Case Studies (15k words)

urban co-design (5k)

a scenario that involves local government making urban planning decisions, with both technical and opinion-oriented design problems.

Designing a public park using co-design: https://github.com/mit-zardini-lab/urban-codesign

Surface specific design problems through participatory prioritization process (e.g. layout x cost joint poset)

Show how varying priorities lead to different outcomes of design process, and surface tradeoffs to users

data slots (5k)

extension of work in Senseable City Lab

show how user preferences on privacy and benefits can be integrated into a co-design problem

plausible fiction (5k)

a scenario that imagines a new, more grassroots design problem

decomposes it into technical and opinion-oriented design problems