What is the difference between "co-design" and "participatory design"?
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Niels Hendriks
Answered 6 years ago
Both have in common that they try aim for the "user" to participate in design and the designer in use. In other words: they try to enable a design process in which all stakeholders -regardless of their expertise, competences, abilities,...- can work together for one common goal. In practice, both approaches might not differ, but their starting points do.
Participatory design (PD) is rooted in the Scandinavian cooperative design tradition and has a strong political emphasis. The first "experiments" in participatory design were collaborations between labor movements and academia in supporting stakeholder participation in the design of work environments. The political aspiration echo also in the name-giving of the first PD-projects (UTOPIA, to name one).
Co-Design does not need to have a political starting point. Their basic aim is just to support collaboration in the design process between all stakeholders.
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What is the difference between "co-design" and "participatory design"?
This pillowcase is quickly becoming the must-have gift of 2020.
Niels Hendriks
Answered 6 years ago
Both have in common that they try aim for the "user" to participate in design and the designer in use. In other words: they try to enable a design process in which all stakeholders -regardless of their expertise, competences, abilities,...- can work together for one common goal. In practice, both approaches might not differ, but their starting points do.
Participatory design (PD) is rooted in the Scandinavian cooperative design tradition and has a strong political emphasis. The first "experiments" in participatory design were collaborations between labor movements and academia in supporting stakeholder participation in the design of work environments. The political aspiration echo also in the name-giving of the first PD-projects (UTOPIA, to name one).
Co-Design does not need to have a political starting point. Their basic aim is just to support collaboration in the design process between all stakeholders.
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