Studies using co-design methods require the meaningful involvement of stakeholders in
creating new knowledge and harnessing, mobilising, and transferring existing knowledge to …

Relational sensitivity involves attuning to subtle and complex collaborative dynamics and
plays an important role in participatory design (PD) processes. PD practitioners, including …

This Special Issue of five empirical papers delves into the realm of co-design, a participatory
approach to policy development similar to co-production that aims to engage diverse …

Following the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom's Department for Food, Environment
and Rural Affairs (Defra) began to" co-design" a new agri-environment policy for England …

The rise of digital democracy calls for innovative approaches to bridging participation gaps
and addressing power dynamics. This study explores Participatory Design (PD) as a tool for …

Design today is tackling increasingly complex societal issues; however, it is also prone to
instrumentalisation in this endeavour. This paper examines how design practice and …

Co-design practices have been used for decades to support participatory engagement in
design work. However, despite a wide range of materials that describe the design and …

This paper argues how communicative planning approaches, as one of the most dominant
conceptualisations of participatory planning, often ignore the embodied dimensions of …

Research'to be published in Volume 88 of Design Studies alongside the paper 'Global
Diversity in Design Research', which was published in Volume 88. Although accepted for …

The potential contributions of participatory design towards current problems of digital
democracy platforms are investigated in this research. Literature review, thematic analysis …