As co-design is increasingly adopted into new contexts under different constraints and expectations, practitioners who are doing design in socially engaged ways often experience tensions between a need to deliver short term outputs versus having impact on meaningful and sustainable social outcomes. Understanding our personal orientations and beliefs about this tension is important because of the potential for real world impacts and implications on potential futures.
If you are someone committed to designing with and not for, this is an invitation for you. Together, we’ll embark on a collective journey to explore emergence, relationality and long-time thinking. This session will offer a range of experiences and provocations that will help us imagine new ways we might engage in co-design, and examine what it asks of each of us to shift our conceptions of time and pacing in our design practices.
Presented by Leander Kreltszheim (Monash University) and Allison Edwards (Centre for Public Impact)
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