The purpose of this paper is to investigate and discuss the practice of involving children in design processes, focusing on what the benefits are and which practical problems that can occur. By discussing previous research and conducting three interviews with people experienced in the field of designing together with children this paper aims to answer the question: When children participate in design processes what are the benefits, risks, and challenges? The paper concludes that many of the problems that can appear when designing with children are related to power dynamics between children and adults or to the age of the children. These two themes are the focus of the essays result and in addition to presenting the challenges connected to the themes, the paper will also discuss how these problems can be prevented and solved. The conclusion of the paper is that it is important to involve children when designing with children as a target audience because they are experts in being children today which an adult designer is not. The paper also concludes that it is important for designers and researchers to consider and respectfully work with the ethical challenges of involving children in design processes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-60667 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Wahlgren, Matilda |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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