Inside the belly of the beast: The challenges and successes of a reformist participatory agenda

Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Participatory Design: Expanding Boundaries in Design, PDC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 134-143

  Balka, Ellen ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Challenges; Participatory Design; Politics; Public Sector; Terms Of Engagement

Indexed keywords

CHALLENGES; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; POLITICS; PUBLIC SECTOR; TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT;

DESIGN;

EID: 84958543448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1147261.1147281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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