The co-design participatory power pyramid

Winton, Euan and Rodgers, Paul (2024) The co-design participatory power pyramid. In: Design Research Society Conference 2024, 2024-06-23 - 2024-06-28, Northeastern University. (https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.459)

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Abstract

This paper presents an innovative co-design participatory power pyramid, which foregrounds how people living with dementia (PLWD) are (and can be) involved in co-design projects. The pyramid provides a scale of participant involvement in co-design activities based on the premise that design is a process that encom-passes a series of interlinked activities, actions, and thinking that, when com-bined, result in a designed outcome. The co-design participatory power pyramid has been created to define and better understand the spectrum of co-design projects when working with PLWD. However, it is anticipated that the frame-work will be applicable to other co-design research practices. The pyramid makes explicit the differences between co-design projects labelled as ‘to’, ‘for’, ‘with’ and ‘by’. The paper provides rich examples to highlight how the framework is an appropriate tool as it encourages self-empowerment in collaboration and inde-pendence in action that are perceived to be aspirational in co-design activities.

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Winton, Euan and Rodgers, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3149-191X;
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