Co-Design: PARTICIPATORY
DESIGN & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Co-Design places children as design partners in the process. This workshop has the option for the parents to attend so they can come to know children’s real abilities. The communication process with the children will be more in-depth and analogy driven than the adults. However, children can definitely co-design just as well. The children will be engaged about the philosophy of co-design and learn why participatory design is important. They will then be engaged on their own wants, needs, and imagination. Their ideas will be interpreted into design language and action. The facilitator will use prompts, questions, games, sketching, narration, mapping, and modelling with the group to capture their thoughts and fit it into the final outcome. In this workshop, the participants will be asked through co-design to design “happiness” . They will experience the design process with the facilitators and learn how co-design works. The final product will be an architectural structure that represents the voices of the room. 1. Defining what “happiness” means to
them. 2. Facilitators will be with each group to capture the conversations. The second step will be ideating what it will take to “build” happiness based on the previous overall definition. Here they think about how to reach happiness. 3. The final step is the design process. Based on the definition and the needs defined in the previous steps, the room “co-designs” an architectural structure that represents everyone’s idea of happiness.