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Five questions when you’re planning workshops
Why, who, how, what, where: a simple framework to design workshops that actually achieve what’s needed.
Mapping public sector innovation labs
Innovation labs excel at reframing problems collaboratively but face significant hurdles scaling solutions and embedding practices within government systems.
From mouthset to mindset
Co-design and systems change language is widespread. What shifts do these approaches truly require in practice?
What is co-design?
Not everything should be co-designed. We distinguish co-design from consultation, human-centred design, and other lookalike approaches.
Leadership for co-design or leadership of co-design?
What do you do when your team doesn’t want to co-design? You need to shift from leadership of co-design to leadership for it.
Co-design and the guiding role of purpose
We discuss the shades and challenges of co-design and systemic design, and why clarity of purpose might matter more than the label itself.
Systemic Design Practice Wheel
A framework guiding practitioners to approach complex problems through five core domains: principles, place, people, process and practice.
Co-Design Maturity Model
A strengths-based framework for mapping individual, team and organisational maturity in co-design practice across five development levels.
Learning by doing: lessons from new hobbies
Why safe spaces for experimentation matter more than perfect demonstrations when learning new skills and applying them at work.
Co-design teams and roles
Build effective co-design teams by understanding the essential roles and structures to bring together diverse perspectives for creating meaningful change.
Four principles for effective co-design
Purpose, collaboration, shared power and adaptive learning create the perfect recipe for co-designing meaningful change.
Shades of co-design
Identify the scale, extent and depth of co-design with three ways of asking: “how much co-design is there?”
Behind the scenes of our new identity
The strategic process and creative collaboration behind transforming Emma Blomkamp and CoDesignCo into New Know How.
Making global local through design
A bite-sized overview of our paper on local government, co-design and community engagement.
A crisis is not an excuse
Australia’s COVIDSafe app failed because it prioritised technical solutions over community engagement, trust-building, and securing genuine social licence.
Co-design co-defined
A deep dive into the meaning of co-design, and how games might help us be better at it.