Social creativity: turning barriers into opportunities for collaborative design

Design is a ubiquitous activity. The complexity of design problems requires communities rather than individuals to address, frame, and solve them. These design communities have to cope with the following barriers: (1) spatial (across distance), (2) temporal (across time), (3) conceptual (across different communities of practice, and (4) technological (between persons and artifacts). Over the last decade, we have addressed these barriers and have tried to create sociotechnical environments to turn them into opportunities for enhancing the social creativity of design communities. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.3 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Group and Organization Interfaces – computer supported cooperative work, organizational design, theory and models. General Terms Design, Human Factors. Keywords Design, collaborative design, spatial distance, temporal distance, social distance, technological distance, turning barriers into opportunities, social creativity, art...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: PDC
• Authors: Gerhard Fischer
• Keywords: Design Communities, PDC 2004, Problems Requires Communities, Social Creativity, Theoretical Computer Science