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Designing Together With The World Café: Inviting Community Ideas For An Idea Zone In A Science Center, William Travis Thompson
Designing Together With The World Café: Inviting Community Ideas For An Idea Zone In A Science Center, William Travis Thompson
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation brings attention to the communication processes taking place during design of an Idea Zone at a science center. It focuses on the conceptual phase of design, during which designers seek to integrate the ideas and needs of stakeholders into design processes through such frameworks as Participatory Design (PD). In bringing a focus on communication process to conceptual design frameworks such as PD, I explore the assumed roles behind participatory design processes and the contexts created through those processes during actual design work. As these Idea Zone design efforts took place in a museum and also within the context …