Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to bring together the fields of participatory design, design for all, accessible music, tangible interaction and musicking to propose musicking for all, where participants can take part on their own terms, with their own intentions, initiatives and interpretations. The goal is to promote well-being and health among the participants. Design/methodology/appr...

As part of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in Biscay, Basque Country, we described scenarios for Biscay through 2050 in an integrated and participatory way by downscaling the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) global scenarios, analyzed how ecosystem services and human well-being might change in a range of plausible futures, identified management strategies for the territory through a bac...

Community psychologists have long worked with community-based human service organizations to build participatory processes. These efforts largely aim at building participatory practices within the current individual-wellness paradigm of human services. To address collective wellness, human service organizations need to challenge their current paradigm, attend to the social justice needs of comm...

This thesis aims at studying the use of a computational construction kit for human body movement which is grounded in the constructionist learning approach. Therefore, a construction kit including a learning environment is developed iteratively in a participatory design process with young people. Processes, that young people undergo while using this construction kit are studied and research is ...

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Participatory, co-design and creativity workshops can lead to more useful, usable and innovative systems design. However, evaluating the effectiveness of the creativity support provided by different technologies and workshop techniques is challenging. This is especially so when evaluation takes place during the workshop and maintaining a creative atmosphere is important. In this paper we briefl...

Developing models that effectively model human behavior and activities in social phenomena requires a tight collaboration between designers, experts and end-users. This paper presents an approach based on participatory design to find the most effective ways to succeed in this endeavor. Building up from a case study in emergency management, we identify three key design activities that have prove...