Open Participatory Design and Digital Tools for Inclusive & Resilient Development: Full-Day Workshop

Abstract

This workshop explores how open participatory design processes and digital tools can be effectively used for making local and urban development more inclusive and resilient. During a one-day event, participants will be invited to reflect on the impacts of global socio-ecological dynamics in local contexts. Specially, on how open participatory design processes, as Urban Living Labs, can encourage and support bottom-up participation and community agency, contributing to envisioning, designing and implementing more sustainable and resilient urban development processes. Further, the participants will be invited to discuss the role that digital tools can play when applied to inclusive development and capacity building in community-based contexts. The workshop's dynamic is based on co-creation methods, which will encourage participants to collaboratively write their ideas as structured abstracts, with the aim of turning them into publishable material for an international publication on Resilient Development and Digital Transformations.