International projects
CO.Create: CO.Design Education and Training for Creative Professionals
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.12.02 |
Social sciences |
Architecture and Design |
Design (Industrial, Visual) |
Researchers (1)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
51216 |
PhD Barbara Predan |
Architecture and Design |
Head |
2016 - 2019 |
282 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
CO. Design is an approach to design attempting to actively involve all stakeholders (e.g. employees, partners, customers, citizens, end users) in the design process to help ensure the result meets their needs and is usable. CO. Design is focused on processes and procedures of design and not a design style. As more creative professionals use Co. Design, the need for students and graduates to be educated in the CO.Design process increases. According to the Eurokleis online survey (2010) there is a lack of teaching skills in that field. 69% of CCI professionals agree that entrepreneurial skills like CO.Design are not acquired during the period of education.
The purpose of this project is to understand the current state of CO.design pracitic methods through a indepth SWOT analysis of best practice. Based on the findings a Co.Design Curriculum will be developed, implemented in a hands-on work based Co-Design training, which is tested in Austria, Denmark, Slovakia and Spain by trained CO-Design trainers under various socio-economic and socio-cultural context in order to make it broadly transferable to design universities and other design teaching providers.
The Co-Design curriculum will take the learning outcome approach into account and will be adapted to EQF's criteria for validation to guarantee high quality and transferability. The work based CO.Design training will be based on the following principles: learning from each other, learning from best practice, learning together and implementing the learned skills and competences into the production of real products or services co.designed by the trained designer and the user. This work based learning approach will especially assist in teaching, learning and practicing very relevant transversal skills in the CO. Design process: creativity, innovation, communication, cooperation, team work and problem solving. Produced learning materials are made available as Open educational repository. Through the application of an open common license the open learning materials are allowed to be sustainably reused, permanently reviewed and further developed through the target group of designers itself.
