Transcript Bath Workshop Introdution part 2

From ‘social movement
informatics’ to ‘Designing for
civil society’
Why Designing?
• Design is about
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problem solving
new ideas
planning & predicting
surprises
every decision about future action is ‘design’
we are all designers
Why Civil Society?
• HCI 2003 – ‘Design for Society’
– but what kind of society?
– is ‘work’ & ‘task’ all there is to society?
– computer supported co-operative ‘work’?
Some of my questions
• How effective is web campaigning?
• How does ‘virtual’ activity interact with
‘real’ activism? (& does it matter?)
• How can the web be effectively folded into
political organisation (cost / benefit)?
• How might new developments such as egovernment impact on the work of NGOs?
What might we learn from HCI?
• How to think about ease of use in this
context?
– websites, brands & user engagement?
• how technology impacts organisations?
– strategies for design & development
– using mixed media in ‘collaborative work’?
– how can it all be done ‘on the cheap’?