Suffering Beyond Negotiation: Towards a Biographic Perspective on Cooperative Design for Therapy [chapter]

Olav W. Bertelsen
2014 COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France)  
In this paper we argue that design in therapeutic domains (in a broad sense) depends on an understanding of the background for the engagement of the various users involved. It is specifically argued that an understanding of the life transforming process, or trajectory as opposed to design process and rational process of therapy has to be understood and that a possible cornerstone in such an understanding is a biographic concept inspired by Strauss' concepts of suffering. "Suffering" is
more » ... as a frame for enabling a subjective perspective to have a voice in design. That is to put a perspective center stage that is not based in the negotiation between rationalities. The paper draws examples from design based research projects over the last 5 years.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06498-7_10 dblp:conf/coop/Bertelsen14 fatcat:rsmzh5ginre7bdvaalyzciaghm