d MAteriAl MAtters in Co–designing M issert ette Mette Agger eriksen Participation in design is broadening, and there is a movement away A A gger from designing to co-designing. They are related, but the little co- makes tion: them different organizational and socio-material practices. Practically, MAteriAl MAtters co-designing typically takes place in multidisciplinary, distributed, eriksen n complex projects, where people – and invited materials – only Medi ew in Co- designing occasionally meet, align and make each other act, in the situation at quite explicitly staged co-design events. A , P , Formatting & Staging with With a broad view of materiality and focus on co-designing as processes, U this work suggests ways of understanding and staging a co-designing bli Participating Materials in Co-design C practice, which entails a move away from a focus on methods and pre- sP designed proposals, towards an acknowledgement of participating Projects, Events & Situations heres, materials and formatting co-designing. This calls for additional ‘material’ (broadly understood) of the co-designer, including skills of drawing together and delegating roles to non-humans as parts of A nd For nd staging co-designing with others. Further, it necessitates a different M A understanding of co-design processes from what can be efficiently teri managed to materially staging performative co-designing. M s o s A l M l F This practice-based, programmatic and materially interventionistic A e tters in tters work builds upon and draws together about ten years of engaging with x P hundreds of people and materials in many co-design networks, projects, ression events and situations, through five experimental, participatory design research projects, teaching and other co-design ‘workshop’ series. Partly C o-designing in opposition to the ‘classic’ design field of industrial design, the thesis intends to contribute to the (co-) design fields of interaction design and especially participatory design, but also to co-creation and service design. This could be a format MA l M ö University2012 ö ISBN: 978–91–7104–432–7 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts AARHUS Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation AU UNIVERSITY The School of Design DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Mette Agger eriksen Material Matters in Co- designing Formatting & Staging with Participating Materials in Co-design Projects, Events & Situations this is reMaterialized Will this Make you aCt? The thesis you are holding in your hands is the final rematerialization of vivid dia- logues and interactions between people and materials. To mention only a few of them: Me / my laptops / my lovely family / my supervisors / my many notebooks / diffe- rently coloured pens / 5 mm foam board / my previous publications / piles of books / Donald Schön’s work / Bruno Latour’s work / my many colleagues / many, often cut-out prints-outs / Lucy Suchman’s work / dispo- sable cups/ my pocket camera / boxes and bags of diverse working materials / work by Tine Damsholt et al. / elephant snot / mate- rializations from the many projects I have been involved in / work by participatory de- sign researchers / hobby knives and scissors / Richard Schech-ner’s work / my great (gra- phic designer) sister / tape / emails / Etienne Wenger’s work / different summer houses / K3 / my daily bike–rides / work by Elisabeth Shove et al. / my ‘blog-book’ / DKDS / the PhD and Service design networks I have been en- gaged in in Sweden and Denmark / DAIMI / Victor Turner’s work / wooden miniature dolls / post-its / attended conferences / co- design event agendas / printers / etc. etc. etc. a/ 'Grounded Imagination' conference workshop (2003) / WorkSpace / Appendix 01 b/ 'Design Dialogues - Workshop 1' (2009) / Appendix 07 / Exemplar 05 c/ Kick-off partner workshop (2008) / DAIM / Appendix 05 / Exemplar 03 d/Per:form co-design event (2006) / XLab / Appendix 04 / Exemplar 04 e/ Service Project Landscape event (2008) / Teaching / Appendix 07 / Exemplar 01 a/ b/ c/ d/ e/ f/ g/ h/ f/ Ball from 'Playful Interaction' vision video (2003) / WorkSpace / Appendix 01 g/CoWall or Tangible Archive at K3 (2004) / Atelier / Appendix 02 h/ 'Assembly' workshop (2004) / PalCom / Appendix 03 / Discussed in Chapter 9 i/ CoWall or Tangible Archive at K3 (2004) / Atelier / Appendix 02 i/ j/ k/ l/ m/ j/ Project de-briefing situation with 'The Game Table' (2004) / Atelier / Appendix 02 k/ Rehab Future Lab co-design event (2005) / PalCom / Appendix 03 / Exemplar 02 l/ Future Architects' Lab event (2002) / WorkSpace / Appendix 01 / Exemplar 06 m/ Closure of waste-handling stakeholder workshop (2008) / DAIM / Appendix 05 n/ Demonstrator-demo at 2nd EU review (2006) / PalCom / Appendix 03 n/ o/ o/ 'Beginnings' workshop with 'project landscapes' (2006) / XLab / Appendix 04 p/ 'Grounded Imagination' conference workshop (2003) / WorkSpace / Appendix 01 q/ 'Semi-Public Places' project with 'mixed-media model' (2003) / Atelier / Appendix 02 r/'Semi-Public Places' project with 'mixed-media model' (2003) / Atelier / Appendix 02 p/ q/ r/ Doctoral dissertation in Interaction Design Dissertation series: New Media, Public Spheres, and Forms of Expression Faculty: Culture and Society Dept.: School of Arts and Communication – K3 Malmö University © Copyright Mette Agger Eriksen, 2012 Design: Trine Agger Eriksen Layout: Trine Agger Eriksen, Sofie Ellebæk Illustrations: Mette Agger Eriksen Backcover photo: Lone Eriksen Photos: Mette Agger Eriksen, Colleagues/stakeholders in the projects/events unless stated otherwise Fonts: Parsons Green, Kunstuff by e-Types, Playtype.com Print: Holmbergs, Malmö 2012 Printing partly funded by: The Crafoord Foundation The following institutions have co-financed and/or co-hosted this work: Danish Centre for Design Research (DCDR) / The Danish Design School, Denmark Computer Science Department (DAIMI), Aarhus University, Denmark Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweeden The Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education, Sweden ISBN: 978–91–7104–432–7 Mette agger eriksen Material Matters in Co- designing Formatting & Staging with Participating Materials in Co-design Projects, Events & Situations Malmö University, 2012 Information about public defence and electronic version For information about the time and place for the public defence and an electronic version of the dissertation: http://hdl.handle.net/2043/13674 Acknowledgements Thanks... / To my lovely Lars for the life and family we have built together all while developing this work. I really appreciate your tremendous patience and funny ways of twisting everyday situations. You pushed and assisted me to finish it and you made me laugh during the tough times. / To my two wonderful sons, Tue and Eske, for your great patience too. I appriciate your straightforward way of asking “Mom, when are you finished with that PhD?” You both have the ability to drag me into playing and into building funny waste robots and giving great hugs. / To my dear sister, Trine, for continual understanding along the way and especially for your great work on the layout of this thesis. Also to Peter and Lily, for letting her follow me all the way. / To my dear parents, Rigmor and Steen, and parents-in-law, Karen and Jesper, for your continual great back-up sup- port. It has been a tremendous help. / To my strong grandma Ruth, for, in the middle of it all, reminding me which ‘things’ are important: Good health…and Scrabble! / To my dear friends, for (hopefully) still being there. I have thought of you often. / To my main supervisor, Pelle Ehn, for your unending great support, always fruitful feedback and for encouraging me to research in my co- designerly ways. / To my additional supervisor, Thomas Binder, for inspi- ring discussions, collaborations and your provocative and constructive feedback along the way. / To Peter Krogh and Preben Mogensen for inviting me into the world of participatory (IT) design research (in the WorkSpace project). / To Moni- ka Büscher for your ways of introducing me to academic publishing, and for collaboratively exploring how to materially merge designerly and ethnomethodological ways of working with ‘Grounding Imagination’. / To my other colleagues in the WorkSpace project, for being open to my suggestions of how to collaborate: Michael Christensen, Peter Ørbæk, Kaj Grønbæk, Jannie F. Kristensen, Dan Shapiro, Martin Ludvigsen, Chris- tian Grosen Rasmussen, the landscape architects and several others. / To my colleagues in the Atelier-project as well as in the Creative Envi- ronments at K3 / Malmö University, for letting me into your inspiring communities: In Malmö; Pelle Ehn, Thomas Binder, Jörn Messeter, Per Linde, Janna Lindström, Peter Warren, Simon Niedenthal, Lone Malm- borg, Bo Petterson. Across Europe: Ina Wagner, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Giulio Iacucci, Georgio De Michelis, Kari Kuutti and several others. Also to all the students who engaged in the project. 18 Acknowledgements /To my colleagues in the Palcom-project, for challenging me to try to un- derstand your various professional (material) practices. In Malmö: Jonas Löwgren, Thomas Sokoler, Per Linde, Stefan Olofsson, Jörn Messeter. In Århus: Morten Kyng, Preben Mogensen, Margit Kristensen, Jesper Honig Spring, Peter Andersen, Ole Lehrmann Madsen, Gunnar Kramp, Jørgen Rasmussen. Across Europe: Dominic Greenwood, Patrizia Marti, Antonio Rizzo, Giulio Toccafondi, Paul Luff, Christian Heath and many others. Also to the staff and patients at the Handsurgery Rehabilitation Dept. / To my colleagues in the Xlab-project,