The political and social conflicts in participatory design thinking Busch, Otto von 1975- creator author. Palmås, Karl author. text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2023 2023 monographic eng 1 online resource (135 pages) : illustrations "Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world. Similarly, codesign tends to be described as a democratic mode of creativity that is somehow beyond reproach. But is change a virtue in itself, and do participatory practices always produce socially beneficial outcomes? Such questions are becoming more pressing as codesign has emerged as a dominant practice in planning and urban design, while also informing corporate management and public administration. In this book, Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås suggest that designers tend to over-emphasise the place of ideals in design, leaving them ill-equipped to deal with a social world of power-wielding and zero-sum games. Seeking to re-orient the concerns of the Scandinavian tradition of participatory design, they suggest that co-design processes are rife with betrayals, decay and corruption, and that designerly empathy has morphed into a new form of cunning statecraft. In putting forward Realdesign as an alternative conception of design practice, von Busch and Palmås ask: What hard lessons about the social must today's designers learn from realists like Machiavelli?"-- Introduction : the problems of participatory design -- The realist challenge : power and possibilities -- Betrayal : post-political participation -- Corruption : design and decay -- Cunning : mêtis and designerly statecraft -- Hypocrisy : of virtue and vice -- Closing propositions : after empathy, realdesign. Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås. Includes bibliographical references and index. Otto von Busch is Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York. Karl Palms̄ is Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. Architecture and society City planning Social aspects Design Social aspects Industrial design Social aspects ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning NA2543.S6 B865 2023 Busch, Otto von, 1975- New York : Routledge, 2023 (DLC) 2022041118 9781003281443 1003281443 9781000838046 1000838048 100083803X 9781000838039 2022041119 9781003281443 Taylor & Francis https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3503198 https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3503198 EBZ 220907 20251029164104.0 on1345279358 eng