Part One: Co-design Interview + analysis essay
750 words individual reflective essay
The first component is an interview and an analysis its value. We would like you to conduct an
interview that provides your project with additional research and demonstrates co-design principles.
For the interview essay, we would like you to:
1. Conduct an interview with someone you can relate in some way to your collaborative
project. This can be anyone: a sociologist, anthropologist, designer, gardener, scientist.
2. You do not need to reproduce the whole interview but we would like you to write about
your experience of the interview and assess its contribution to your project.
3. Discuss why you chose the person you did – how did that person relate to your project?
4. How did the interview give you a useful & professional context to the subject matter?
5. How did your interview add another perspective to your studio project? Did you gain a
new perspective? An expert knowledge? Did it support/validate your project?
Part Two: Collaboration Visual Essay
Category:
1. Problem
2. Research
3. Development
4. Outcome
Each member picks a category area to write on,
then writes about the following areas with regards to chosen category.
Context worked in
Roles of each collaborator
Successes and Pitfalls of collaboration
Role of Co-Design
The second component is a reflective visualisation of the whole project including your co-design
research process. You will need to include the problem, your research, the development and the
outcome. Think of this as an exercise where you get the opportunity to work through your process
of working collaboratively in a visual way. You can do this typographically, photographically,
illustratively or in the form of a comic strip: whatever is appropriate to the project itself.
We would like you to:
1. Identify the collaborative environment /project you worked in/on.
2. Visualise what made it a collaboration? What roles did you each play? Illustrate how the
project developed in stages, describing the value of the interview at the research stage.
3. What was successful in this collaboration? Why? What were the pitfalls of the
collaboration? What would you have done differently and why?
4. What role did co-design play in relation to your project – was it central to your project or
peripheral?
Next PPD Seminar 19Mar 11.30am - 1.00pm
we shall discuss further when we meet next week.
Hmm sounds interesting....... I guess we can sort out the parts to write about when we are next all together!
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