5. Participatory Design

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Participatory Design Workshops were conducted with the students to design with them this new environment we were envisioning to stage the new Individual Development Plan Ritual designed based on the results from the ethnographic study conducted previously.

Listen to some short clips extracted from one of the workshops.

All these clips are real extracts from a participatory design workshop.

We didn't have much success with the use of props - different objects with a variety of sizes and shapes - to simulate the situations proposed by the students. Maybe it occured because of all the pressure of acting without looking childish in front of their colleagues since they are all teenagers. We did use the props but not  as much as expected.

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    The students were asked to imagine how this new 'evaluation space' could be. One of them describes how they could have more control of it.

    He suggests that he should be able to change the light and make it less claustrophobic, a clear and direct response to what they are experiencing today in the stressful parent/teacher/student meetings. He continues talking about the control of the discussion itself (be more active) when he could write something on a smart board that would go to a database and everybody could access these information at anytime in the future, like notes from a meeting discussion for instance.
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    Here the discussion continues with the students imagining how it would be to use the walls to display information and the idea of having continued access to their goals set in the beginning of the term or other information like daily schedules.