Hi Jennifer,
Graphic designers all around are definitely using participation and user-generated content to produce work, acting in some cases more as enables, editors and curators. There’s a 2011 book: Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content Helen Armstrong and Zvezdana Stojmirovic. Princeton Architectural Press. It explains ideas of participation coming from the the arts and how is now central to the design disciplines. The book showcases projects of design studios as well as school assignments demonstrating principles of participation, co-design and collaboration. There’s also a related website: http://participatorydesign.net/
It is a subject of my interest too so any research that you can share is also very welcome!
Camila Afanador-Llach
Assistant Professor - Graphic Design
Florida Atlantic University
Department of Visual Arts & Art History LA326
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On Oct 18, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Jennifer Smerdel <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hi all,
The role of a designer has evolved greatly over the past few decades. We are no longer asked to simply create a poster or a web page, but to solve complex "wicked" problems employing a human-centered approach. Within this landscape, and that of participatory research, the approaches of co-creation and co-design have been growing. Elizabeth Sanders and Pieter Jan Stappers define co-design as "collective creativity as it is applied across the whole span of a design process...the creativity of designers and people not trained in design working together in the design development process."
As one who is interested in co-design and the application of it, are there varying frameworks or components, such as hands-on building and collaboration, of co-design written about in scholarly research? Who is utilizing co-design and how are they making an impact with it? And what are the best practices of co-design? And finally are there specific methods utilizing co-design that you all have utilized and found success in what you were trying to accomplish?
Any and all comments are welcome as well as links to any scholarly research or websites you all think may be helpful in answering these questions even further!
Sanders, Elizabeth B.-N., and Pieter Jan Stappers. “Co-creation and the New Landscapes of Design.” CoDesign 4, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 5–18. doi:10.1080/15710880701875068.
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