CoDesign
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis Ltd. (GB) |
| ISSN | 1571-0882 / 1745-3755 |
| Scopus | 19700201037 |
| Wikidata | Q15763828 |
| OpenAlex | S4210189112 |
| Website | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ncdn20/current |
| Total publications | 55 |
| Coverage period | 2012 - 2026 |
| Country | GB |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| SJR | 0.602 (Q1) |
| SNIP | 1.77 |
| CiteScore | 5.6 |
| Female authorship share | 63.9% |
Architecture · Visual Arts and Performing Arts · Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design · Art Education and Development · Augmented Reality Applications · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
Co-designing landscape visual representations as a pedagogical process
Landscape represents the complex interplay between physical and biological systems that sustain life. Recognising this, there is a growing call for a socio-ecological transition. Yet, urban and architectural design education often lacks the operational depth to foster lasting, meaningful relationships of care with the landscape and the planet.To bridge this gap, the Architecture of Landscape course at the Lisbon School of Architecture uses visual…
Co-design in the street
Co-design has become a prominent vocabulary in UK urban design and planning, frequently associated with participation, inclusion, and community empowerment, especially in street-based interventions and placemaking. This article examines co-design as an urban practice embedded in everyday spatial conditions shaped by neoliberal restructuring and austerity. Methodologically, it combines a critical narrative review, used here as a selective and inte…
Establishing fundamental co-design principles and strategies for public health research practice
This study focuses on defining standard co-design principles and exploring strategies for their application in public health research. A secondary analysis was conducted, examining 55 studies sourced from a systematic review, employing directed content analysis to clarify co-design principles and their applications. The research followed Mayring’s model for deductive category application, resulting in the development and testing of eight standard…
Social housing renovation for ageing-in-place in the Netherlands
With the increasing ageing population, many older adults still live in the generally designed housing stock, which could be ‘unsuitable’ for them. One effective way to enhance their quality of life and independence is to renovate existing housing. The development of innovative technologies (e.g. virtual reality) and design approaches (e.g. co-design) can provide new strategies for housing renovation practices. However, the knowledge of synergisin…
Cocreating support
As digital inclusion support is not one-size-fits-all, one should consider the implementation context and include stakeholder perspectives. Using cocreation, a digital inclusion intervention is designed for Dutch parents in poverty. An integral intervention approach is taken, considering barriers in all internet appropriation phases (attitude & motivation, material access, skills, and usage). This study holds two phases: a cocreation workshop and…
Understanding stigma through camera-based mobile apps
This study used multiple methods to investigate the stigma experienced by visually impaired people (VIP) when using a camera-based assistive mobile application. Initial investigations, including semi-structured interviews with VIP and a formalised expert conversation with academics and designers, highlighted the role of design and cooperation in mitigating stigma issues. The semi-structured interviews, formalised expert conversation, and co-desig…
Trauma informed participatory design
Trauma-informed participatory design brings attention to lived experience and the lasting impacts of trauma, yet it remains under-defined with limited practical guidance, particularly given the diverse ways trauma can manifest. This paper draws on a nine-month study in which we conducted trauma-informed PD to co-design a mental health recovery app. Through collaborative reflections, interviews, and surveys, we collected both empirical and reflect…
Reshaping team collaboration and creativity in co-design
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into co-design practices, yet their impact on collaboration structure, cognitive activity, and creativity remains underexplored. This study investigates how LLMs reshape team collaboration and cognitive processes in co-design, focusing on novice designer teams. Drawing on the co-evolution model, we propose a structured analytical framework that links collaborative cognitive activities with …
Facilitating with care
This article explores how feminist ethics of care can inform and transform participatory design (PD) facilitation in urban planning. Drawing on two European case studies - InclusiveCity and Cities in Placemaking – the research examines how care-centred approaches challenge technocratic and transactional PD practices. Through an abductive process combining theory and empirical analysis, the study introduces three conceptual frames: interdependency…
Creative sensitisation as epistemic intervention
Social desirability bias (SDB) can shape how participants narrate sensitive experiences in participatory research and co-design, limiting the authenticity of data generated. This study examines how creative, arts-based sensitisation can mitigate SDB and support more genuine storytelling in health-related co-design. Adopting a design research approach, we developed a comic-making sensitisation intervention grounded in literature on reflective stor…
Seamful infrastructuring through material engagement for energy transitions with youth
While the concept of infrastructuring has become well established in Participatory Design (PD), understanding how infrastructuring unfolds within complex sociotechnical issues for sustainability, such as energy transitions, remains underexplored. This study analyzes six PD energy projects where school communities co-designed and prototyped renewable energy technologies and used them. We illustrate how direct, hands-on material engagement with ren…
Reimagining inclusive creative ecosystems
Respecting and embracing diversity as a social approach is essential for seeking new perspectives and creative solutions. In this context, a model of inclusive creative ecosystems in barrier-free arts is introduced. This model redefines disabled individuals as sensory-based creative agents and positions sensory diversity as a creative resource, dismantling the disability/non-disability binary and establishing collaborative structures in which all…
Co-designing shared experiences for and with deaf and hearing museum visitors
Shared experiences between deaf and hearing museum visitors are often hindered by sensory gaps, emerging from differences in sensory perception and interpretation. To better meet the needs and expectations of sensory-diverse visitors museums increasingly co-design exhibitions together with them. Which design practices support egalitarian co-design between deaf and hearing participants, however, remains unclear. Therefore, we conducted two co-desi…
Sustainable participation design analysis framework
With urban development shifting from expansive growth to more refined community-level renewal, the role of participatory design (PD) in urban regeneration has become increasingly prominent. However, current research predominantly focuses on the project-level, lacking a comprehensive evaluation of PD’s long-standing influence on promoting social sustainability. Employing a mixed-methods research design, this paper delves into the interaction mecha…
Improving access to co-design through remote, adapted, and asynchronous approaches
Healthcare research is increasingly focused on involving patients and the public in service design. This involvement is referred to in many ways, including Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), co-design, co-creation, or co-production. Engaging stakeholders including end-users in research is recognised as best practice, yet there is often little evaluation of the effectiveness of the approaches used to facilitate this engagement. In this paper, w…
Co-design from a knowledge transformation perspective
The study explores the impact of emerging technologies on traditional crafts, emphasises collaboration between craftspeople and designers, and examines new perspectives on local crafts. A collaborative design framework centred on knowledge transformation and toolkit is proposed to promote multi-level collaboration throughout the design process. Through practice-led research, we rigorously examined the collaborative interactions between designers …
Disability-inclusive iterative workshops as a co-design method
People with cognitive disability are subject to harm in their daily interactions, such as being ignored, humiliated and disrespected. Our study sought to explore this ‘everyday harm’ empirically. This article presents a case study of the use of disability-inclusive iterative workshops as a co-design method. The workshop method had two key outcomes. First, it confirmed that participants were very familiar with the concept (everyday harm) that the …
Contextual influences on park design
The value of participatory co-design
Participatory design (PD) has been increasingly applied to support community-based sustainability initiatives, particularly in rural contexts where local knowledge and material constraints shape upcycling practices. However, limited access to design expertise may affect the long-term viability of such initiatives. This study explores how PD principles intersect with upcycling practices in small communities in Thailand through semi-structured inte…
A bibliometric study on architectural education and participation (2000–2024)
This research presents a systematic literature analysis based on bibliometric data regarding the evolving key concepts of participation in the context of architectural education and environmental crises. The aim of the research is to identify potential research opportunities in the area of participatory architectural education. The Web of Science (WOS) database was opted for the bibliometric analysis process due to its access to multidisciplinary…
Design implications for supporting youth co-design of interactive technologies through functional prototyping
Youth co-design has the potential to surface creative and personally meaningful ideas for future technologies, yet participation often stops at the ideation phase. Without accessible tools for functional prototyping, youth may struggle to develop their ideas further, limiting both their engagement in co-design and their ability to communicate their visions. This paper presents iReal, a tangible prototyping toolkit co-designed with youths and educ…
Two decades of contextmapping
1. Two decades ago, Co-Design practices saw a rise, as marked by the launch of this journal. At the time, many design researchers, including the authors, were looking for structured ways to bring o...
Collective machine teaching
Amid overwhelming evidence from the social sciences about the inherently extractive nature of predominant machine learning imaginaries, and visceral designerly and artistic explorations of how algorithmic governance of urban resources consumes our labour and bodies, calls to put people back into AI are growing. This paper describes a participatory experimental design project that adopts a critical making approach to rehearse collective machine te…
A thick mapping of the San Juan Basin (Pasco, Peru)
The San Juan Basin’s ecologies exist amidst widespread landscape ecological degradation in a high-altitude environment of the Peruvian Tropical Andes. Designing (post-)mining landscapes for such settings necessitates interdisciplinary coalitions and tools materialising caring landscape ecological transitions. Thick mapping tools can incorporate interdisciplinary inputs into an incremental co-design process that thickens the present while confront…
Deliberating, designing, and doing situated ethics in citizen collaborations
Collaborative design is a complex practice in which designer(-researchers) and non-designers share their knowledge and experiences for co-production. How collaboration is conducted is often ridden with power tensions and ethical entanglements that require sensitive navigation. Contributing to the discourse at the nexus of ethics and collaborative design, this article proposes a thinking framework around situated ethics – a pantogram mapping four …
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Agonistic participatory design
Participatory design (PD) has become increasingly engaged in public spheres and everyday life and is no longer solely concerned with the workplace. This is not only a shift from work-oriented productive activities to leisure and pleasurable engagements, but also a new milieu for production and ‘innovation’. What ‘democratic innovation’ entails is often currently defined by management and innovation research, which claims that innovation has been …
The bizarre bazaar
In this paper, we consider the FabLab as an experimental facility for research, intervention and learning. By providing a space that affords close proximity between users, producers, technologies and materials, the FabLab affords a ‘hybrid hub’ for weaving relations between these. Borrowing the metaphor of ‘the bazaar’, we argue that FabLabs, due to their open and nonregulated character, can be seen as offering what we call a ‘bizarre bazaar’ for…
Co-designing landscape visual representations as a pedagogical process
Landscape represents the complex interplay between physical and biological systems that sustain life. Recognising this, there is a growing call for a socio-ecological transition. Yet, urban and architectural design education often lacks the operational depth to foster lasting, meaningful relationships of care with the landscape and the planet.To bridge this gap, the Architecture of Landscape course at the Lisbon School of Architecture uses visual…
Co-design in the street
Co-design has become a prominent vocabulary in UK urban design and planning, frequently associated with participation, inclusion, and community empowerment, especially in street-based interventions and placemaking. This article examines co-design as an urban practice embedded in everyday spatial conditions shaped by neoliberal restructuring and austerity. Methodologically, it combines a critical narrative review, used here as a selective and inte…
Establishing fundamental co-design principles and strategies for public health research practice
This study focuses on defining standard co-design principles and exploring strategies for their application in public health research. A secondary analysis was conducted, examining 55 studies sourced from a systematic review, employing directed content analysis to clarify co-design principles and their applications. The research followed Mayring’s model for deductive category application, resulting in the development and testing of eight standard…
Social housing renovation for ageing-in-place in the Netherlands
With the increasing ageing population, many older adults still live in the generally designed housing stock, which could be ‘unsuitable’ for them. One effective way to enhance their quality of life and independence is to renovate existing housing. The development of innovative technologies (e.g. virtual reality) and design approaches (e.g. co-design) can provide new strategies for housing renovation practices. However, the knowledge of synergisin…
Cocreating support
As digital inclusion support is not one-size-fits-all, one should consider the implementation context and include stakeholder perspectives. Using cocreation, a digital inclusion intervention is designed for Dutch parents in poverty. An integral intervention approach is taken, considering barriers in all internet appropriation phases (attitude & motivation, material access, skills, and usage). This study holds two phases: a cocreation workshop and…
Understanding stigma through camera-based mobile apps
This study used multiple methods to investigate the stigma experienced by visually impaired people (VIP) when using a camera-based assistive mobile application. Initial investigations, including semi-structured interviews with VIP and a formalised expert conversation with academics and designers, highlighted the role of design and cooperation in mitigating stigma issues. The semi-structured interviews, formalised expert conversation, and co-desig…
Trauma informed participatory design
Trauma-informed participatory design brings attention to lived experience and the lasting impacts of trauma, yet it remains under-defined with limited practical guidance, particularly given the diverse ways trauma can manifest. This paper draws on a nine-month study in which we conducted trauma-informed PD to co-design a mental health recovery app. Through collaborative reflections, interviews, and surveys, we collected both empirical and reflect…
Reshaping team collaboration and creativity in co-design
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into co-design practices, yet their impact on collaboration structure, cognitive activity, and creativity remains underexplored. This study investigates how LLMs reshape team collaboration and cognitive processes in co-design, focusing on novice designer teams. Drawing on the co-evolution model, we propose a structured analytical framework that links collaborative cognitive activities with …
Facilitating with care
This article explores how feminist ethics of care can inform and transform participatory design (PD) facilitation in urban planning. Drawing on two European case studies - InclusiveCity and Cities in Placemaking – the research examines how care-centred approaches challenge technocratic and transactional PD practices. Through an abductive process combining theory and empirical analysis, the study introduces three conceptual frames: interdependency…
Creative sensitisation as epistemic intervention
Social desirability bias (SDB) can shape how participants narrate sensitive experiences in participatory research and co-design, limiting the authenticity of data generated. This study examines how creative, arts-based sensitisation can mitigate SDB and support more genuine storytelling in health-related co-design. Adopting a design research approach, we developed a comic-making sensitisation intervention grounded in literature on reflective stor…
Seamful infrastructuring through material engagement for energy transitions with youth
While the concept of infrastructuring has become well established in Participatory Design (PD), understanding how infrastructuring unfolds within complex sociotechnical issues for sustainability, such as energy transitions, remains underexplored. This study analyzes six PD energy projects where school communities co-designed and prototyped renewable energy technologies and used them. We illustrate how direct, hands-on material engagement with ren…
Reimagining inclusive creative ecosystems
Respecting and embracing diversity as a social approach is essential for seeking new perspectives and creative solutions. In this context, a model of inclusive creative ecosystems in barrier-free arts is introduced. This model redefines disabled individuals as sensory-based creative agents and positions sensory diversity as a creative resource, dismantling the disability/non-disability binary and establishing collaborative structures in which all…
Co-designing shared experiences for and with deaf and hearing museum visitors
Shared experiences between deaf and hearing museum visitors are often hindered by sensory gaps, emerging from differences in sensory perception and interpretation. To better meet the needs and expectations of sensory-diverse visitors museums increasingly co-design exhibitions together with them. Which design practices support egalitarian co-design between deaf and hearing participants, however, remains unclear. Therefore, we conducted two co-desi…
Sustainable participation design analysis framework
With urban development shifting from expansive growth to more refined community-level renewal, the role of participatory design (PD) in urban regeneration has become increasingly prominent. However, current research predominantly focuses on the project-level, lacking a comprehensive evaluation of PD’s long-standing influence on promoting social sustainability. Employing a mixed-methods research design, this paper delves into the interaction mecha…
Improving access to co-design through remote, adapted, and asynchronous approaches
Healthcare research is increasingly focused on involving patients and the public in service design. This involvement is referred to in many ways, including Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), co-design, co-creation, or co-production. Engaging stakeholders including end-users in research is recognised as best practice, yet there is often little evaluation of the effectiveness of the approaches used to facilitate this engagement. In this paper, w…
Co-design from a knowledge transformation perspective
The study explores the impact of emerging technologies on traditional crafts, emphasises collaboration between craftspeople and designers, and examines new perspectives on local crafts. A collaborative design framework centred on knowledge transformation and toolkit is proposed to promote multi-level collaboration throughout the design process. Through practice-led research, we rigorously examined the collaborative interactions between designers …
Disability-inclusive iterative workshops as a co-design method
People with cognitive disability are subject to harm in their daily interactions, such as being ignored, humiliated and disrespected. Our study sought to explore this ‘everyday harm’ empirically. This article presents a case study of the use of disability-inclusive iterative workshops as a co-design method. The workshop method had two key outcomes. First, it confirmed that participants were very familiar with the concept (everyday harm) that the …
Contextual influences on park design
The value of participatory co-design
Participatory design (PD) has been increasingly applied to support community-based sustainability initiatives, particularly in rural contexts where local knowledge and material constraints shape upcycling practices. However, limited access to design expertise may affect the long-term viability of such initiatives. This study explores how PD principles intersect with upcycling practices in small communities in Thailand through semi-structured inte…
A bibliometric study on architectural education and participation (2000–2024)
This research presents a systematic literature analysis based on bibliometric data regarding the evolving key concepts of participation in the context of architectural education and environmental crises. The aim of the research is to identify potential research opportunities in the area of participatory architectural education. The Web of Science (WOS) database was opted for the bibliometric analysis process due to its access to multidisciplinary…
Design implications for supporting youth co-design of interactive technologies through functional prototyping
Youth co-design has the potential to surface creative and personally meaningful ideas for future technologies, yet participation often stops at the ideation phase. Without accessible tools for functional prototyping, youth may struggle to develop their ideas further, limiting both their engagement in co-design and their ability to communicate their visions. This paper presents iReal, a tangible prototyping toolkit co-designed with youths and educ…
Two decades of contextmapping
1. Two decades ago, Co-Design practices saw a rise, as marked by the launch of this journal. At the time, many design researchers, including the authors, were looking for structured ways to bring o...
Collective machine teaching
Amid overwhelming evidence from the social sciences about the inherently extractive nature of predominant machine learning imaginaries, and visceral designerly and artistic explorations of how algorithmic governance of urban resources consumes our labour and bodies, calls to put people back into AI are growing. This paper describes a participatory experimental design project that adopts a critical making approach to rehearse collective machine te…