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A Co-model for Research Through Co-design

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The ‘collaborative model’ (co-model) is a modeling of the Research Through Co-design (RTC) that is based on a new methodology that uses the control system theory as an intuitive language for defining RTC as an essential key. Closed-loop control system theory is discussed and used to identify the most complex parts of the RTC system such as the human-collaborative approaches and processes during the development of the research question. This collaborative model improves the state-of-art in RTC ensuring quality and efficiency for the knowledge acquisition. This allows practitioners, researchers, human factor experts doing RTC using a collaborative model and co-logical aids to find the desirable research answer.

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    Despite the fact that in the last decade co-design seems to be a more and more applied approach in several disciplines, the authors would emphasize the value of co-design in bringing together different actors also if not trained in design or in research. The authors argue that designing has also the potential in keeping together people with very different backgrounds and trainings. Also, according the RTC concept exposed in this paper, all these actors could create a different influence in the research process and in the research answer; and it is an adding value for the whole process.

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  1. Design Research Lab, Department of Humanities, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Daniele Busciantella Ricci

  2. Department of Product Development, Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Sofia Scataglini

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  1. Architecture Department, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Pescara, Italy

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  2. Emilio Rossi Design Consulting, Ortona, Chieti, Italy

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  3. Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Thomas Alexander

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Busciantella Ricci, D., Scataglini, S. (2020). A Co-model for Research Through Co-design. In: Di Nicolantonio, M., Rossi, E., Alexander, T. (eds) Advances in Additive Manufacturing, Modeling Systems and 3D Prototyping. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 975. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20216-3_55

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