Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy

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Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future.Innovation and design need not be about the search for a killer app. Innovation and design can start in people's everyday activities. They can encompass local services, cultural production, arenas for public discourse, or technological platforms. The approach is participatory, collaborative, and engaging, with users and consumers acting as producers and creators. It is concerned less with making new things than with making a socially sustainable future. This book describes experiments in innovation, design, and democracy, undertaken largely by grassroots organizations, non-governmental organizations, and multi-ethnic working-class neighborhoods. These stories challenge the dominant perception of what constitutes successful innovations. They recount efforts at social innovation, opening the production process, challenging the creative class, and expanding the public sphere. The wide range of cases considered include a collective of immigrant women who perform collaborative services, the development of an open-hardware movement, grassroots journalism, and hip-hop performances on city buses. They point to the possibility of democratized innovation that goes beyond solo entrepreneurship and crowdsourcing in the service of corporations to include multiple futures imagined and made locally by often-marginalized publics. Contributors M ns Adler, Erling Bj rgvinsson, Karin Book, David Cuartielles, Pelle Ehn, Anders Emilson, Per-Anders Hillgren, Mads Hobye, Michael Krona, Per Linde, Kristina Lindstr m, Sanna Marttila, Elisabet M. Nilsson, Anna Seravalli, Pernilla Severson, sa St hl, Lucy Suchman, Richard Topgaard, Laura Watts

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Pelle Ehn has been a member of the participatory design research community for many years. He is a coauthor of Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts, Design Things (MIT Press), and other books. Ehn, Topgaard, and Nilsson are part of Malm University's "digital Bauhaus." Elisabet Nilsson is a media, games, and learning researcher. Topgaard and Nilsson coedited Prototyping Futures. Ehn, Topgaard, and Nilsson are part of Malm University's "digital Bauhaus." Richard Topgaard is a digital media strategist. Topgaard and Nilsson coedited Prototyping Futures. Ehn, Topgaard, and Nilsson are part of Malm University's "digital Bauhaus." Pelle Ehn has been a member of the participatory design research community for many years. He is a coauthor of Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts, Design Things (MIT Press), and other books. Ehn, Topgaard, and Nilsson are part of Malm University's "digital Bauhaus." Elisabet Nilsson is a media, games, and learning researcher. Topgaard and Nilsson coedited Prototyping Futures. Ehn, Topgaard, and Nilsson are part of Malm University's "digital Bauhaus." Richard Topgaard is a digital media strategist. Topgaard and Nilsson coedited Prototyping Futures. Ehn, Topgaard, and Nilsson are part of Malm University's "digital Bauhaus." Elisabet Nilsson is a media, games, and learning researcher. Topgaard and Nilsson coedited Prototyping Futures. Ehn, Topgaard, and Nilsson are part of Malm University's "digital Bauhaus." Per Linde is a Researcher at Malm University. Ina Wagner is Professor at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Design. Per Linde is a Researcher at Malm University. Ina Wagner is Professor at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Design. Laura Watts is a poet, writer, ethnographer of futures, and Interdisciplinary Senior Lecturer in Energy and Society in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh. As a science and technology studies scholar she has explored the effect of "edge" landscapes on how thefuture is imagined and made.She is coauthor ofEbban an' Flowan, the world's first poetic primer formarine renewable energy, and in 2017 shewon the International Cultural Innovation Prize with the ReconstrainedDesign Group for acommunity-built energy storage device designed fromscrap.