Lecture with Hefin Jones (hefinjones.co.uk)
- works in service design and participatory design
- welsh space campaign
- problematic elements in terms of working within service design -> participation translated more into extraction -> “we got what we needed to get and then we left”
- Could the work/question to be done be posed by the people you’re working with rather you as an external person to that area
project “Cosmic Colliery”
- Opportunities: What happens when the designer is no longer present to drive the project? (‘self-organisation’)
- How did you engage people ? reimagine coal mining industry as an astronaut training facility as a means to change people’s relationship to the place
- Work with young people
- Who are the relationships that exist in that town. Who are the people that make up the infrastructure etc. -> reconfigure the relationships -> center them around the young people’s ideas and ambitions -> town planing or choirs for example -> aknowledge their ideas even unrealistic
- Which methods used to engage young people? – spending time in the place – expressing interest to work together – spending time with people working there (like leader at the youth center) – frame democracy or the involvement of the young people in charge so that it is interesting for them => like having conversations with them around certain issues
Book: Crossbending: Toward Participation as Critical Spatial Practice by Markus Miessen
informal, but important relationships that would grow
- being responsive, sensitive, not necessary impose yourself/what you think
- When no longer part of the project how to leave it behind?
- -getting people together
- -support others to lead the meetings (first he led them)
- -conversations and expectations
- -you can’t control everything, there is going to be unpredictable things
- -reimagining environments through fiction -> new perspectives
- -> film-making
- -there is always a specific context -> might not be a blueprint
- How to consider more marginal voices or issues of representation within work?
- -you can never involve everyone (his focus was on young people but for ex. not on another issue)
- never gonna understand everything about a given situation
What are you comfortable with? Speak to and listen to people
- How to negotiate issues of power and hierarchy (working with communities)
- -Honesty about why we are doing something
- -We are affected by power relations, different in each situation
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