Co-design reconfigured as a tool for youth wellbeing and education: a community collaboration case study
Abstract
In the Community Collaboration reported in this paper co-design was `reconfigured' as a means for supporting youth wellbeing and educational outcomes for young people, including capability, confidence and connections that can contribute to longer-term wellbeing benefits within a particular community. While Participatory Design has always been an approach that shapes situations of the future and the capacities and skills needed to realize those, `co-design' as promoted within the public sector in New Zealand and Australia has tended to position co-design as a means for delivering new "designs". Less emphasis has been placed on the benefits of mutual learning that it produces, including new skills and capacities needed to action change. This paper shares how these additional and significant outcomes of participatory practice have been pursued and made visible within a specific case study.
