Presentation on participatory design research process undertaken by CHS for now unbuilt Connecticut History Center.

1. Community Participation in Defining the Connecticut History Center The Connecticut Historical Society Museum Results of the participatory design activities conducted by SonicRim

10. When you involve ordinary people in the design development process, you begin to see with new eyes. Participatory Design

11. Participatory Design mindset requires respect for new principles. Participatory Design mindset

12. Implication: Use their dreams as “design seeds” All people have dreams 1

13. 2 People are creative Implication: Give them different types of participatory tools to promote creativity in their thinking.

14. Implication: Encourage people to externalize their imagination. People will fill in what is unseen and unsaid based on their imagination. 3

15. 4 Implication: Use ambiguous visual stimuli to make the tacit explicit. People project their needs onto ambiguous stimuli because they are driven to make meaning.

27. Immerse Yourself in History

28. Encounters

29. Ingenious Products

30. How Did We Do It? Sample Prompt

39. Thank You!