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Social imaginaries as a lens on co-designing environmental sustainability

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Social imaginaries are a way of envisioning how people maintain society, and of understanding what is valued within that society. In this project, we worked with children on environmentally sustainable solutions for the future using co-design, a common methodology in child-computer interaction. We apply a social imaginary lens to five co-design case studies, from different geographic regions around the world, to describe and analyze variations in design practices as well as in design artifacts, and examine the ways in which children demonstrated a shared understanding of a pro-social world. The primary contribution of this paper is an illustration of the use of social imaginaries for interpreting and organising co-design around environmental sustainability.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100759
Authors: Jerry Fails, Aurora Constantin, Eva Eriksson, Janet Read, Gavin Sim, Marie Boden, Jessica Korte, Sanjana Bhatnagar, Judith Good
Institutions: Boise State University, University of Edinburgh, Aarhus University, University of Lancashire, The University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, University of Amsterdam
Language: English
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,020
OpenAlex ID: W4413860474
FWCI: 4.227
Cites: 44
Cited by: 5
Related to: 10