Prescott Tony, Robillard Julie M, Murray Stuart
Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University of British Columbia and BC Children's and Women's Hospital and Health Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Med Humanit. 2025 Jan 2;50(4):715-716. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2024-013078.
Participatory design places a strong emphasis on human agency, user perspectives and democratic ideals of inclusivity and empowerment, and is therefore often associated with humanist principles and values. In contrast, critical posthumanism questions key humanist assumptions about the centred and singular nature of the 'human condition'. Instead, posthumanism points to the evolving and diverse lived experiences of people and how these are transformed by (and are transforming of) culture, environment and technology. In this commentary, we explore how participatory design could benefit from a posthumanist perspective that more explicitly acknowledges the entangled and interconnected nature of our technologised lives.
参与式设计非常强调人的能动性、用户视角以及包容性和赋权的民主理想，因此常常与人文主义原则和价值观相关联。相比之下，批判性后人文主义对关于“人类状况”的中心化和单一性质的关键人文主义假设提出质疑。相反，后人文主义指出人们不断演变且多样的生活经历，以及这些经历如何被文化、环境和技术所改变（并正在改变着文化、环境和技术）。在这篇评论中，我们探讨参与式设计如何能够从后人文主义视角中受益，该视角更明确地承认我们技术化生活的相互交织和相互关联的本质。
