Hi Jennifer,
You might wish to study the literature on citizen participation and participatory design. The participatory movement started in the late 1950's in Scandinavia, in management and in architecture and urban planning. In the last two decades, there is proliferation of terminology, spurred by fashionable philosophical and ideological movements. In this respect, everything starting with Co- can be viewed as a subfield of citizen participation/participatory design. Even participatory action research should be treated this way.
It is a pity that no one chose to build upon the classic developments on participation. At the beginning, there was more emphasis on methodology rather than ideology. Nowadays, most of the publications are ideologized and politicized. I miss the methodological developments that were most interesting to me as a designer.
However, there are reasons for the proliferation of terminology. Each design field creates its own myths about participation, gurus, and terminology. It seems to me that the efforts spill in many directions without much communication among the fields. It is a pity. There is a need for developing a sound theory of participation and participatory design, professionalization of participatory methods, and epistemology of participatory research, to name just a few of the problem areas.
Best wishes,
Lubomir
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Subject: Co-design as a designedly approach
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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