Week 1: Icebreakers, Introduction to the Course and Way of Working
Tronto, Joan. Who Cares?: How to Reshape a Democratic Politics. Cornell University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9781501702747.
Engster, Daniel. “A Public Ethics of Care for Policy Implementation.” American Journal of Political Science 64, no. 3 (2020): 621–633.
Week 2: Approaches to Design
Winner, Langdon. “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” Daedalus (1980): 121–136.
Johnson, Jim. “Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer.” Social Problems 35, no. 3 (1988): 298–310.
DiSalvo, Carl. “Design and Agonism.” In Adversarial Design. MIT Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780262528221.
Crabtree, Andrew, Mark Rouncefield, and Peter Tolmie. “Design Ethnography in a Nutshell.” In Doing Design Ethnography. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012. ISBN: 9781447127253.
Week 3: Participatory Design (PD) and Codesign
Cizek, Katerina, William Uricchio, et al. “Part 1: ‘We Are Here’: Starting Points in Co-Creation.” In Collective Wisdom. MIT Press, 2019.
Costanza-Chock, Sasha. “Design Practices: ‘Nothing about Us Without Us.’” In Design Justice (1st ed.). MIT Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780262043458.
Gordon, Eric, and Gabriel Mugar. Meaningful Inefficiencies: Civic Design in an Age of Digital Expediency. Oxford University Press, 2020. Introduction and Chapter 3. ISBN: 9780190870133.
Staton, Brooke, Julia Kramer, Pierce Gordon, and Lauren Valdez. “From the Technical to the Political: Democratizing Design Thinking.” contested_cities, Madrid (2016).
Week 4: PD in the Public Sector
Brandsen, Taco, Trui Steen, and Bram Verschuere. “Definitions of Coproduction and CoCreation.” In Co-Production and Co-Creation: Engaging Citizens in Public Services. Taylor & Francis, 2018. ISBN: 9781351792578.
Blomkamp, Emma. “The Promise of Co‐Design for Public Policy.” Australian Journal of Public Administration 77, no. 4 (2018): 729–743.
Gouillart, Francis, and Tina Hallett. “Co-Creation in Government.” Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2015.
Huybrechts, Liesbeth, Henric Benesch, and Jon Geib. “Institutioning: Participatory Design, Co-Design and the Public Realm.” CoDesign 13, no. 3 (2017): 148–159.
Week 5: Creativity and Scoping
Chou, Yung‐Yi Juliet, and Barbara Tversky. “Changing Perspective: Building Creative Mindsets.” Cognitive Science 44, no. 4 (2020): e12820.
Dunne, Anthony, and Fiona Raby. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. MIT Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780262019842.
Week 6: Value Alignment and Partnership Agreements
Friedman, Batya, and David G. Hendry. Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination. MIT Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780262039536.
Bardzell, Shaowen. “Feminist HCI: Taking Stock and Outlining an Agenda for Design.” In P__roceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1301–1310. 2010.
Racin, Liat and Eric Gordon. “Community Academic Research Partnerships in Digital Contexts: Opportunities, Limitations, and New Ways to Promote Mutual Benefit.” The Living Library, 2018.
Week 7: Working with Data
Weber, Nicholas M., Carole L. Pamer, and Bree Norlander. “Advancing Open Data: Aligning Education with Public Sector Data Challenges.” Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 55, no. 1 (2018): 927–928.
D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren F. Klein. Data Feminism. MIT Press, 2020. Introduction and Chapter 1. ISBN: 9780262044004.
Week 8: Project Proposal
No assigned readings
Week 9: Evaluation
Yates, Brian, and Mita Marra. “Introduction: Social Return on Investment (SROI).” Evaluation and Program Planning 64 (2017): 95–97.
“Qualitative Research Practice Guide.” The Code for America, 2020.
Drain, Andrew, and Elizabeth B-N. Sanders. “A Collaboration System Model for Planning and Evaluating Participatory Design Projects.” International Journal of Design 13, no. 3 (2019): 39–52.
Week 10: Making
Snyder, Carolyn. Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces. Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. Introduction and Chapter 4. ISBN: 9780080513508.
Week 11: User Testing
O’Neil, Daniel, and the Smart Chicago Collaborative. Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech. The Smart Chicago Collaborative, 2019. ISBN: 9781670767851.
