| University | University of Gothenburg |
| Department | School of design and crafts |
| Division | Enheten för design |
| Keywords | participatory design, human rights, sustainability, social inclusion, child culture design, public space |
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| Website University of Gothenburg, in Swedish www.gu.se/om-universitetet/hitta-person/anneliesvaneycken2 |
| Website University of Gothenburg, in English www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/anneliesvaneycken2 |
| Networks/thematic areas | Global perspectives with focus on low and middle income countries, Sustanable Urban Development |
| SDG:s | 10. Reduced inequalities, 11. Sustainable cities and communities |
| Regions | Europe and Central Asia |
| Country | Sweden, Sverige, Belgium, Belgien |
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| Reasearch / work |
| My main research interest lies in investigating the role of design in the further development of democracy, social inclusion, and sustainability. My research approach combines Research through Design and Design Anthropology and connects to political ambition, human rights, and sustainability.
I am involved in ongoing research with colleagues in MFA Child Culture Design on children’s involvement in design processes by critically analysing and improving methodologies such as co-design and participatory design. We here focus on the role of play, affordance, and openness.
My Ph.D. thesis: Designing ‘for’ and ‘with’ ambiguity: actualising democratic processes in participatory design practices with children (available in GUPEA) holds an explanation of the Ambiguity-Approach I have developed for creating more free, equal, and just participatory design processes when children and adult designer collaborate on a common project.
I was a 2014-2017 Research Fellow in the EU Marie Curie project TRADERS where I (as Office for Public Play) explored free play as a participatory design approach when working with children on their participation in public space issues. |