Moving Beyond Surveys to Unlock Your Stakeholders’ Identities/1

Participatory design centers stakeholders’ lived experiences during the co-creation of new products, services, systems, and policies. Affording stakeholders ways to share their personal identities can unlock a qualitative depth to participant contribution and more robust co-designed outcomes.

The aims of this two-part, highly interactive workshop are to inform future participatory design efforts as we: (1) introduce the feminist concepts of intersectionality, microaggression, and microaffirmation as they relate to personal identity and lived experiences; (2) engage in a novel multimedia journaling exercise centering personal identity within lived experience; then (3) challenge participants to synthesize their first-hand experiences; all while (4) participants enjoy workshop activities which ask them to depart physical/online conference venues and explore their surroundings during a reflexive “affirmation excursion.”