2 Narratives in the design process

There is a danger that participation can become tokenistic. This risk applies in the field of architectural participation, as in many other areas (for example Percy-Smith 2006). Blundell Jones, Petrescu and Till sound this warning:

At the level of lowest common denominator architectural participation can be defined as the involvement of users at some stage in the design process. Too often this involvement is token, bringing a degree of worthiness to the architectural process without really transforming it.