Participatory design in the smart village: Co-design of a public display in a rural village shop

Abstract

This work describes the co-design process of a public display for a village shop. We report and reflect different modes of participation in idea generation, co-design and decision taking with two different groups, the people running the village shop as well as a group of older citizens who became long-term participants to the overall research project. We scrutinize different aspects as regards to differing modes and degrees of participation within long-term and participatory co-design with multiple stakeholders.