Abstract
In the debate about PD and its methods a strong link between process and result is assumed: a participatory process is expected to lead to a participatory result. We explore this assumption, looking into the kinds of decisions in both projects and into what the participants participated in and how. We think of a participatory result as one that increases users’ ‘power to’. Looking closer into what participants participated in we come to the conclusion that within one and the same project there may be different depths of participation, depending on the role and particular expertise of participants but also on the types of issues.
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Bratteteig, T., Wagner, I. (2014). Participation. In: Disentangling Participation. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06163-4_7
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