Design Networks: A Social Network Analysis of a Participatory Design Process

The paper aims to describe the collaborative relationships that are woven into a design process open to a plurality of actors from various disciplinary, cultural and organisational backgrounds who play various roles. To this end, a Social Network Analysis (SNA) has been conducted on a par...

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Main Authors: Carlo Franzato, Marcia Regina Diehl
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Language:English
Published: Bologna University press 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://www.diid.it/diid/index.php/diid/article/view/franzato-diehl
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description The paper aims to describe the collaborative relationships that are woven into a design process open to a plurality of actors from various disciplinary, cultural and organisational backgrounds who play various roles. To this end, a Social Network Analysis (SNA) has been conducted on a participatory design process in a Brazilian school community, intended to develop a hyperlocal social network for sharing knowledge among the community and the inhabitants of the region. The analysis of the design process explores the visualisation potential of sociograms. As a result, the paper elaborates on the concept of ‘design networks’, a form of organisation that allows many codesign processes and especially participatory ones. It also identifies three processes that are articulated in these networks, namely, the processes of ‘designing’, ‘infrastructuring’ and ‘seeding’.
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