A bunch of us are learning about how to convene and facilitate Participatory Action Research. This is an unorganized reading list of the best resources, references, etc we can find to school up on frameworks and approaches.
ParticipatoryEcosystem
ParticipatoryEcosystem : Public website for ParticipatoryEcosystem.com
Activist Handbook | Campaigning guides for activists ✊
We write guides for activists. Learn how to become a social activist, plan a political campaign strategy, and start a grassroots movement.
Why Do We Call It Participatory Science? | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Introduction to Movement Ecology
Facilitation Techniques and Workshop Activities | Library
Hundreds of group facilitation activities for workshops, meetings and training sessions. Find the best team building activities, energisers, process facilitation and leadership development...
Call for Participation: AT Protocol Ecosystem Action Research - Ecosystem Action
A pilot program to facilitate cooperative, research-led innovation in the AT Protocol ecosystem.
Call for Participation: AT Protocol Ecosystem Action Research - Ecosystem Action
A pilot program to facilitate cooperative, research-led innovation in the AT Protocol ecosystem.
Conversations for Action | and Collected Essays
Conversations For Action and Collected Essays is a compilation of the seminal works by Dr. Fernando Flores during his tenure as CEO and President of Logonet Inc., an educational and coaching organization, and Business Design Associates, the pioneer management consulting firm in implementing large scale innovation processes and programs. The book is a response to the requests from many former students and clients over the years for the “papers” with Flores’ distinct framework for building teams, leaders, and organizations.
Practical Guide to Grounded Theory Research — Delve
Learn how to do grounded theory, a popular qualitative research methodology where data collection and analysis happen together in cycles.
An introduction to radical participatory design: decolonising participatory design processes
Outside of community-led design projects, most participatory design processes initiated by a company or organisation maintain or even strengthen power imbalances between the design organisation and the community on whose purported behalf they are designing, further increasing the absencing experience. Radical participatory design (RPD) is a radically relational answer to the coloniality inherent in participatory design where the community members’ disappointment is greater due to the greater expectations and presencing potential of a ‘participatory design’ process. We introduce the term RPD to show how research and design processes can be truly participatory to the root or core. Instead of treating participatory design as a method, a way of conducting a method, or a methodology, we introduce RPD as a meta-methodology, a way of doing any methodology. We explicitly describe what participation means and compare and contrast design processes based on the amount of participation, creating a typology of participation. We introduce ‘designer as community member’, ‘community member as designer,’ and ‘community member as facilitator’ models and provide characteristics for the meta-methodology of RPD.
An introduction to radical participatory design: decolonising participatory design processes
Outside of community-led design projects, most participatory design processes initiated by a company or organisation maintain or even strengthen power imbalances between the design organisation and the community on whose purported behalf they are designing, further increasing the absencing experience. Radical participatory design (RPD) is a radically relational answer to the coloniality inherent in participatory design where the community members’ disappointment is greater due to the greater expectations and presencing potential of a ‘participatory design’ process. We introduce the term RPD to show how research and design processes can be truly participatory to the root or core. Instead of treating participatory design as a method, a way of conducting a method, or a methodology, we introduce RPD as a meta-methodology, a way of doing any methodology. We explicitly describe what participation means and compare and contrast design processes based on the amount of participation, creating a typology of participation. We introduce ‘designer as community member’, ‘community member as designer,’ and ‘community member as facilitator’ models and provide characteristics for the meta-methodology of RPD.
Citizen Participation (@oliverescobar.bsky.social)
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
Citizen Participation (@oliverescobar.bsky.social)
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
ohh I love this direction of activity-specific views! There could also be a "research" view for activity from @margin.at @semble.so etc - would be cool to think how to get the research related bsky activity, maybe from Lea @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social
Cool example of participatory research from The Long Haul. Different from many citizen science projects where scientists bring the questions, in the Appalachian land study people chose the question, learned the method, did the work, and found answers to problems that mattered to their community
Ronen Tamari
Weekend reading: "Long Haul" by Myles Horton, have a feeling it's going to be a real banger. (on the Highlander Folk School for social change) highlandercenter.org/product/the-long-haul-an-auto…
live data vis stuff, participatory performance/interaction
pauline on Twitter / X
Amelia Wattenberger 🪷 on Twitter / X
Everything I Love | Chia Amisola
Everest Pipkin
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