OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Codesign-International Journal of Cocreation in Design and the Arts is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The ‘Other Talk’: a co-design study of board games for cross-generational communication of life-and-death issues	22
Cultural preservation, social cohesion or economic benefits? Unpacking the motivations of public participation in China’s historical settlement regeneration	20
From virtual reality to virtual safaris: new form of participatory design in an architectural design project	20
Feminist reflexivity and community-engaged design: an autoethnography	20
Extending temporalities in design: designing pluriversal futures	17
InstantProbes: a new approach to cultural probes method	15
A worldbuilding approach for pluriversality in codesign	10
‘It is not rocket science but it can change our lives’: pluriversal design with FabLab Nepal at a spinal injury clinic	9
Co-designing a housing and livelihood toolkit with low-income older people for future housing in Klong Toey, Bangkok, Thailand	9
Convivial aesthetic in social innovation: a nested framework from three projects in Milano	9
Minga as a placemaking tool in peripheral neighbourhoods. Co-design experience in Calderon, Quito ^*	8
Towards architectural design empowerment: analysis of the Solidary Mobile Housing project’s rationale through Theory of Change in Direct Design Empowerment Framework	8
Governing through design: the politics of participation in neoliberal cities	8
Co-creating an Ecology of Design Briefs for people with respiratory disease	7
Crafting emotional narratives: autoethnography as a tool for reflexive inquiry in healthcare codesign practice during COVID-19	7
Co-creating solutions with social housing users: a Living lab case	7
The co-design of building deep retrofitting in distressed urban areas: lessons from e-SAFE	6
Co-designing with scarcity in self- organised urban environments: a case of Shekilango commercial street in Sinza, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania	6
Interdisciplinary hackathons for community-based co-design with older adults: a case study	5
‘ความอุ่นใจ (Kharm Unn Jai)’: honouring transcultural experiences in supporting women	5
Local adequacy as a design strategy in place-based making	4
Creating the conditions for collaborative decision-making in co-design	4
Let’s join the toy inventors: designing an inclusive collaborative play toy with and for autistic children	4
Community-based design through the enactive concept of participatory sense-making: the case of water care in the Moravia neighbourhood of Medellín, Colombia	4
Spontaneous acts of everyday co-creation: somaesthetic study of affective placemaking in the case of Durga Puja, Kolkata	4

Homing into school to create the ideal classroom: young people want to combine the best of home and school learning environments	4
Design redistribution: the role and involvement of craftsmen in the embodiment of design in the Indonesian rattan furniture industry	3
An evaluation theory for participatory design: Design Empowerment Framework (DEF)	3
Co-design for transitions: developing genuine participatory approaches to involving lifeworld and system participants	3
Rethinking project boundaries in architectural practice: attempts at ‘giving back’ in recent work by LMN Architects	3
Becoming a co-designer: the change in participants’ perceived self-efficacy during a co-design process	3
The process of value setting through co-design: the case of La Borda , Barcelona	2
Co-design, neighbourhood sharing, and commoning through urban living labs	2
The imagination and public participation: a Deweyan perspective on the potential of design innovation and participatory design in policy-making	2
Facilitating co-design among older adults in a digital setting: methodological challenges and opportunities	2
Rigorous and always from the heart: what personas did in the process of designing a youth care facility	2
How designers navigate collaboration in design practices: an interview study of professional designers in the United States	2
Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design	2
Co-designing of public space for urban design students using citizen-generated data	2
On diversity, pluriversality and decolonisation in design research	2
Designing amidst uncertainty: drifting and byproducts in the intersection of anthropology and computer science	2
Applied visual art for codesign: three case studies of emergent practices	1
A contemporary framework for probing in social design: on continuous dialogues and community building	1
Local contexts as alternative knowing spaces for design fields	1
Permeance . A demodern artistic process for more-than-human collaborative practices in Participatory Design	1
Pragmatic co-design methodology: a tale of university and retirement village friendship	1
An autoethnography of quasi-autoethnographies: seeding an impact-oriented complex collaborative research ecosystem	1
Co-designing public policy in high-income colonial-settler countries – a systematic review	1
No player left behind: exploring the use of collaborative talk in a playfixing activity	1
“We are all just humans participating”: the role of an embodied approach, virtual space and artistic media in shaping participants’ experience in a co–design process	1
Diverse viewpoints on tactical urbanism in vacant lots: a collaborative design with young planner candidates in Türkiye	1
Direct vs. remote data collection methods in co-design: navigating the evolving landscape	1
Towards a framework for urban landscape co-design: Linking the participation ladder and the design cycle	1
Healing fabulations: a dialogic methodology for digital codesign in health research	1
Collective wondering: enabling productive uncertainty in agroecological codesign	0
Relational sensitivity in participatory design	0
Co-design and civic governance: self and others in a dispute over urban infrastructure	0
Exploring the future of fashion design education for generation Z through ‘Co-design as community-based participatory research’	0
A design team’s perspective-mixing for shared empathic understandings	0
Facilitating co-design in healthcare: a collaborative autoethnography of personalities, power, and competing priorities	0
Co-designing for First Nations leadership in land management: listening to stories, designing for experience, and advocating for change	0
Participatory design meets gender equality at European higher education institutions	0
Towards a radically inclusive design – indigenous story-telling as codesign methodology	0
Virtual reality environment-based collaborative exploration of fashion design	0
A consent for myself/ourselves: designing for responsible use of autoethnography	0
Towards pluriversality: decolonising design research and practices	0
Codesign principles for the effective development of digital heritage extended reality systems for health interventions in rural communities	0
Policy Puzzle Game: making policy ideas feasible and acceptable in policy co-design	0
Design thinking, wicked problems and institutioning change: a case study	0
An exploratory study of using speculative artefacts in co-design	0
Infrastructuring ethical use of surveillance technology in dementia care	0
Growers Without Borders : community and remote sensing of encounters with nature	0
Integrating children’s perspectives in urban planning through future workshops and virtual reality	0
Supporting collaborative biodesign ideation with contextualised knowledge from bioscience	0
Designing for reimagined communities	0

Designing patient education tools: co-creation of infographics to support the hospitalisation process for individuals with severe chronic respiratory conditions	0
Dynamics of sustained co-design in Urban Living Labs	0
A model of programmatic co-design with teachers: five factors for success	0
Integrating and producing evidence through participatory design	0
Purta ngkarrama (In dialogue together): co-designing and co-learning in Ntaria	0
Towards architectural design empowerment: an analysis of the Solidary Mobile Housing project’s development process through Theory of Action in Direct Design Empowerment Framework	0
Co-designing Australia’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2021–2031: a realist evaluation	0
Co-designing augmented reality: exploring the role of boundary negotiating artifacts	0
Participatory prototyping for learning: an exploration of expansive learning in a long-term urban participatory design process	0
Whom do we include and when? participatory design with vulnerable groups	0
Gaze and identity: unpacking the dynamics of social design in Chinese rural contexts through autoethnography	0
Co-design challenges: exploring collaborative rationality and design thinking in the urban design process	0
Navigating hybrid remote data collection methods (RDCM) in co-design with older adults: exploring roles, opportunities, and trade-offs	0
Co-crafting the social: material manifestations through collaborative crafts	0
A grounded pattern language: testing a methodology for exploring cohousing residents’ involvement in shared outdoor spaces	0
Co-design with children, families, and educators for understanding children’s digital life-worlds for play and learning	0
Being a sociable designer: reimagining the role of designers in social innovation	0
Layers of technology in pluriversal design decolonising language technology with the live language initiative	0
Multi-person social network position analysis in co-design projects through digital platforms	0
A Context-based Design Toolkit (CoDeT) for Socially Assistive Robots (SARs): a methodological approach	0
Project-based communities: lessons learned from collaborative city-making experiences	0
Let’s take a new perspective!: a pedagogical probe study for digging into the empathic perspective-taking of design teachers	0
Tomorrow stories: autoethnographic futuring and possibilities for co-design	0
Accessibility and participatory design: time, power, and facilitation	0
A systematic literature review on co-design education and preparing future designers for their role in co-design	0
Reimagining co-design on Country as a relational and transformational practice	0
Co-design with parents and designers: developing packaging concepts for children	0
Tropical vibes with peoples from Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta: dialogic reflection in joint inquiries as feelthinking-doing in design practice and research	0
Consumer feedback: ethicising with humour in a product review workshop	0
Assemblage-based stakeholder analysis in design: a conceptual framework through the lenses of post–anthropocentrism	0
Overcoming trust barriers in RDCM: the efficacy of psychographic co-design in qualitative data collection	0
Planetary plate puzzle: a serious game for deliberating sufficient future diets	0
Beyond polarisation: reimagining communities through the imperfect act of ontologising	0
Co-designing an inclusive bus stop for a tourist transportation hub	0
Dress-up doll experiments: codesign with children to drift into the world of play and exceed research questions	0
Participation reimagined: co-design of the self through territory, memory, and dignity	0
Nextpit Scenario Vision (NSV): a co-design method of future scenario transition and integrating stakeholders for intelligent cockpits	0
In conversation with ghosts: towards a hauntological approach to decolonial design for/with AI practices	0
Walking alone, together participatory design as orchestrating between remoteness and situatedness in decision-making	0
One to one: 2 project experiences and analysis of 3 codesign tools	0
Young 2.0: advancing an inclusive framework for co-creating futures with youth	0
Participatory design to address common challenges in digital democracy in a remote and asynchronous setting: a case study of a citizen participation platform for the Seoul Metropolitan Library	0
Indigenous relations: craft, vernacular materials and cultural assets in Borneo	0
Pluralistic methods in codesign: a co-speculation play method for feminist Utopias in urban Türkiye*	0
Bridging the gap between the individual and the group: the education of attention in design	0
‘Hello, I’m me’: an autoethnographical account of blurring identities as a health researcher	0
Plant Hotels: designing the imaginary foundations of communities	0
Dissonance and diplomacy: coordination of conflicting values in urban co-design	0
Bringing the autistic lifeworld to supportive technology design: an enactive approach	0
How design professionals learn within collaborative research projects	0
The communities and materials of repair: collectively reflecting on repair practices of everyday artefacts	0
‘Noted, but not interested’: critical collaborative autoethnography and the local politics of belonging	0
A feminist server stack: co-designing feminist web servers to reimagine Internet futures	0
Designers roles in civic pedagogies of co-making: lessons from the Global South and North	0
Collaborative critical making in higher education: a case study of a community-centred storytelling effort to transform harmful narratives of gun violence in Boston	0
Post-its, postcards, and dream clouds: exploring participatory design methods as avenues to capture rural youth voices	0
Thinging with the past: co-designing a slow road network by mediating between the historical landscape and the design space	0
Reframing temporalities of social design: a duoethnographic reflection in hindsight	0
Rethinking the value of care: a case study of sub-micro-level co-design with Scottish care workers	0
Radical design praxis and the problematics of intent	0
Co-designing in the middle: supporting adults with intellectual disabilities to meaningfully participate in design	0