Dear Jennifer and all
On October 18, you submitted to us the following questions:
"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?"
I hope the following is of some help to you and others as references.
First, I didn't intervene earlier in the conversation as I was in rush
conceptually designing and practically putting in place some preliminary
foundation poles for an export structure for flowers farmed here in Rwanda.
These poles now in the ground (two days ago we shipped to the Netherlands
705 Kgs of mixed cut flowers, a première in the country) are anchored by
me, the initiator, conceiver, and co-financier of the service, by the
Rwanda government body, NAEB (National Agricultural Export Board) in charge
of export of all horticultural production in the country, and the farmers
scattered but carefully selected throughout the entire territory. In
agriculture planning parlance, this is called Private-Public-and Producer
Partnership, or 4Ps. In design parlance, this definitely is one form of
co-design or participation in design and active co-implementation of a
service, and co-designing all the many artifactual implements and
organization schemes indispensable for the service to be effective,
efficient, and efficacious.
Second, I'll refer you to the paper published a while ago in Design
Issues (Fall
2010, Vol. 26, No. 4, pages 57-71), in which I report on how the co-design
was, over 40 years ago now, tentatively developed into a Science by friends
in Paris. And concurring with one of Lubomir's posts in this thread, that
there actually more 'ideology' development and less of methodology. Indeed,
the suggested Science has never been developed further, for lack of
awareness and enthusiastic support. I even presently have in my files a
manuscript (in French) by one of my mentors that, alas, has never gathered
that much interest in the world Design Academy.
I do hope you'll sometime later share with us all, and I am looking forward
to it, your conclusions on this interesting thread!
Francois
Kigali, Rwanda
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