#participatory

[katchwreck]

We vote 'For!' (the collective farm)

1920s, USSR.

[rawjeev]

"In reality, we participate in knowing: there is no 'view from nowhere'."

—Ian McGilchrist, The Matter With Things.

[noosphe-re]

We had this old idea, that there was a universe out there, and here is man, the observer, safely protected from the universe by a six-inch slab of plate glass. Now we learn from the quantum world that even to observe so minuscule an object as an electron, we have to shatter that plate glass, we have to reach in there. So the old world observer simply has to be crossed off the books and we must put in the new term: participator. In this way we have come to realize that the universe is a participatory universe.

John Wheeler

[aholdingspace]

Mustapha Akrim

[oripeau]

N°139 | Performance participative By Yvan Hydar ↦ FRA www.yvan-hydar.fr

[shapingautismresearchuk]

New Publication: Shaping Autism Research UK

Over the course of three years (2015-2017), the Shaping Autism Research seminar series (#ShapeARUK), funded by the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council, was organised by autistic and non-autistic people and aimed at determining if/how we should make autism research more participatory.

In August 2018, a paper reporting on this seminar series was published in the journal Autism. 

Although there is a large and growing body of autism research, it doesn’t always influence the community effectively (e.g., by changing how autistic children are taught in schools). “Participatory research” refers to research in which members of a community work with academics, to achieve shared goals. These methods are thought to produce information that is relevant to people’s lives and thus may be particularly likely to have a positive impact on communities.

The published paper describes five topics that were identified, through the seminars, as being important for participatory research in autism: (i) Respect, (ii) Authenticity, (iii) Assumptions, (iv) Infrastructure and (v) Empathy. Further, the paper calls to action for more participatory autism research, including greater autistic leadership of research.

Publication:

Fletcher-Watson, S., Adams, J., Brook, K., Charman, T., Crane, L., Cusack, J., Leekam, S., Milton, D., Parr, J.R., & Pellicano, E. (2018). Making the future together: Shaping autism research through meaningful participation. Autism You can read the open-access paper here.

This paper is also accompanied by a free downloadable toolkit – A Starter Pack: Shaping Autism Research UK – on participatory autism research to encourage others to work in this way.

[paperswanted]

Participatory Educational Research

from International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, final submission on 30th November 2018

View full call or article at Emerald calls for papers

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[eartharchitecturejasper]

Today on the Participatory Design Conference, organised by Hasselt university. My role here is to help out on the organisation, but it’s interesting to reflect on the releation with my research. The relevance of earth construction for social sustainability has been a topic that I reflected on before. Earth as a material often triggers differerent ways of participatory design. A close back and forth relation between architect, client, constructor, engineer is necessary when experimental design questions emerge. Also the ‘hands-on’ aspect of the material enables several people to build together, therefor becoming participatory building. When having people with the appropriate role and knowledge participating in this construction new designs might emerge on site. Such a close relationship between designing and building leads to innovative and specifically adapted solutions that could only emerge through this method. See for example the way that Jan De Vylder works.