Abstract
The thinking and practice of participatory design in processes of urban development and informal settlement upgrading has been associated with a variety of agendas and purposes. Sometimes it has been used as a mechanism of “inclusion” for a predefined vision and ideal of the city, and at other times it has been used as a means to expand the “collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization”. Similar discussions have taken place in debates around the links between democracy and design, in which design has sometimes been approached as a means of improving or enabling structures of governance and at other times of opening up new spaces for contestation and trajectories for social change.
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