Staging Collaborative Design and Innovation: An Action-Oriented Participatory Approach

This stimulating book proposes the concept of staging as a tool for planning and facilitating design and innovation activities. Drawing on a predominantly Scandinavian tradition of participatory design research and sociotechnical perspectives from actor-network theory, it discusses how staging can enable co-design, sustainable transitions and social and radical innovation.Expert researchers and practitioners present in-depth case studies on how staging can be used in practice, including co-design within the health sector, product development in industry, energy practices and urban development. Chapters also explore theoretical and conceptual developments, such as the possible spaces for staging, the role of material objects, travel and circulation of knowledge and the use of spatial and theatrical metaphors. Reflecting on how staging is practiced in a variety of settings, the book illustrates collaborative strategies that shape design and innovation processes. This book is critical reading for academics and students with an interest in public policy, knowledge management and organizational innovation. Providing actionable strategies based on participatory design, shaping technology and organizational theory, it will also be beneficial for design engineers, city planners and technology managers.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface xv PART I INTRODUCING STAGING 1 Staging collaborative design and innovation – an introduction 2 Jens Dorland and Dominique Vinck 2 Staging: from theory to action 20 Signe Pedersen, Jens Dorland and Christian Clausen PART II STAGING PARTICIPATORY CO-DESIGN WITH MULTIPLE ACTORS 3 Staging negotiation spaces as a means for co-designing an insulin service system in India 38 Signe Pedersen and Søsser Brodersen 4 Staging co-design within healthcare: lessons from practice 55 Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders 5 Circulating objects between frontstage and backstage: collectively identifying concerns and framing solution spaces 72 Signe Pedersen and Søsser Brodersen PART III STAGING CHANGES IN NETWORKS AND ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH DESIGN OF SPACES AND EVENTS 6 Staging the configuration of organizations for social innovation impacts 87 Jens Dorland 7 Staging participatory innovation as transition design 106 Christian Clausen and Wendy Gunn 8 Staging a circular economy journey 123 Rikke Dorothea Huulgaard, Eva Guldmann and Søren Kerndrup PART IV STAGING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 9 Staging strategic enactment of front-end innovation 137 Louise Brønnum and Christian Clausen 10 Staging referential alignment in industrial–academic collaboration 154 Charles Anthony Bates and Joakim Juhl 11 Staging with objects: translation from technology to product development 170 Charles Anthony Bates PART V STAGING EXPERIMENTATION AND LEARNING 12 Staging interventions in resource-intensive practices and related energy consumption levels 187 Charlotte Louise Jensen 13 Storytelling urban nature: situated intervention as environmental theatre 200 Ask Greve Johansen and Hanne Lindegaard 14 Staging urban design through experimentation 215 Birgitte Hoffmann and Peter Munthe-Kaas PART VI REFLECTIONS – HOW STAGING IS UNDERSTOOD AND USED 15 Taking the metaphor of theatre seriously: from staging a performance toward staging design and innovation 232 Dominique Vinck and Mylène Tanferri 16 Navigating with people and objects – strategic concerns 252 Yutaka Yoshinaka and Christian Clausen Index