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Reflections : Co-Designing with Young People with Cognitive Disability

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In 2021 I had the privilege to work with an Australian disability organisation on a program of work, co-designing new Community Participation Programs for Young People with Disability. The organisation currently offers programs primarily to adult clients and sensed an opportunity to deliver new programs specifically for Young People. They chose to take a co-design […]

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Codesign capability building at FACS

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I have recently been conducting some co-design programs with a regional NSW Family and Community Services agency. The programs are designed to build co-design capability amongst public sector employees, build relationship with their clients, and improve service delivery. This workshop was conducted over three days and participants were taught some design research/co-design methods. ADHC Co-design

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Social innovation / HCD / service design resources

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Curious about applying design thinking methods to solve a tricky problem? Some really great design tool-kits have come across my radar. Check out the list below. Perhaps you have a problem you can apply them to. Feel free to leave a comment about these or if you use any others which are useful?   The

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Designing With Sydney : Introduction to Social Design Evening

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In August I organised an event for the Sydney Design Festival called Introduction to Social Design Evening. It consisted of a series of case-studies about social design projects by Sydney practitioners. Tasman Munro  shares his experiences co-designing with inmates and staff in NSW Corrective Services. Centre for Social Impact fellow Social Designer Ingrid Burkett shared

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Design PHD Conference at Lancaster University

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I am very excited to be attending the 2011 Design PHD Conference at the Imagingation Lancaster Lab at Lancaster University next month. The Imagination lab are doing some really interesting work in the areas of Democratising Innovation (i.e Von Hippel’s book – free download!) Design for Sustainability Design Futures Design Management Service Design I have

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About Co-design

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Expanding upon a post on my UX Think blog about the initiative by EU governments to encourage design driven innovation within the EU, I found some videos explaining what co-design is from UK service design agencies Think Public and Engine. This last post had many examples of this drive within UK and both these videos discuss

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About Co-design

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Expanding upon my last post about the initiative by EU governments to encourage design driven innovation within the EU, I found some videos explaining what co-design is from UK service design agencies Think Public and Engine. This last post had many examples of this drive within UK and both these videos discuss Service Design work they

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Thinking About Participatory Design Research : Part 1

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Participatory Design (PD) has it’s beginnings in Scandinavia in the 70’s where there was a movement by academics and trade unionists to involve users in the design of the applications that were being designed to assist their work. It aimed to prevent workers from being dis-empowered by the tools and computer technologies imposed on them

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