Design researchers develop and apply design knowledge for products, services, and interventions by engaging in digital social research. Acknowledging that “technical solutions cannot address non-technical, especially socio-political problems, and often replicate the very issues they aim to resolve,” this chapter offers an action-oriented critique of digital positivism and technosolutionism as a means to address complex societal challenges.

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Whose Research Agenda: Moving Beyond Technosolutionism to Participatory Design

  • Babitha George,
  • Romit Raj

摘要

Design researchers develop and apply design knowledge for products, services, and interventions by engaging in digital social research. Acknowledging that “technical solutions cannot address non-technical, especially socio-political problems, and often replicate the very issues they aim to resolve,” this chapter offers an action-oriented critique of digital positivism and technosolutionism as a means to address complex societal challenges.