Eriksson, M. (2015). Participatory design for accessibility: the case of the Funktek pilots. Conference paper presented at NNDR 13th Research Conference, Univerity of Bergen and Bergen University Collage. Bergen, Norway, 1 June 2015.
In this paper I will describe my research on the participatory research project Funktek, which has the primary aim of evaluating and improving the accessibility of the Gothenburg City Museum. I will describe the methodological innovation the project is working with as well as some preliminary result of the still ongoing project. This paper will rst describe the Funktek project and my role as a researcher within it, then proceed to describe the main methodological innovation – The Funktek Pilots – and some preliminary results from their activities. It will end with conclusions for how the work within Funktek has implications for thinking about participation and accessibility as well as for participatory action research.
