Co-Creation
What is Co-Creation?
In life-centered design, we co-create and prototype life-centered pathways with nature & communities. Ingrid Burckett defines co-design as: "collaborating, including and designing WITH people that will use, deliver or engage with a service or product."
This definition does not include the planet, while nature also provides and interacts with services, products, and organizations, often impacted by their use.
You can include nature in the co-design space by giving nature a voice. A representative of species, habitats or ecosystems, such as scientists or NGOs, can give that voice. Or you can create non-human personas and include them in the co-design practice. You must first create ethical principles when using non-human personas in the design space. This way, we make sure nature benefits.
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“The numerous grand challenges around us demand new approaches to build alternative sustainable futures collectively. Whereas these so-called co-design processes are becoming more mainstream, many multi-stakeholder coalitions lack practical guidance in these dynamic and systemic challenges based on entangled relationships, interactions, and experiences between stakeholders and their environments “ - Wina Smeenk
Co-creation/ Co-design is an integral part of Life-Centered Design, which aims to make a positive, transparent, and holistic impact. It helps designers recover and collect clearer insights to be better prepared and innovate holistically.
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Co-creating and co-designing are understanding outcomes and impact by collectively researching & designing with citizens, nature, experts and other designers & makers.
Prototypes are essential to co-design because they help us understand the topic we are working on by making them tangible. Co-creation sessions are a way to think holistically and co-design by taking action to discover new perspectives.
Life-Centered Design Fundamentals Course
Join designer and creative professionals from all over the world and make the shift from human to life-centered design and make a real impact with your work.
