Co-design: some principles, theory and practice…

I recently had the pleasure of teaching a workshop on co-design techniques at UTS as part of their new Design Masters program. The term co-design refers to a range of things and is a philosophical and political approach to design best applied throughout the design life cycle [1]. The focus of this particular session was on techniques that you might use at the fuzzy-front end of the design process and included hands-on examples of the kinds of activities we might do as part of a co-design workshop. This post is a summary of the key messages on co-design covered as part of the session. (A second post will summarise the day and some of the questions from the students).  Continue reading…

Design in the wild: PDC’10 Presentation

A collation of posts from the 11th Participatory Design Conference

The full week of fabulous workshops, tutorials and presentations that made up the 11th Participatory Design Conference 2010 at the beginning of this month (December) is already somewhat of a blur of great people, insights & presentations. I hoped to provide a summary of my own, but alas the thesis called – instead I’ve collated some fabulous insights by others who not only attended and contributed but who also managed to share their experiences  Thanks again to all those who came and participated and thanks to the following authors (esp. @malbooth ) for sharing your thoughts. Continue reading…