CODESIGN COOKBOOK

Recipes To Help You Connect

20 Seminal CoDesign Papers.
Distilled into Principles for Home, Work and Play

Laura Fries | MS Candidate | Digital Media | May 2011

 Presentation Outline
CoDesign: Overview Project Methodology

What is CoDesign? Literature Review

What does it look like? Notecard Creation/Curation

How can I learn more about CoDesign? Custom CMS & Template Creation

Problem Space & Proposed Solution Project Demo & Conclusion

CoDesign Literature Access Summary of Project

Similar Artifacts Contributions to the Field

Cookbook as a Format to Remediate Future Extensions

 Project
Overview PLACEHOLDERER

The CoDesign Cookbook is an

exploration, suggesting ways
practitioners of participatory design
might create or contribute to digital
media forms that communicate their
research findings to a broad audience
of academics and laypeople alike.
 Project
Overview PLACEHOLDERER

The CoDesign Cookbook is a

website powered by a custom
Content Management System (CMS)
built on the Wordpress framework.
This handwritten theme is based off
the ToolBox HTML5 theme using
CSS and PHP.
WHAT IS CODESIGN?
What does it look like? How can I learn about it?
 CODESIGN
Experts and Non-Experts Working Together in the Design
Development Process
 Codesign
“The Creativity of Designers and
People Not Trained in Design
Working Together in the Design
Development Process”
- Elizabeth Sanders
 CoDesign is
Profoundly
Democratic
It enables the ideas of non-designers
to be transmitted in designerly ways
to broader audiences, helping
laypeople to communicate their
vision for future technologies.

RIGHT: Rebecca Williams’ Prototype for a

MowBa - the Robotic Mower
 THRU CODESIGN ...
Rebecca Williams’ Prototype for a Robotic Mower for Pasture-based
Agriculture Featured on CNN, Gourmet & Wired
 THRU CODESIGN ...
Rebecca Williams’ Prototype for a Robotic Mower for Pasture-based
Agriculture Featured on CNN, Gourmet & Wired
 CODESIGN PROCESS
Flowchart via (Sanders & Stappers 2008)

Design Ideas &

Prototype
Criteria Concepting
 CODESIGN PROCESS
Flowchart via (Sanders & Stappers 2008)

Commercial Product
Design Ideas &
Prototype
Criteria Concepting
Scholarship

Submitted Scholarship: DiSalvo, C., Fries, L. et al. 2011.“The Collective

Articulation of Issues as Design Practice.” CoDesign.
HERE’S THE CATCH
 Rebecca Can’t Access the
CoDesign Journal

Print Only Subscription: $98/annually

Online Subscription: $252/annually
Central Design Problem

If ordinary people
are a crucial part
of the participatory design process,
then why aren’t we sharing
our research findings
with them?
Central Design Problem
The growBot Symposium
was conducted by a public university,
supported in part by public funding.
Why isn’t publicly-funded
research freely available to
the public?

* Supported in Part by National Science Foundation Grant #ISE-0741685

Central Design Problem
We live in the age of
digital communications ... why
aren’t we using these tools ?
What role can digital media
play in suggesting
new tools
to talk about codesign?

* Supported in Part by National Science Foundation Grant #ISE-0741685

WE BEGAN WITH THE
COOKBOOK
 COOKBOOK S
def: A collection of streamlined instructions, definitions, techniques
COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS
A curated collection of information from experts and non-experts,
standardized and published in a single location
 HOW COULD WE REMEDIATE
THE FORMAT OF THE
COMMUNITY COOKBOOK
TO COMMUNICATE CODESIGN PRINCIPLES?
 A RESEARCH-BASED
DESIGN METHODOLOGY
1. LITERATURE REVIEW
 Literature Review
Binder, Thomas; Brandt, Eva. (2008). The Design: Lab as platform in participatory design research. CoDesign, June 2008, Vol.
4, Issue 2, pg. 115-129.

Björgvinsson, Erling Bjarki. (2008). Open-ended participatory design as prototypical practice. CoDesign, June 2008, Vol. 4,
Issue 2, pg. 85-99.

Brereton, Margot; Burr, Jacob. (2008) New challenges for design participation in the era of ubiquitous computing. CoDesign,
June 2008, Vol. 4, Issue 2, pg. 101-113.

Brodersen, Christina; Dindler, Christian; Iversen, Ole Sejer. (2008) Staging imaginative places for participatory prototyping.
CoDesign, March 2008,Vol. 4, Issue 1, pg. 19-30 placeholder
Ehn, Pelle. (2008). Participating in Design Things. Participatory design: Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on
Participatory Design 2008, 92-101.

Pretty, Jules N. (1995). Participatory Learning for Sustainable Agriculture. World Development, Vol. 23, No. 8, pg. 1247-1263.

Rudd, Tim. (2009). Reimagining outdoor learning spaces. FutureLab publication, January 2009. Retrieved on October 7, 2010
from: http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications-reports-articles/handbooks/Handbook1187

Sanders, Elizabeth B. -N.; Stappers, Pieter Jan. (2008). Co-creation and the new landscapes of design. CoDesign, March 2008,
Vol. 4, Issue 1, pg. 5-18

Lee, Yanki. (2008). Design participation tactics: the challenges and new roles for designers in the co-design process.
CoDesign, March 2008, Vol. 4, Issue1, pg. 31-50.
 2. Transcription

Definitions, Concepts,
Quotes, Diagrams, Tactics
and other Key Findings were
transcribed onto notecards,
carefully labeled with
citations and divisions of
content
3. Card Sorting
4. A Site Map Emerges
5. Custom CMS Built

* Why didn’t I upgrade to 3.1.1? Several plugins had yet to be updated for the new version.
6. Custom Citation Taxonomy
7. Tags Enable Browsing By
Topic
8. Custom HTML5 Theme
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