What is it about?
Pre-schoolers can participate in design processes that embrace unpredictable play behaviour with design thinking and provide potential ideas to approach the sustainable goal of 'saving water'. To them, it is self-reliant construction play, yet this research shows that it strengthens their self-awareness, well-being, courage and feeling part of a community while engaging in designerly activities.
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Why is it important?
Unique contribution is to embrace pre-schooler participants as they are and still obtain results that carry solution potential for designers, practitioners and learners.
Perspectives
Another overall perspective on this article is that it contributes to strengthening researchers to reflect consciously on how participants experience their research design and for what reasons- the 'why' that composes their research design. As the determination of the 'why' will argue for opportunities and limitations of each research design - not just for participants but also for results obtained from that research. The participant experience canvas is a tool that can be applied before, during and after each research design in order to enhance reflexivity and critical evaluation. This might strengthen to further the field of design research into new directions of awareness.
Antonia Clasina Södergren
Design School Kolding
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This page is a summary of: Pre-schoolers’ Stewardship – Embracing Higgledy-piggledy Behaviours through Participatory Plaything, June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3501712.3529737.
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