Prescott, T. orcid.org/0000-0003-4927-5390, Robillard, J.M. and Murray, S. (2025) Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design. Medical Humanities, 50. pp. 715-716. ISSN 1468-215X
Abstract
Participatory design places a strong emphasis on human agency, user perspectives and democratic ideals of inclusivity and empowerment, and is therefore often associated with humanist principles and values. In contrast, critical posthumanism questions key humanist assumptions about the centred and singular nature of the ‘human condition’. Instead, posthumanism points to the evolving and diverse lived experiences of people and how these are transformed by (and are transforming of) culture, environment and technology. In this commentary, we explore how participatory design could benefit from a posthumanist perspective that more explicitly acknowledges the entangled and interconnected nature of our technologised lives.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Community-Based Participatory Research; Digital Technology; Medical humanities; Philosophy; Humans; Humanism; Empowerment; Culture; Technology |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2025 12:00 |
Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2025 12:00 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013078 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | BMJ |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1136/medhum-2024-013078 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:222583 |