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The term “community-based participatory design” (CBPD) recently emerged as a distinctive space in the Participatory Design tradition (DiSalvo, Clement & Pipek, 2013; LeDantec, 2016). This move marks a shift from treating the process of design primarily as a product development method, to one that builds social and technical capacities – or infrastructures – of individuals and communities (Björgvinsson, Ehn, & Hillgren 2010; Karasti 2014; LeDantec 2016). This paper describes participant gains from a design workshop conducted as part of a research collaboration involving a university-based research center, and four NGOs, the participatory design workshop aimed to: (1) build the capacities of young people; (2) guide young people in the creation of novel and locally relevant gender and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) solutions; and, (3) bring voices of young people into research and programmatic questions around gender and SRH in the public health domain. The workshop was conducted with 31 young people aged 15-25, over 2.5 weeks, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. The evaluation demonstrates that the workshop resulted in exposure to working in mixed-gender teams, developing problem-solving skills, and increasing SRH awareness and knowledge. The workshop produced six low-fidelity prototypes, five of which were subsequently refined and piloted by three Lucknow NGOs.

Creator

• Geppert, Amanda
• Yan, Shirley
• Gilliam, Melissa
• Bansal, Suchi

License

• Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Subject

• Design

Submitter

Lora Alberto

College

• Design, Architecture, Art and Planning

Department

• Graduate Studies and Research

Date Created

• 2017-10-31

Publisher

• University of Cincinnati

Language

• English

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Identifier: doi:10.7945/C2DX1S
Link: https://doi.org/10.7945/C2DX1S

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