Co-design
A collection of resources, methods, tools, and materials to facilitate participatory co-design practices and to help projects find the direction they need. Co-creation and open design techniques allow others to make creative contributions in the solution of a specific problem.
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lowercase is a design lab and studio partnering with community-led organizations to co-design and craft accessible, impactful civic tools rooted in data and lived experience.
Institut für Partizipatives Gestalten
Wir begleiten Transformations- und Gestaltungsprozesse!
Futurall
Futurall uses collective imagination to navigate complex systems
Intersectional Spaces of Participation: Inclusive, Resilient, Embedded (INSPIRE)
Re-imagining Democracy with Europe’s Diverse Communities
The Situate AI Guidebook: Co-Designing a Toolkit to Support Multi-Stakeholder Early-stage Deliberations Around Public Sector AI Proposals
By Anna Kawakami, Amanda Coston, Haiyi Zhu, Hoda Heidari, Kenneth Holstein
Global Trends in Government Innovation 2024
This report analyses nearly 800 case studies from 83 countries and identifies five critical trends in government innovation that are reshaping public services.
UrbanistAI
The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.
When 'doing ethics' meets public procurement of smart city technology – an Amsterdam case study
[A] multi-stakeholder co-design project – including a citizen panel – is an integral part of the process in which the service is designed and realized
New Practice Lab
The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the...
Policy Lab UK
Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
Seattle By Design
A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership betw...
Center for Human Services Research at University at Albany SUNY
CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York St...
Collaborative Indigenous Research
The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.
Design Ethnography Lab
This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cu...
Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) – A Refugee Led Initiative
Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) is a refugee-founded and led organisation, which began in 2016 as community-based initiative in Rhino Camp refugee settlement West Nile region of Uganda
City of Philadelphia Service Design Studio
Collaborating with Philadelphians to design better City policies and services.
Center for New Democratic Processes
The Jefferson Center is a nonpartisan organization committed to advancing democratic, citizen-driven solutions to community and public issues.
La 27e Région
New innovation methods for designing public policy involving all public stakeholders
LABIC
LABIC are a series of labs aimed at fostering civic innovation in Ibero-America, in order to boost social transformation, democratic governance, and social, cultural and economic development.
Catalpa
Designing a more equitable world
Streetmix
Civic engagement for street design