Immigration gives rise to global and local changes that challenge social norms
and affect our lives. While the phenomenon of immigration has begun to attract
the attention of design researchers, the actual input of immigrants on setting the
design agenda is marginal. By involving immigrants in design processes, we
emphasise designers’ responsibility for social inclusion. In this context, the
research question that we aim address here is how to engage immigrants in
participatory design research.
To answer this question, we present a comparative study of two research
approaches we applied in Helsinki (Finland) while collaborating with immigrants
on two design projects. Pursuant to this study, it is our view that design
researchers working with immigrants must take into account the question of
emotional involvement. As design researchers, we often tackle issues of social
responsibility, too often ineffectively; with the necessary support,
Designing with Immigrants. When emotions run high Mariana Salgado
This was a presentation of a paper with the same title in the European Academy of Design. 21.04.15 Paris. France. This paper was written with Helena Sustar and Michail Galanakis.
Designing with Immigrants. When emotions run high.pptxMariana Salgado
This presentation took place in the 11th European Academy of Design. The value of Design Research. The paper was: Designing with Immigrants. When emotions run high. Paris, France. 2015
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This document summarizes a presentation about the role of culture in development cooperation. It discusses how culture and development are defined, and how they intersect. It reviews policy declarations that have recognized culture as the "fourth pillar" of development. It maps the broad field of cultural activities and sectors that could be involved in development, including arts, creative industries, and cross-cutting themes. It also discusses how culture and the creative industries can contribute to development goals in areas like education, health, social inclusion, and the economy. Finally, it addresses issues around funding and resources for cultural projects in development cooperation.
El Colegio Tierra de Pinares en Mojados, Valladolid ha sido nombrado el segundo Centro de Referencia SMART en Castilla y León en reconocimiento a su excelente uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en la educación. El director provincial de Valladolid entregó el premio a la directora del colegio.
Designing with Immigrants. When emotions run high Mariana Salgado
This was a presentation of a paper with the same title in the European Academy of Design. 21.04.15 Paris. France. This paper was written with Helena Sustar and Michail Galanakis.
Designing with Immigrants. When emotions run high.pptxMariana Salgado
This presentation took place in the 11th European Academy of Design. The value of Design Research. The paper was: Designing with Immigrants. When emotions run high. Paris, France. 2015
This document provides a planning and design document for the "Colours of Life" art therapy group project. It outlines the project hypotheses, goals, timeline, activities, and evaluation plans. The project aims to take a strength-based approach focusing on resilience and empowering refugee and asylum seeker participants. It will use art therapy, appreciative inquiry, and mindfulness techniques over weekly sessions to support participants' exploration of identity and journey of self-discovery. Considerations are given to cultural factors, trauma experiences, and developing cultural competence among the project team.
This document summarizes a presentation about the role of culture in development cooperation. It discusses how culture and development are defined, and how they intersect. It reviews policy declarations that have recognized culture as the "fourth pillar" of development. It maps the broad field of cultural activities and sectors that could be involved in development, including arts, creative industries, and cross-cutting themes. It also discusses how culture and the creative industries can contribute to development goals in areas like education, health, social inclusion, and the economy. Finally, it addresses issues around funding and resources for cultural projects in development cooperation.
El Colegio Tierra de Pinares en Mojados, Valladolid ha sido nombrado el segundo Centro de Referencia SMART en Castilla y León en reconocimiento a su excelente uso de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en la educación. El director provincial de Valladolid entregó el premio a la directora del colegio.
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The product is a collection of sport-themed posters featuring famous athletes from various sports. Each poster will prominently display a different athlete with a background and color scheme relevant to that athlete and their sport or nationality. The target audience is young males ages 13-18 who look up to athletes as role models. There will be no offensive content in the posters which will simply feature a logo, athlete, and background design. Original designs and logos will be created to avoid copyright issues.
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The two day Staad-Pro workshop and competition organized by Trinity College in association with Technex 17 of IIT-BHU was underway with over 50 student participants, including from other colleges. The workshop covered Staad-Pro, AutoCAD 2D and 3D, bridge design, and structural analysis topics. The organizers wished all teams the best in the zonal round competition.
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Designing with Inmigrants. When emotions run high Mariana Salgado
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This document discusses dealing with emotions in participatory design research. It describes a case study of workshops with immigrant women in Finland where strong emotions were triggered discussing migration stories. The workshops identified needs for language courses and community spaces. Emotions are unavoidable in this type of research and time for reflection, debriefing, and defusing is important. Design researchers take on multiple roles as confidants, translators, and facilitators, so being empathetic while not exacerbating emotions is key. When emotions run high, reserving time for discussion with colleagues or trained personnel is important.
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In this paper we reflect on our experiences of using cultural probes for co-creating a digital neighbourhood guide with and for older adults. We will focus on a specific set of probes that relate to the spatial dimension of social inclusion of older citizens with respect to their sense of attachment to their neighbourhood, their sense of security and familiarity in a neighbourhood as well as their sense of identity. Based on our experience in two different districts in the city of Bremen and different groups of older adults we present some first insights into how probes may establish older adults as experts in the design process or increase feelings of limitation and deficiency
Veröffentlicht durch die Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. 2017 in
M. Burghardt, R. Wimmer, C. Wolff, C. Womser-Hacker (Hrsg.):
Mensch und Computer 2017 – Workshopband, 10.–13. September 2017, Regensburg.
Copyright (C) 2017 bei den Autoren. https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2017-ws02-0292
Platzhalter für DOI und ggf. Copyright Text. (Bitte nicht entfernen).
Jarke, Juliane; Gerhard, Ulrike (2017): Using cultural probes for co-creating a digital neighbourhood guide with and for older adults. Mensch und Computer 20
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The document describes the methodological tools used in the EURODIPLOMATS project, which aims to empower children to act as cultural diplomats for Europe. The key tools are collaborative art-making pedagogy, collaborative art-making and poetry pedagogy, and digital-culture pedagogy. Collaborative art-making involves children working together on art to learn about different cultures and perspectives. Collaborative storytelling and poetry has children jointly create written works by contributing ideas. Digital-culture pedagogy utilizes online communication tools for intercultural exchange and understanding between students. The goal is for children to better understand cultural diversity through these collaborative creative exercises.
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A presentation in Ravello Lab 2010 about "Paths of knowledge. Cammino della conoscenza" an activity made in Espíritu Santo, Espinardo (Murcia) in 2010, Juin and July.
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Berita acara hasil rekonsiliasi selesai terbaru bener meriahFazri Gayo
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The two day Staad-Pro workshop and competition organized by Trinity College in association with Technex 17 of IIT-BHU was underway with over 50 student participants, including from other colleges. The workshop covered Staad-Pro, AutoCAD 2D and 3D, bridge design, and structural analysis topics. The organizers wished all teams the best in the zonal round competition.
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This document provides information on various Fluke test tools that support wireless connectivity via Fluke Connect. It describes infrared cameras, clamp meters, insulation meters, and other tools that allow sharing measurement data remotely. Instructions are given for finding more details on specific products in the catalog. Benefits of Fluke Connect like troubleshooting from a distance, trend analysis, and paperless reporting are also highlighted.
Designing with Inmigrants. When emotions run high Mariana Salgado
Presentation used in the European Academy of Design (2015) for presenting the paper with the same title. Paris, France. The paper can be found in: https://www.academia.edu/12261966/Designing_with_Immigrants._When_emotions_run_high
Participatory design fieldwork. Dealing with emotionsMariana Salgado
This document discusses dealing with emotions in participatory design research. It describes a case study of workshops with immigrant women in Finland where strong emotions were triggered discussing migration stories. The workshops identified needs for language courses and community spaces. Emotions are unavoidable in this type of research and time for reflection, debriefing, and defusing is important. Design researchers take on multiple roles as confidants, translators, and facilitators, so being empathetic while not exacerbating emotions is key. When emotions run high, reserving time for discussion with colleagues or trained personnel is important.
Using cultural probes for co-creating a digital neighbourhood guide with and ...Mobile Age Project
In this paper we reflect on our experiences of using cultural probes for co-creating a digital neighbourhood guide with and for older adults. We will focus on a specific set of probes that relate to the spatial dimension of social inclusion of older citizens with respect to their sense of attachment to their neighbourhood, their sense of security and familiarity in a neighbourhood as well as their sense of identity. Based on our experience in two different districts in the city of Bremen and different groups of older adults we present some first insights into how probes may establish older adults as experts in the design process or increase feelings of limitation and deficiency
Veröffentlicht durch die Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. 2017 in
M. Burghardt, R. Wimmer, C. Wolff, C. Womser-Hacker (Hrsg.):
Mensch und Computer 2017 – Workshopband, 10.–13. September 2017, Regensburg.
Copyright (C) 2017 bei den Autoren. https://doi.org/10.18420/muc2017-ws02-0292
Platzhalter für DOI und ggf. Copyright Text. (Bitte nicht entfernen).
Jarke, Juliane; Gerhard, Ulrike (2017): Using cultural probes for co-creating a digital neighbourhood guide with and for older adults. Mensch und Computer 20
This document summarizes research done for a final bachelor project on designing a cultural bridge between two cultures. It discusses definitions of culture, how to get in touch with other cultures through openness and respect, and the challenges of exchanging cultural values through a workshop with students from different backgrounds. The workshop aimed to develop tools to examine cultural differences but clashes occurred due to different communication styles. Exchanging values was found to be a long-term process requiring adaptation, and this influenced the design of an installation to stimulate social cohesion.
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This document is a reflective essay on a graphic design masters thesis project focused on linguistic diversity in India. The project used ethnographic research and poster designs to introduce the cultural complexities around the loss of traditional languages in India. The essay outlines the research process, from initial explorations of Indian visual culture to focusing on the political and social issues surrounding the predominance of English. Interviews revealed varied opinions on the significance of mother tongues. Posters were created featuring masks representing 22 official Indian languages to engage audiences and encourage reflection on cultural identity and preservation of diversity. The project aims to initiate dialogue around this important issue.
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Η επίτευξη του στόχου του προγράμματος βασίζεται στην προσέγγιση της πολιτιστικής διπλωματίας και στη χρήση νέων τεχνολογιών και καινοτόμων και δημιουργικών μεθοδολογιών, όπως η συνεργατική τέχνη, η συλλογική αφήγηση και η ποίηση και η ψηφιακή-πολιτισμική παιδαγωγική.
The Refugee Academy symposium of July 1st, which took place at the VU and was held in English, was devoted to the role and the resilience of civil society initiatives that aim to contribute to the societal inclusion of refugees in the Netherlands. Since the start of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in 2015, civil society initiatives and organizational networks have played a crucial role in helping and supporting refugees who entered the Netherlands. Since governance structures initially failed to adequately cope with the size and complexity of this ‘crisis’, many new grassroots and community organizations were formed that played a role in the field of reception and integration of refugees. They operated alongside and collaborated with national and local governments and established NGOs, and by doing so shined a light on the societal challenges and ambitions related to the inclusion of refugees in current times
The methodological tool of the EURODIPLOMATS project (1).pptxEurodiplomats
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publication promoting intercultural dialogue and mutual understandingMile Dimkoski
The document summarizes a training report on promoting intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding. It describes a training event hosted by Youth Council Prilep in 2011 that was funded by the Council of Europe and aimed to discuss intercultural dialogue and build understanding between European youth organizations. Over 4 days of workshops and activities, participants explored concepts like cultural diversity, discrimination, conflict management, and human rights to foster intercultural learning and develop ideas for future collaborative projects promoting intercultural dialogue.
A presentation in Ravello Lab 2010 about "Paths of knowledge. Cammino della conoscenza" an activity made in Espíritu Santo, Espinardo (Murcia) in 2010, Juin and July.
This document summarizes a summit organized by Cooper-Hewitt museum, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lemelson Foundation to discuss social impact design. The summit brought together 34 leaders in social impact design and representatives from foundations to discuss challenges in the field. Participants represented non-profits, for-profits, academics, and government. They identified gaps like a lack of clarity around what social impact design means, as well as challenges like cultural bias and difficulties implementing and sustaining projects. Participants also discussed models for social impact design organizations and pathways for education and careers in the field. Recommendations focused on expanding networks, emphasizing storytelling, increasing evaluation, and alternative funding strategies to support further progress
The document discusses rationales for political participation and citizenship in digital late modern society. It describes key characteristics of digital late modernity including dispersion of cultural frameworks, individualization, and a networked and digital environment. It then examines three types of rationality for participation: instrumental rationality which sees it as a means to an end; communicative rationality which aims for enlightenment through discussion; and expressive rationality where participation allows for expression and maintenance of identities. Expressive rationality may best explain both disinterest in traditional politics and new forms of civic engagement online.
This document outlines the lessons and schedule for a course on heritage management. It discusses key concepts like the definition of heritage, structure of proposals, legislation and copyright, critical analysis, stakeholders, target groups, and authenticity. For each lesson, it provides the date, topic, and brief description. It also lists relevant literature and background of the instructor. The estimated time to complete the course assignments is 20 hours. The document aims to provide students with the necessary framework and context to critically analyze heritage sites and develop effective management proposals.
Art Residency Program As A Form Of Creative Process For ArtistSarah Pollard
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An overview of the programme, participants, process and projects behind AFFECT' Second Edition, summer 2015.
AFFECT is a Program for Collaborative Artistic Practices in Berlin initiated by Agora Collective e.V.
Report of the International Observers on the G1000G1000org
Report of the International Observers at the G1000 Citizens Summit: Ida Andersen (Danish Board of Technology, Denmark), Prof. dr. David Farrell (University College Dublin, Ireland), Dr. Clodagh Harris (University College Cork, Ireland), Ms. Cécile Le Clercq and Ms. Joana Vieira da Silva (European Commission), Prof. Dr. Richard Stilmann II (University of Colorado Denver, USA), Dr. Julien Talpin (Université de Lille 2, France), Prof. Dr. Jean Tillie (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nederland), and Mr. Martin Wilhelm (Citizens for Europe, Germany)
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Un viaje a través de las múltiples rutas de investigación en diseño es el título de esta charla. Fue la charla magistral del 5to Encuentro de la Red Académica de diseño. 28.9. 2023 en Medellín, Colombia. En esta charla se identifican la investigación a través del diseño, sobre el diseño y para informar el diseño. Mostré proyectos diferentes en los que participé con diferentes roles en diferentes momentos.
From participation to policy: how design helps citizens shape immigration? It was the title of this presentation on the 15.9.2023, in the conference Legal Design. In this presentation, you will get a behind-the-scenes look at the real-life design work carried out for the preliminary studies of Finland's forthcoming immigration law, the Aliens Act. The project took place at the Department of Immigration within the Ministry of the Interior from 2021 to 2023, and it has been recently published and can be accessed here: https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/164810. .
Throughout the process, we integrated service design approaches at both operational and strategic levels, and during this presentation I will open up about my experience as designer. My aim was to have an open and honest conversation about the challenges of using participatory practices in lawmaking, using this case study as a prime example.
I explore how design could play a pivotal role in creating a more inclusive and citizen-centered approach to shaping immigration policy.
Durante el año 2017 hicimos un trabajo de prospectiva para pensar el futuro de una asociación multicultural basada en Finlandia: Ninho. Este trabajo lo hicimos con Andrea Botero.
Este fue una de las charlas principales en el Congreso Forma, en junio 2023, La Havana, Cuba. Esta charla cuenta y analiza dos casos de diseño de políticas públicas hechos en el Ministerio del Interior, en Finlandia. Luego, propone cual puede ser el rol del diseño en la creación de leyes.
Diseño, educación y políticas públicas.pdfMariana Salgado
Esta charla fue una de las charlas principales en el Foro de Diseño, los diseños y sus contextos en junio 2023. Esta charla antecedió a un panel sobre Diseño y políticas públicas que moderó Mariana Salgado y que prontamente será publicada como podcast en Diseño y diáspora.
Esta charla fue hecha en el Museo Urbano Interactivo del Tec de Monterrey, en Puebla, en junio 2023. La charla responde a la pregunta: de qué hablamos cuando hablamos de diseño feminista? Y lo hace analizando casos y entrevistas del podcast Diseño y diáspora. Esta charla precedía un panel sobre Resistencia feminista, que pueden escuchar como parte del podcast Diseño y diáspora. https://disenoydiaspora.org/434-resistencia-feminista-mexico-en-vivo-con-julieta-caballero-huelgas-ximena-garcia-ortega-regina-garcia-ortega-y-estefania-farias-guevara/
En esta charla presento el podcast Diseño y diáspora, su contenido y las prácticas alrededor de producir un podcast en diseño social. También propongo que tenemos que crear archivos para cuidar y proteger las historias de diseño de hoy. Los archivos orales de historia de diseño están en manos de podcasteres, o de empresas grandes que no prestan atención a su contenido y que pueden cambiar sus condiciones en cualquier momento.
Diseño, educación y políticas públicas.pdfMariana Salgado
Esta charla tuvo lugar en Puebla, México. Seguida de un panel sobre Diseño y políticas públicas. 23.6.23
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Esta es una presentación y un taller sobre el uso del podcast en la educación en diseño. Este taller fue llevado a cabo en junio 2023 en Puebla con 5 universidades. El blog sobre el tema es: https://disenoydiaspora.org/blog/uso-del-podcast-en-la-educacion-en-diseno-un-taller-para-repensar-nuestras-colaboraciones/
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Technoblade The Legacy of a Minecraft Legend.Techno Merch
Technoblade, born Alex on June 1, 1999, was a legendary Minecraft YouTuber known for his sharp wit and exceptional PvP skills. Starting his channel in 2013, he gained nearly 11 million subscribers. His private battle with metastatic sarcoma ended in June 2022, but his enduring legacy continues to inspire millions.
Architectural and constructions management experience since 2003 including 18 years located in UAE.
Coordinate and oversee all technical activities relating to architectural and construction projects,
including directing the design team, reviewing drafts and computer models, and approving design
changes.
Organize and typically develop, and review building plans, ensuring that a project meets all safety and
environmental standards.
Prepare feasibility studies, construction contracts, and tender documents with specifications and
tender analyses.
Consulting with clients, work on formulating equipment and labor cost estimates, ensuring a project
meets environmental, safety, structural, zoning, and aesthetic standards.
Monitoring the progress of a project to assess whether or not it is in compliance with building plans
and project deadlines.
Attention to detail, exceptional time management, and strong problem-solving and communication
skills are required for this role.
Designing with immigrants. When emotions run high.
1. ABSTRACT
Immigration gives rise to global and local changes that challenge social norms
and affect our lives. While the phenomenon of immigration has begun to attract
the attention of design researchers, the actual input of immigrants on setting the
design agenda is marginal. By involving immigrants in design processes, we
emphasise designers’ responsibility for social inclusion. In this context, the
research question that we aim address here is how to engage immigrants in
participatory design research.
To answer this question, we present a comparative study of two research
approaches we applied in Helsinki (Finland) while collaborating with immigrants
on two design projects. Pursuant to this study, it is our view that design
researchers working with immigrants must take into account the question of
emotional involvement. As design researchers, we often tackle issues of social
responsibility, too often ineffectively; with the necessary support, the
contribution of design researchers could be more socially relevant.
Keywords: design methods, immigration, participatory design, co-design
INTRODUCTION
Immigration gives rise to global and local changes that challenge social norms
and affect our lives. Issues of migration are an increasingly important part of the
political agenda and of the changing landscape of cities. With a few exceptions
(see e.g Clarke & Wright, 2012, Björgvinsson, Ehn & Hillgren, 2012; Keshavarz
and Mazé, 2013, Bobeth et al, 2013), design researchers fail to engage
immigrants in design processes. This paper is based on the premise that design
can be “understood as a form of intervention in which a particular social order
may be confronted with others” (Keshavarz & Mazé, 2013). If we intend to
undertake transformative action and to include people from different
backgrounds, it is necessary to find ways to involve immigrants in design
processes. In this paper, which is framed by the notion of social design, we
emphasise the need for designers to take responsibility for social inclusion
(Kimbell and Julier, 2012).
One of the underlying assumptions of this paper is that, by involving immigrants
in design processes, designers further social inclusion. Our intention here is not
to explain the benefits of including immigrants in design projects, but rather to
outline participatory design processes that foster collaboration. More specifically,
MarianaSalgado
HelenaSustar
AaltoUniversity
AaltoUniversity
MichailGalanakis HelsinkiUniversity
Designing
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we present two cases and describe the situations and the techniques we used in
relation to factors like emotions that are pertinent to the process itself. Lammers
(2005) suggests ways to be attentive and self-revelatory listeners in order to
create feelings of reciprocity and empathy. In the two cases we present, we
analyse our interactions with immigrants and propose ideas that could have a
positive influence on the collaboration between design researchers and
immigrant communities.
MIGRATION STORIES FROM EAST HELSINKI: OURCITY
Under the auspices of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, a group of
independent architects and designers undertook the OurCity project. The project
took place in Meri-Rastila, a multicultural suburb of East Helsinki. The aim of
OurCity was to democratise design processes and to empower local residents to
influence the redevelopment of their area (Salgado & Galanakis, 2014; Rizzo &
Galanakis, 2014). In order to develop a grassroots planning method as an
alternative to the top-down method used by the city planning office, a team
from the OurCity group conducted a series of workshops and other events in
which different immigrant communities were explicitly invited to take part. The
specific goal of this exploratory workshop presented here was to establish a
relationship with the area’s Kurdish community and to learn about their
relationship to the neighbourhood.
The workshop was conducted by Dina Fuad-Luke who is a community worker,
Michail Galanakis who is an architect and researcher, and Mariana Salgado who
is a design researcher. The languages used in the event were Kurdish, Finnish,
and English. The three-hour workshop was held at the Kurdish association in
Meri-Rastila on April 28, 2012. Participants in the workshop were fifteen women
of different ages who knew each other well; some were even related. Food was
an integral part of the workshop’s planning, and the women had prepared
traditional Kurdish food. After the introductions, we presented the idea of the
tree-of-life and offered personal examples. By introducing ourselves not only as
members of the OurCity project but also as individuals and by including
information about our family life and immigration backgrounds, we were able to
create a reciprocal understanding and a sense of trust.
The tree-of-life is a longstanding tool in narrative therapy and community work.
It is a way to enable vulnerable people to speak about their lives in order to feel
stronger. In the process, participants draw their own trees-of-life and speak of
their roots, skills and knowledge, as well as their hopes and dreams and the
people and places that have been important to their lives (Denborough, 2008).
Our literature research revealed no precedent for the use of the tree-of-life in
the field of design research.
In presenting the trees-of-life they had drawn (Fig. 1), participants told
evocative stories. Discussions grew serious at times despite small children
running about and music clips showing on the TV. There were affinities between
the testimonies. One seemed particularly representative: “In my home country,
I had to escape from the police. In Finland, you are not free even though you
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are not in prison. When I came here I got a new life and I smiled at everyone.
But Finnish people keep their distance and so I do not feel free. Real freedom for
me is in Kurdistan. Freedom is in the mind and in the feelings”.
After this first part of the workshop, we set the table together and enjoyed the
food our participants had prepared. We then proceeded with the second task
which made use of the illustrated cards from Dixit, a popular board game. All the
cards were placed on the table and each participant had to pick two. The first
card would describe the person’s current situation in Meri-Rastila or in Finland,
while the second would describe how the person sees herself in the future.
Participants attached their cards to blank pieces of paper and used colored
papers
to write
stories
connecting the cards to their lives (Fig.2).
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Fig. 1. Sukran Vahbiye and her tree-of-life.
Fig. 2. Presenting the stories and the cards.1
After the workshop, the three organisers conducted a session that revolved
around the drawings, the posters with the cards, and the stories told by
participants. We had no predefined hypothesis or fixed perspective on this
material and, as we went through it, we wrote down our own reactions on post-
it notes. Later, we placed the post-it notes in groups to create what Beyer and
Holtzblatt (1999) call “an affinity diagram”. We took notes based on these
clusters.
The techniques employed during and after our workshop were not the only
factors that encouraged the fluency of the conversation and the data gathered.
Even though we were three “outsiders” with video cameras and sound recorders,
we managed to create a comfortable atmosphere for participants. Indeed, the
process of creating trust had started before the workshop when Fuad-Luke
negotiated with Fatma Yasa, a Kurdish woman central to organising the group of
participants. Yasa acted as a facilitator during the workshop, translating from
and into Kurdish. Because participants knew each other from before, they felt
free to talk about their personal immigration stories, frustrations and feelings.
Furthermore, since none of the members of the OurCity group was originally
from Finland, it was easier to criticise the host society. Finally, and crucially, the
workshop was held on their turf; we were the guests. All of these factors created
a sense of joint creation and of reciprocity.
This workshop had a direct impact on OurCity’s design agenda. Participants
expressed their frustrations regarding social services, ranging from healthcare to
employment agencies. The workshop results were taken into account in the
design of a survey that the community worker on our team conducted
afterwards, a survey regarding immigrants’ access to social services (Fuad-Luke,
2012). After the workshop, participants collaborated on other activities
organised by the OurCity project, specifically a multicultural fashion show and
culture festival and the OurCity exhibition held at the project’s close at a cultural
centre in East Helsinki.
MIGRATION JOURNEYS TO HELSINKI: STANDING IN SOMEONE’S
SHOES
This case study focuses on mapping and visualising immigrants’ experiences
through service journeys by means of touch-point cards and emoticons. This
preliminary study was geared to collecting information on the state of public
services for immigrants’ relocation experiences in the host country, services like,
for example concerning obtaining a residence permit, registering at the local
police station, finding a job, and learning the language. The visualisation of the
service journeys included services that interviewees used before and after
coming to Finland and to Helsinki. The study revolved around four themes:
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experiences before moving to the country, experiences upon arrival, interaction
with services, and integration. The main focus was services after interviewees’
arrival in Finland and their degree of satisfaction with those services at the
different physical locations (e.g. registration office) and touchpoints (e.g.
websites, information materials) encountered.
Helena Sustar an immigrant researcher with a design background, conducted
the interviews—mostly at the university campus—in English. The study lasted
from January to April, 2014. In total, seven immigrants (two men and five
women) were interviewed. All of the interviewees, who ranged in age from
twenty-seven to forty-one, held university degrees. Their cultural backgrounds
and countries of origin varied, with interviewees from Russia, Slovenia, Japan,
Afghanistan, China, as well as two individuals of Finnish/Swedish descent who
were born outside Finland. The interviewees were recruited by means of the
researcher’s contacts and acquaintances.
Sustar asked each participant to think of a favourite object before the interview,
an object evocative of the person’s home country. Telling the story about the
object selected served as an icebreaker. In many cases, participants became
nostalgic. Participants were then asked to map out their service journeys by
placing touch-point cards and emoticons on a blank sheet of paper. A set of
touch-point cards (some of them blank) represented the image and name of a
given service touchpoint (e.g. police, bank, registration office). To describe their
experiences and express their feelings about these services, interviewees could
use a set of eight different emoticons—visual representations of different facial
expressions such as a smile or a frown (see Fig.3).
Sustar was interested in the interviewees’ experiences on a practical level, that
is, how they were using services related to their move and how they felt about
those services. Participants reproduced their journeys in no particular order on a
big sheet of paper. They marked the stages they went through on sheets of
paper with different themes (see Fig.3). While participants were creating their
service journeys, the researcher prompted with questions like “How did you feel
about that?” or “Where did you go next?” The discussion that ensued delved into
deeper issues surrounding identity, immigration and integration, questions like
“Who I am?”, “Where do I belong?”, “Where is my home?”.
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Sustar recorded the interviews and took notes during the process. The most
relevant parts of the recordings were transcribed. For this paper, we analyse
these service journeys with our research questions in mind.
The customer journey (Stickdorn & Schneider, 2010) is often used in service
design. In this case Sustar applied the customer journey model to a semi-
structured interview as a visualisation tool for the representation of immigrants’
journeys. The aim was to give rise to a discussion on issues related to migration.
Through this approach, participants opened themselves up on a subconscious
level, as each journey was a personal story. In reflecting on his identity, one
interviewee said “I am foreign everywhere. It is really hard to settle down
because as soon as people know me they don’t consider me part of their group”.
1. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
For this paper, we selected these two cases because their similarities allow us to
reflect on the practice of conducting participatory activities. In both cases, we
engaged participants in the act of making or building something. Rather than
present interviewees with a set of predetermined questions, we provided them
with certain materials in order to inspire conversation. This process is rooted in
the participatory design tradition of what Brand et al (2013, 155) call “making
together”: “[W]hen making we use our hands for externalising and embodying
thoughts and ideas in the form of (physical) artifacts. Such artifacts might
describe future objects or provide views on future ways of living”. The open-
ended techniques employed in this participatory process challenge design
researchers to be sensitive and to reflect. A degree of improvisation is required
as the researcher must be aware of the process underway. We agree with Light
and Akama (2012, 61) when they state that participatory methods cannot be
seen in isolation from the person or people engaged in them. They are
“[m]ethods and techniques [that] require embodiment”.
In both cases, we communicated by making. The process of enquiry was bound
to reflections on building together formulated during the process itself. The first
case entailed not only drawing the trees-of-life and selecting cards, but also
eating together. The second case revolved around an intimate discussion
through the process of building a customer journey, a visual representation of
participants’ experience immigrating to Finland. In both cases, the methods
were implemented at the beginning of the design process, that is, at the stage of
enquiry into what mattered to participants. Props, images, and open questions
triggered a wide range of emotional responses, which in turn, created a space of
intimacy that facilitated deep reflection.
2. DISCUSSION
Fig. 3: Service journey depicted by one of the interviewees.
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On the basis of these cases, it appears that our mindset, as researchers, and the
way the meetings were staged were more important to determining the
effectiveness of the design research than the tools and techniques per se.
Critical to the success of the projects were recruitment efforts, group dynamics,
facilitators’ attitudes, and the choice of venue for the meetings. In fact, many
decisions regarding the design of a participatory research evade strict
instructions on techniques and implementation, and define the research context
and therefore, the type of discussions that eventually do or don’t take place. In
both cases, participants were asked about their migration stories in settings that
were either familiar to them or neutral. As design researchers, we listened to
participants’ voices, opinions, and reflections on their migration experiences. The
techniques we used demonstrated to us that working with people from different
cultural backgrounds is not straightforward and that the atmosphere created
influences results, perhaps even more than the techniques themselves.
Huybrechts et al (2012, 31) suggest that the hybrid nature of mapping
workshops is due to diversity on two levels: 1) the composition of the groups
that participate in the workshop (homogeneous or heterogeneous) and 2) the
differences in viewpoints on the topics addressed. This hybridity must be
considered in organising design research workshops or interviews not only by
including people from different cultural background, but also by taking into
account other demographic parameters such as age, gender, educational level,
language skills, and social status. In both cases, we worked solely with
immigrants which, on the one hand, afforded greater intimacy and ease in
openly criticising the host society. On the other hand, we failed to foster
intercultural understanding. In both our cases, participants were rather
homogeneous. As a result, though the scope of our research and its results may
be limited, they do represent participants and, as such, merit consideration.
In both cases, strong emotions were triggered due to several factors: the
visualisations, the relationships within participants, the overall atmosphere, the
open-ended nature of the questions, and the content of the discussion, namely
migration stories. As design researchers, we are not trained in dealing with
emotionally charged situations during research or in analysing data that
considers emotional factors. While it is positive for people to reflect on their life
stories and to talk about their aspirations, it is, in our view, ethically
questionable to incite the resurfacing of painful events. Rigorous thinking about
ethical issues can make our research more reflexive and make us more
proactive regarding the emotions our research may stir up in both participants
and ourselves.
While the techniques and context of our fieldwork encouraged reflection on the
personal lives of participants, we are not sure how to utilise these reflections for
the benefit of the participants themselves. We do know, however, how to use
these reflections as input in the design process to the benefit of participants and
society as a whole. In Crossley’s (2003, 44) words, “developing deep personal
insight into people’s experiences and communicating emotionally charged design
visions broadens the role of the designer in the possibilities of developing a
product, service or brand”.
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It was exhausting and often overwhelming to be keenly aware of the emotions
of participants. Susan McDonald (2003) is a researcher who studied the legal
needs of abused immigrant women. She concluded that issues of empathy are
unavoidable in participatory research that empowers women insofar as the
boundaries between the researcher and the researched are blurred in the
process of building emotional and intellectual connections. Dealing with
emotions in participatory research is never straightforward. In researching
marginalised people, feelings can’t but run high. It is the researchers’
responsibility to be able to tackle emotional issues of inter-subjectivity,
empathy, self-disclosure, and vulnerability pertinent to all stakeholders,
including themselves. This holds true for participatory design research
involving—in this case—immigrants: emotions, even when they are
controversial, are unavoidable, and design researchers must look into other
fields to learn how to deal with and report on emotions, rather than “push them
under the carpet”.
Dindler and Iversen (2014) claim that personal and professional relationships
are crucial to design outcomes and that designers’ responsibilities include
awareness of this dynamic. This is the relational expertise of designers. As
designers, we often pay more attention to games, props and “the tangible
design objects” used to support participatory activities than to the factors
discussed here. This “designer” bias may be due to designers’ longstanding
concern with visual artifacts. In the context of research on immigrant
experience, Hynes (2013:13) asserts that “[i]nequalities of political rights,
economic positions, psychosocial positions, gender and other social and cultural
factors between the researcher and the researched all required attention”. In
these cases, methodological decisions are only one part of the process; another
consists of the contextual factors and the relationship between the researcher
and the researched.
Significantly, we didn’t offer monetary compensation to participants or
interviewees, though, in the case of the workshop, we did pay for the meal we
shared. This “non-compensation” policy —popular in Finnish academia— is in
keeping with the findings of anthropologists that providing payment may distort
the research process and generate bias among participants. Nonetheless, we
agree with Lammers (2005) that the issue of “giving” needs to be revisited,
especially in the cases of long-term relationships with immigrants in an ongoing
design or participatory research project. We were not comfortable not paying
participants for their time, their stories, and their commitment. Indeed, “non-
compensation” ultimately reproduces some of the social inequalities that our
projects attempt to eliminate.
The participatory design activities reviewed in this article support the prospect of
working with immigrants in the design of products and services. They are
particularly useful in interaction with immigrants because they are largely visual,
rather than language based. Non-language communication is key not only
because participants are communicating in a language not their own, but also
because of the emotional nature of the issue of immigration. Like Brand et al.
(2013), we believe that there is room for further methodological research on
“hard-to-reach” communities like immigrants. Such research would further
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understanding of the impact of cultural differences on participatory design
processes.
3. CONCLUSIONS
If we consider design a question of “problem-defining” rather than “problem
solving” (Kalantidou & Fry, 2014, 5), including immigrants in participatory
design processes is key to transformative actions capable of producing social
change. Therefore, how we frame our research encounters with immigrants
merits further analysis, as do issues of the generation and collection of field data
and research outcomes.
The methodological concerns discussed here are tied to sensitive ethical issues
that design researchers cannot avoid if they hope to design with immigrants. We
agree with Lee Crossley (2003, 42) when he states that “[...] little attention is
paid to the softer aspects of how we experience daily interaction of mood,
emotion and feelings”. Paying attention to issues of trust, empathy, personal
and professional relationships and ethics are key to enriching design visions. Our
research falls into the category of designing with “the other” and recognising
design as a social practice.
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