Designing With or Against Institutions? Dilemmas of Participatory Design in Contested Cities

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2022-08-22

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Taylor and Francis

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This article explores growing concerns behind the potential instrumentalization of participatory design within democratic institutions and city-making projects. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during a participatory urban redevelopment in Sydney, it analyzes the wider political, economic, and cultural dynamics shaping participatory design (PD) in contested urban spaces. As a result, the article reflects on the institutional frameworks that challenged the democratic claims of PD, analyzing three interdependent levels of institutional constraints: ideology, governance, and narratives. In doing so, the article interrogates the role of expert-led urban governance, of neoliberal ideologies, and the power/knowledge relations in the building of a consensus narrative. Finally, the article concludes by highlighting the contingency of the so-called constraints, exploring an alternative conceptualization of institutions as social relations. Following this approach, designers may challenge constraints and simultaneously work with, against, and beyond institutions.

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Dore, M. (2022). Designing With or Against Institutions? Dilemmas of Participatory Design in Contested Cities. Design and Culture, 15(1), 27–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2022.2103957
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