Andrea BoteroLectio Precursoria (DA defense)20.9.2013Opponent: Dr Monika Büscher

< personal anecdote >

“Baby-friendly hospital”

Baby-centredness (?)

Common sense

Giving birth and assisting a birth, is neither a miracle nor a routine/mechanical thing to do. For a child to be

brought to life many partnerships of many kinds are needed. Because it takes time, one should think about the before and the after. Things do not necessarily end

up with a baby being born: once there is a baby, it needs to be taken care of. There is no point in trying to manage and predict the outcome. However a lot can

be done through companionship and caring.

“It takes a village to raise a child ”African proverb

</ personal anecdote >

Giving birth and assisting a birth, is neither a miracle nor a routine/mechanical thing to do. For a child to be

brought to life many partnerships of many kinds are needed. Because it takes time, one should think about the before and the after. Things do not necessarily end

up with a baby being born: once there is a baby, it needs to be taken care of. There is no point in trying to manage and predict the outcome. However a lot can

be done through companionship and caring.

NO HERO

DESIGNERS

User Centred Design

Experience design, etc

Participatory

Design

The “fuzzy front end” of innovation(aka = the delivery)

It takes a village (Does it?)

Communal Endeavours

Communal Endeavours

Communal Endeavours

Two cases

First case

Growing old together in Loppukiri

Miina, a web based everyday life management system for a co-housing community

Second case

Active forms of citizenship in the interactions of citizens and city officials

Urban Mediator, a web-based platform for location based “issue sharing”

Issue reporting / Issue sharing

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II Botero, A., & Saad-Sulonen, J. (2008). Co-designing for New City-citizen Interaction Possibilities: Weaving Prototypes and Interventions in the Design and Development of Urban Mediator. In J. Simonsen, T. Robertson, & D. Hakken (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Participatory Design Conference pdc08 (pp. 266–269). Bloomington, Indiana, USA: CPSR/ACM.

III Botero, A., & Kommonen, K.-H. (2009). Coordinating Everyday Life: the Design of Practices and Tools in the Life Project of a Group of Active Seniors. In Proceedings of the cost 298 Conference: The Good, the Bad and the Challenging (Vol. II, pp. 736 – 745). Slovenia: abs-Center and cost 298 Action.

IV Botero, A., & Saad-Sulonen, J. (2010). Enhancing Citizenship: the Role of In-between Infrastructures. In T. Robertson, K. Bødker, T. Bratteiq, & D. Loi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference pdc10 (pp. 81–90). Sydney, Australia: ACM.

V Botero, A., & Hyysalo, S. (2013). Ageing Together: Steps Towards Evolutionary Co-design in Everyday Practices. CoDesign, 9(1), 37–54.

VI Botero, A., Kommonen, K.-H., & Marttila, S. (2010). Expanding Design Space: Design-In-Use Activities and Strategies. In D. Durling, R. Bousbaci, L.-L. Chen, P. Gauthier, T. Poldma, S. Roworth-Stokes, & E. Stolterman (Eds.), Design & Complexity: Design Research Society International Conference (p. 18). Montreal, Canada: DRS.

Design space(s)