Co-design
Co-design is a participatory process based on equal collaboration between participants affected by, or attempting to, solve a particular challenge. The co-design approach enables a wide range of users/customers/business/stakeholders to make a creative contribution in the formulation of a solution for a specific challenge. A key component of co-design is that participants, as 'experts' of their own experience, become central to the design process.
My expertise is based on co-design processes I have developed and facilitated with communities, organizations and their stakeholders across Europe and Northern Africa at the Migrationlab Foundation since 2015.
Co-design: a powerful tool to create solutions with users and stakeholders
Research: identify and understand real needs and growth opportunities
Co-design strategy development
Workshop facilitation
Methodology: design thinking, creative design, storytelling, creative activities, and group discussions.
Skills
Co-design sessions for Migrationlab
Working with communities of migrants, refugees and locals to co-design spaces of encounter
under the form of public living rooms.
Di Fang, Urbanist and Architectural Designer
“The switching table is really a nice method to stimulate people's ideas. We were not only talking, but also making and designing in short time. It is great to see how efficient can a workshop be!”
Julia, Artist
“What surprised me about this workshop was how people who didn’t know each other were engaged in interesting tasks and could really co-design the living room, speak about own visions and needs openly, sharing experience, etc.”
Co-design sessions for Ormston House, Ireland
Co-designing solutions with Ormston House’s project team to improve collaboration with their communities.
Co-design sessions for the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Tunisia
Co-designing solutions with local government representatives from Northern Africa and Middle East about communication on migration at city level.
Co-design sessions at the Design in the Middle Workshop, MAXXI Museum in Rome
I worked with designers, architects and creatives from Middle East to generate future scenarios that can solve certain challenges in the Middle East through design. I coordinated the Nomadentity group that addressed challenges such as open borders, immigration, dignity and identity, self-respect, self-identification. Speaker, as part of an international panel of designers, at the public event that officially closed the workshop.
Speaker at the Domus Academy / BASE Milano
I shared the stage with award winning design critic and New York Times contributor Alice Rawsthorn; architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri; and designers Matylda Krzykowski and Jing He in a discussion that challenged perceptions and showcased ideas on the past, current and future sustainability of the topic of 'local' in design.