Open Design Spaces workshop

Monday 2nd of March, Liesbeth, Priscilla & Tanguy joined a workshop on Open Design Spaces supporting User Innovation in Siegen, Germany. This workshop was part of an international symposium on End User Development. The workshop contained an invited talk by Pelle Ehn, Malmo University and the presentation of five approved papers.

Pelle Ehn introduced the concept of 'Thinging' and gave an overview of 'a Thing formerly known as Participatory Design' and its changing in relation to Web 2.0. Our paper "Living Spaces: A participatory design process model drawing on the use of boundary objects" was presented by Liesbeth. The paper discusses the European project Living Spaces and how this participatory design process uses the concepts of boundary objects, open spaces and agile- and metadesign.

After lunch break, Gunnar Stevens presented his view "On the Social Construction of Open Innovation". Stevens illustrated examples of Open Design Spaces (ODS) and researched how to organising the opennes for practicing Open Innovation in relation to SME's.
Jorg Niesenhaus discussed "Challenges and Potentials of User Involvement in the Process of Creating Games". He gave an overview of the history of user involvement in the area of digital games and described the challenges and potentials of the participation and motivation of users.
Unfortunately, the authors of a fourth paper couldn't join the workshop. The last presentation described a case example of co-creating through user feedback in an online Living Lab by Asbjørn Følstad.