Abstract
Co-creation has been adopted in many recent design and innovation projects, bringing different stakeholders together and creating a shared understanding and new ideas through creative and participative approaches. Despite this increasing popularity, there is still a lack of a systematic understanding of key dimensions and design choices in co-creation projects due to contextual complexity and contingencies. In this paper, we develop the design choices framework for co-creation projects as a result of analyzing 13 co-creation projects from multiple fields, including design research, process innovation and service innovation. The design choices framework provides us with vocabularies that help to explain what kinds of dimensions co-creation projects are built on, what influences the formulation of co-creation projects and what informs the selection and development of methods. The framework also helps to assess and plan co-creation projects. We introduce ten design choices identified from the cross-case analysis and discuss their dynamic interrelations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 15-31 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | International Journal of Design |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2018 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Funding
This research was conducted at Aalto University by the multidisciplinary research team of the ATLAS project. ATLAS was funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation Tekes and Aalto University, which are gratefully acknowledged. We would like to thank our researcher colleagues in the ATLAS project, Kirsikka Vaajakallio, Juha Kronqvist, Olivier Irrmann and Otso Hannula, for their significant contribution to the development of the framework. We also warmly thank the committed representatives of the companies and public organizations in the ATLAS Consortium as well as the distinguished members of the international ATLAS Scientific Advisory Board for their active participation and valuable input to the research. Jung-Joo Lee gratefully acknowledges the Singaporean Ministry of Education's Start-Up Grant funding support for the publication process, Grant number: R-298-000-007-133.
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Keywords
- Co-creation
- Design Choices
- Design for Service
- SERVICE DESIGN
- TRANSFORMATION
- BOUNDARIES
- KNOWLEDGE
- OBJECTS
- LOGIC
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