This volume explores the history of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program
that began in the US in 1980, with funding from the National Science Foundation. We …

Participants' skills are highly important for a democratic design process, enabling everyone
to participate and skilfully use designed tools and methods. This is particularly relevant for …

Learning scientists have historically been interested in understanding how learning
happens and in creating innovations to facilitate learning in real-world situations. Recently …

Introduction This e-zine documents the discussions and group work done at the
'Infrastructuring in Participatory Design'workshop, a full-day event that took place at the …

In his ground-breaking work on the habitus Bourdieu (Outline of a theory of practice.
Cambridge University Press, 1977,[4]) understands practices as the permanent …

Increasingly the world around us is becoming 'smart'. From smart meters to smart production,
from smart surfaces to smart grids, from smart phones to smart citizens.'Smart'has become …

This paper presents spazioD, a design case around the topic of dyslexia. Building on
selected contributions from the literature on infrastructuring in participatory design and …

Despite the widely recognized importance in the museum sector of cultivating safe,
welcoming spaces for projects that work towards social change, few studies consider how …

Traditionally infrastructure studies are post-hoc analyses of emergent phenomena. While
acknowledging the contextual complexity of co-evolution, there has been a turn toward …

Participatory Design (PD) seeks political change to support people's democratic control over
processes, solutions, and, in general, matters of concern to them. A particular challenge …