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PAPERS: Design as Care: Values and Accountability in Practice Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Zoom Link Session Chair: Deger Ozkaramanli, Delft University of Technology Session Chair: Fatima-Zahra Abou Eddahab-Burke, Delft University of Technology | |
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The Who Cares? Approach: Materializing Values in Community-Based Participatory Research 1: The Health Design Lab at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada; 2: Department of Therapeutic Recreation, Douglas College, Canada Emerging from a three-year arts-based participatory design and research collaboration, the Who Cares? Approach is a framework for social change developed to understand how a community in rural British Columbia could cultivate a system of support for aging. Through iterative cycles of team retreats, including creative engagement and group interviews, project members developed a framework grounded in values of trust, presence, creativity, storytelling, relationality, and acknowledgement of the unknown. By transforming value statements into diagrams, installations, and participatory events, the project demonstrated how design artifacts can act as mediators of shared meaning and catalysts for ethical reflection. The resulting visual framework captures the project's values as nonlinear, non-hierarchical, and overlapping. The paper presents a model of participatory design that treats values as living, negotiable, and materially enacted, and illustrates how creative research methods can generate new insights into care within complex social systems. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1546
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