Unveiling Co-Design
Overview
This research project aims at promoting awareness on and investigating and addressing bias and indirect exclusion dynamics that might be present and/or happen in co-design processes with communities.
In doing this, it explores how co-design processes and decision-making activities can be based on a more comprehensive understanding of how the process unfolds in the local context.
A reflective process was designed to support designers in understanding the broader impact of the processes they design and implement and speculate how to address identified limitations . You can download it here
If you try the process and have any feedback, we would love to hear it. Send an email to urbanimaginarieslab@gmail.com
keywords: co-design, democracy, exclusion, ecosystem, networks
Carleton University
2019 - ongoing
-
The co-design approach is often considered as a key catalyst for making everyday life more democratic. However, co-design processes can also bring challenges and risks to the participatory democracy that they aim to promote. In the specific case of this research project, the focus is on exploring and strengthening the democratic potential of co-design processes.
The project does that by identifying, reflecting, and promoting awareness on the exclusion dynamics inherent to co-design processes.
-
This research project is an exploratory investigation based on a generative research approach. After a scoping review on the current discussion on the topic; a process is being designed to support designers in identifying the exclusion dynamics that characterize their own (past) co-design processes, and the factors and reasons behind them. The process will be tested with designers that are experts in co-design activity, and then shared with the wider community.