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