{"id":1599,"date":"2018-11-19T17:13:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/design\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2018-11-19T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:13:23","slug":"beyond-buzzwords-the-language-of-collaborative-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/design\/beyond-buzzwords-the-language-of-collaborative-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Buzzwords: the language of collaborative design"},"content":{"rendered":"

In collaboration with our strategic partners, The Glass-House Community Led Design<\/a>, we recently organised and delivered an event to explore key terms used to describe collaborative design activity: co-design, co-production, participation and community-led design. These terms are used by some people interchangeably, while others assign specific meaning and kinds of practices to each one. To explore how these terms are used and understood in practice, we invited different people to share their experiences and knowledge about these terms: students, academics, practitioners, active citizens. The focus was on collaborative design in the context of placemaking.<\/p>\n

Following the world caf\u00e9 method<\/a>, participants were seated in small groups around tables, each focussed on one theme. After spending some time at their table, members of each group were able to move around, explore and contribute to discussions about other terms. At the end we put the outputs of each table (notes and sketches) on a wall and collectively tried to explore connections between them. A bunch of us from the Design Group were sat at the tables to help facilitate and capture conversations.<\/p>\n