conducting our projects, it is beneficial to assess the process and to extract the lessons we learnt from them. As designers, we can overlook the significance of giving agency to those involved within our work, which impacts the outcome heavily. The concept of collaborative process is to remove the idea of the "expert", which in turn empowers those who are able to be a part of it. Learning from one experience had led to the opportunity for another, which enabled a more refined approach to be taken. However, this project revealed a much deeper issue that highlighted the intricacies of participatory work. With both of these projects, I attempt to analyse the assumptions and realities of what collaborative design may face. I highlight the fact that every project must be handled individually, with careful consideration and sensitivity as a community can be so delicate to engage with, especially by us as onlookers who cannot fully understand the context or people we work with.
After being involved with a community project in 2021, I had the opportunity to experience firsth... more After being involved with a community project in 2021, I had the opportunity to experience firsthand the complexities and conflicts that come with trying to engage communities or to mediate collaborations between them. Having had the time to look back over our approaches and methods of conducting our projects, it is beneficial to assess the process and to extract the lessons we learnt from them. As designers, we can overlook the significance of giving agency to those involved within our work, which impacts the outcome heavily. The concept of collaborative process is to remove the idea of the “expert”, which in turn empowers those who are able to be a part of it. Learning from one experience had led to the opportunity for another, which enabled a more refined approach to be taken. However, this project revealed a much deeper issue that highlighted the intricacies of participatory work. With both of these projects, I attempt to analyse the assumptions and realities of what collaborative design may face. I highlight the fact that every project must be handled individually, with careful consideration and sensitivity as a community can be so delicate to engage with, especially by us as onlookers who cannot fully understand the context or people we work with.
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