Design Things and Design Thinking: Contemporary Participatory Design Challenges

Erling Björgvinsson is a researcher and teacher at Malmö University in interaction design. He has over ten years of experience working with collaborative and participatory design within the fields of culture and healthcare. His research area is in design methodology, specifically on collaborative and participatory design-lead research. He has published articles in, amongst others, CoDesign – International Journal of CoCreation in Design and The Arts and in The Proceedings of Participatory Design.

Pelle Ehn is a professor at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University in Sweeden. For more than 30 years, he has been engaged in research on design and participation, and has published widely on the subject. Major publications span from “Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts” (1988) to the collaborative work Design Things: A. Telier (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011).

Per-Anders Hillgren is a researcher and teacher at Malmö University in interaction design. He has over ten years of experience working with collaborative and participatory design within the field of healthcare, urban development and social innovation. His research area is in design methodology, specifically on collaborative and participatory design-lead research. He has published articles in, amongst others, CoDesign – International Journal of CoCreation in Design and The Arts and in The Proceedings of Participatory Design.