Host: Japanese Society for the Science of Design
This document reports on a case study regarding participatory(designers - citizen) workshops for social issues problems. Planning and implementation took place from 2012 to 2019 and its results includes participants point of view and social impact . The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship [ designer's role ] - [final output ] in workshops processes.
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;The results show how multidisciplinary teams that incorporate designers as active members tend to have higher quality outputs than teams without designers. In addition, the former composition tends to have better organization of information, creativity, visualization, communication, leadership, getting higher-quality social issues proposals, as well as real implementation beyond prototype.