How do we account for our implicit assumptions and roles embedded in a social design project?

This article – co-authored together with our good colleague Mette Gislev Kjærsgaard – links to our research project ‘Changing Perspectives’ – a social design project aimed at designing games to support family consultants in working with incarcerated fathers. The article explores how design games might serve as a form of design anthropological fieldwork that can help us discover and challenge implicit assumptions and roles embedded in a social design project.

See: Kjaersgaard, M. G., Knutz, E., & Markussen, T. (2021). Design games as fieldwork: Re-visiting design games from a design anthropological perspective. Design Studies, 73, 100994

Game prototype “Dads Round”(2019) – a playful tool designed for family consultants