Homeless Young People, Jobs, and a Future Vision: Community Members' Perceptions of the Job Co-op
dc.contributor.author | Hendry, David G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Abokhodair, Norah | |
dc.contributor.author | Kinsley, Rose Paquet | |
dc.contributor.author | Woelfer, Jill Palzkill | |
dc.contributor.editor | Lewkowicz, Myriam | |
dc.contributor.editor | Rohde, Markus | |
dc.contributor.editor | Mulder, Ingrid | |
dc.contributor.editor | Schuler, Douglas | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-04T19:54:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-04T19:54:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.description.abstract | We report on an empirical study where neighborhood stakeholders' views of the Job Co-op future vision were investigated. Taking on the values of a grassroots service agency, while also drawing on emerging practices of peer-to-peer sharing systems, the Job Co-op matches homeless young people, up to age 30, to suitable jobs and job sponsors. Community members were invited to engage the future vison at a streetfair exhibition, comprising a carnival wheel of barriers and solutions to homelessness for beginning conversations; a storyboard for introducing the design vision; and a questionnaire for eliciting feedback. Qualitative analysis of 71 collected questionnaires explicated the socio-technical design space for addressing the problem of youth, homelessness, and jobs. The method demonstrates the use of exhibition design for constructing a design-oriented social context---for community engagement, for educational outreach, for disseminating research and design possibilities, for conducting research, and for cooperative design. | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1145/3083671.3083680 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-4503-4854-6 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | ACM Press, New York | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies | |
dc.subject | Community-based Research | |
dc.subject | Day Labor | |
dc.subject | Homeless Young People | |
dc.subject | Jobs | |
dc.subject | Neighborhoods | |
dc.subject | Non-profit Organizations | |
dc.subject | Peer-to-peer Sharing Systems | |
dc.subject | Socio-technical Systems | |
dc.title | Homeless Young People, Jobs, and a Future Vision: Community Members' Perceptions of the Job Co-op | en |
dc.type | Text/Conference Paper | |
gi.citation.endPage | 31 | |
gi.citation.startPage | 22 | |
gi.conference.date | June 26-30, 2017 | |
gi.conference.location | Troyes, France | |
gi.conference.sessiontitle | Long Papers | |
mci.conference.review | full |