Giacomo Poderi

This article investigates teachers' lived experiences of an online professional development (OPD) course in Denmark – that is, Teknosofikum – through a hermeneutic phenomenological perspective, and it relies on the interpretive analysis of 15 semi‐structured interviews. The article's contribution focuses on the theme of ‘time’ and highlights it as...

As the development of new digital technologies is increasingly mobilised as a solution to global crises, such as in healthcare and the climate crisis, design is becoming an ever more influential actor in the legislation of answers to questions of ‘how to care’. This chapter explores the relationship between participatory design (PD) activities and...

Following recent developments in commons studies centred on commoning as a practice, this work takes special interest in commoners' lived experiences, desires, expectations, and struggles as they relate to sustaining a commitment to such practices over time. The article adopts a micropractice perspective focused on commoners' privileged vantage poi...

Approaching the commons as a practice, as commoning, brings to the fore the concrete, historically, socially, and culturally situated mobilization of commoners around the resources they rely on or hold dear. However, the extent to which commoners are known, addressed, or even framed in relation to their engagement with and commitment to commoning s...

This work finds its place within Participatory Design (PD) as a specific approach to co-design that focuses on the politics of technological innovation and socio-technical transformations. In particular, the article contributes to the repositioning of co-design in the age of platform capitalism by engaging with the question: how can participatory d...

In traditional engineering, technologies are viewed as the core of the engineering design, in a physical world with a large number of diverse technological artefacts. The real world, however, also includes a huge number of social components—people, communities, institutions, regulations and everything that exists in the human mind—that have shaped...

In this article, we lever on matters of concern (MoC) as a way to reflect on the articulation of collaborative design processes. We do this by focusing on an international project for the development of an ICT platform for energy management at the household and housing cooperative levels. We analyse retrospectively how the project development proce...

This exploratory paper examines the relationship between Participatory Design (PD) and Sustainability as it emerges from the Participatory Design Conference (PDC). The reinvigorated political agenda of PD, together with the enlargements of its application domains and scopes of interest, calls for reinvigorating the early concerns of the field for l...

As a part of the H2020 SHAPE ENERGY Research Design Challenge, this chapter aims to i) develop a framework that combines the behavioral economic approach with the sociological one to identify an interdisciplinary intervention that engages consumers in energy transition, ii) provide the methodological basis to quantify its efficacy, and iii) offer h...

Participatory Design has recently seen growing interest in developing critical forms of reflexivity able to disentangle the complexity of participatory ensembles. This article makes a methodological contribution to this endeavour. Drawing on socio-cognitive analyses of collaborative design, it proposes the frame of ‘interaction spaces’ as a scaffol...

The ethical and sustainable production and consumption of energy are becoming increasingly important with the ongoing transformation and decentralization of the energy system. For other kinds of goods and commodities ethical consumption have direct implications for, and the participation of, informed citizens. Due to its intangibility, energy lacks...

By tapping into the ongoing process of infrastructuring sensors, trackers, data and monitoring devices that underlies the materialization of imaginaries of a 'smart' society, this full-day workshop promotes a critical discussion on the assumptions and implications of such process. With the intention to go beyond the taken for granted desirability a...

This exploratory paper reflects on the activities of an European project that explores novel forms of citizens engagement with the twofold objective of exploring alternative governance approaches to renewable energy sources and of reducing and optimizing energy consumption. This exploratory vision is inquired through the use of ICTs tools in connec...

Thanks to renewable energies the decentralized energy system model is becoming more relevant in the production and distribution of energy. The scenario is important in order to achieve a successful energy transition. This paper presents a reflection on the ongoing experience of infrastructuring a socio- technical system in which local communities c...

Derived from the Latin cum (with) and laborare (to work), collaboration means the act of working alongside someone to achieve something. Framed in contemporary society such a definition emphasises the power of collaboration for achieving purposes that would be challenging for a person alone. However, the collaboration is far from being spontaneous...

This paper discusses infrastructuring as an informal experience of Participatory Design in the context of museums. The authors describe “participation” as an embedded and stable parameter for looking at museums sustainability. Their standpoint is that museums develop and encourage knowledge through participative and interrelated relationships among...

The goal of this full-day workshop is to create a place where people can share experiences, plans, and questions about teaching Participatory Design (PD). We aim to create a context for all of us to talk about how we design and set up courses, what challenges we face and how we solve them. The workshop is for people who are interested in the way pe...

By drawing on the experience of CIVIS, a recently EU/FP7 funded project, the aim of this paper is to explore how community dynamics can foster new forms of social innovation and knowledge sharing in the domain of renewable energies. Recent works have been mainly studying how community dynamics could improve performance in business and social settin...

The challenges of global warming, together with developments in renewable energy technologies and ICT are driving a radical change in the way energy is produced, transmitted and used: we are entering the paradigm of smart grids that is characterized by a fundamental shift from a central and one-way energy flow to a distributed and bidirectional one...

Video game modding is a form of fan productivity in contemporary participatory culture. We see modding as an important way in which modders experience and conceptualize their work. By focusing on modding in a free and open source software video game, we analyze the practice of modding and the way it changes modders' relationship with their object o...

The aim of this paper is to provide insights on how the infrastructure of a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project is used by the participants while they bring forward their own contributions. Specific case used for this paper is a mature development project of a video game. Several discussions were collected from the development board of the...

By taking as departing point the convergence of emerging technologies and their related production practices, this work reflects on design and participa-tory processes. This contribution tries to highlight how these processes changed from the traditional Information and Software Systems (ISS) context to the emerging one, where technologies are main...

Collaboratively written by thousands of people, Wikipedia produces entries which are consistent with criteria agreed by Wikipedians and of high quality. This article focuses on Wikipedia's Featured Articles and shows that not every contribution can be considered as being of equal quality. Two groups of articles are analysed by focusing on the edits...