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- Smedberg, Alicia, 1989-
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Collaborative Anecdotalizations
- 2021
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Ingår i: Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and agency of STS in emerging worlds. - Prague.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The notion of anecdotalization (Michael, 2012) suggest that anecdotes can be performative. They are not merely curious vessels of information or observations, but through the act of telling of them they can also do. Using examples from a city planning project in Malmö, Sweden, where methods for citizen engagement have been developed and tested I will discuss how anecdotalization can be collaborative (and how this potentially can lead to multiple understandings/worlds).The project saw a meeting between the participant’s practices, worldviews, and priorities - which did not always align. Finding ways of cultivating a mutual understanding between the various actors has been imperative, while at the same time disagreements and ruptures into the work were welcomed as a natural part of any democratic process. But welcoming agonism is not the same as being able to handle it, or knowing how to move forward. Anecdotalization, a chain of re-tellings of an anecdote, afforded the group to collaboratively build an understanding of a rupture that encapsulated more than one perspective. Collaborative anecdotalization is a shared, relational practice of performing many-world worlds (Law, 2015).
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- Smedberg, Alicia
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Temporal Scales of Participation : a Rift Between Actors and Spectators
- 2021
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Ingår i: NORDES 2021. ; , s. 130-134
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Participatory design is a future-oriented discipline, but there is an imbalance in agency between those who produce future imaginations, and those who consume them. This paper argues that we, as designers and producers of future-oriented design interventions, hold responsibilities towards third party “spectators”. The paper departs from an incident that took place two years after a Future Workshop had taken place between public sector workers and citizens in Malmö, Sweden, when a concerned third party mistook the workshop’s potential and preferred imaginations of the future for truths. In the light of Hannah Arendt’s writings on imagination the paper separates actors from spectators, marking a difference in agency but also a difference in temporality. For the actors’ imagination is directed towards the future, while it for the spectators is directed towards the past, or present at best.
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