This chapter examines the current landscape of participatory budgets in Germany, which currently includes just under 100 local authorities that are actively involved in participatory budgeting (PB). Based on the history of PB in Germany, it shows how German participatory budgets typically pursue the objective of making local government more responsive, which is the reason why most participatory...

This book introduces Participatory Design to researchers and students in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI). Grounded four strong commitments, the discusses why how is i

The Curating Community Workshop developed out of an interest in urban regeneration, cultural policy and participatory art. It drew on the extensive experience in developing, delivering and evaluating community interventions that span participatory arts. The Workshop brought together artists, commissioners, researchers, educationalists and practitioners from community development and from a rang...

Participatory ergonomics is an intervention strategy acting on physical load exposures occurring in occupational settings, scarcely known in Spain but with a number of experiences and evidences coming from other countries. There are several reasons justifying the interest of this approach. First, participatory ergonomics focuses on one of the categories of occupational exposures with the larges...

This paper intends to explore co-design processes in the field of cultural heritage, based on an examination scientific literature and a comparative analysis case studies. These cases, which involve different interlocutors, contexts application, tools output, are expressed not only discursive manner, but also represented diagrams visual syntheses processes. The was conducted basis shared parame...

In today’s network society policy analysis is more and more implemented by means of participatory approaches and methods. This is induced by the fact that power and knowledge are widely distributed among various groups of network actors (stakeholders). The network characteristics of our (western) societies (Castells, 1996) more or less force us to look at policy analysis from a more relativist ...

Introduction Participatory approaches are often recommended to improve the efficiency and sustainability of international development programs or to contribute to local capacity development and empowerment (World Bank 1996; Chambers 2010). Participatory approaches have a long history in agricultural research and development (R&D), beginning with croppingand farmingsystems research in the 1970s ...

The call for community-based participatory research approaches to address cancer health disparities is increasing as concern grows for the limited effectiveness of existing public health practice and research in communities that experience a disparate burden of disease. A national study of participatory research projects, Research for Improved Health, funded by the National Institutes of Health...