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Imaginative labour and relationships of care : co-designing prototypes with vulnerable communities

As lead author of this paper I contributed substantial empirical research and theoretical arguments (55%) with Dr. Ellis (25%). Dr. Ferrario’s contribution was in relation to forecasting (5%), Dr. McNally in relation to the Protee method (5%), with Dr. Dillon as project lead (5%) and Dr Simm & Prof. Whittle involved in project development (5%).

The paper has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication, and is pre-published online. This publication was produced during ‘Catalyst’, a £1.9million EPSRC project, on which I was a Research Associate and am now a Co-Investigator. This multi-disciplinary citizen-led innovation project for social change includes Principle Investigator Prof. Jon Whittle, and Co-Investigators Prof. Lucy Suchman, Prof. Gordon Blair, Prof. Robert Fildes, Prof. Stefanos Mouzas, Prof. Awais Rashid, Prof. Gerd Kortuem, Dr Monika Buscher, Dr Paul Coulton, Dr Leon Cruickshank, Dr Rebecca Ellis, Dr Ruth McNally, Dr Matthew Rowe and Dr Corina Sas,

The paper uses the case of our citizen-led digital design and innovation project ‘Patchworks’ and explores the ethical dimensions of using fictions in design processes with vulnerable adults as co-designers.

This work forms part of my ongoing work at the intersection of participatory art, co-design and social science research. The themes of the paper were also investigated in the artwork I/O Inside Out, exhibited at The Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, 2013, and the paper ‘Creative practice as mobile method’, presented at ‘Differential Mobilities’ the Joint International conference of the Pan-American Mobilities network and the Cosmobilities Network, Montreal (2013).

I have previously developed these themes of co-design in art and design practice in McHardy, J., Wolf Olsen, J., Southern, J., and Shove, E. 2010, Makeshift users. Design Research: Synergies from interdisciplinary perspectives, eds Simonsen, J., Ole Baerenholdt, J., Büscher, M., and Damm Scheuer, J. Abingdon: Routledge.