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Scaling up co-design: research projects as design things

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In this paper we reflect on our experiences in a project where academic researchers and social change organizations are working together to explore how participatory and co-design practices can be disseminated and spread within the 'third sector'. The research project is itself co-designed and co-produced, but within various constraints arising from research funding models. We explore both our immediate outputs and our learning about successful co-research models for this challenge.

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    PDC '14: Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts - Volume 2
    October 2014
    278 pages
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    DOI:10.1145/2662155
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    1. design thing
    2. participatory research
    3. scaling
    4. social change

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    October 6 - 10, 2014
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    • (2022)Processes of ProliferationProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34928606:GROUP(1-22)Online publication date: 14-Jan-2022
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