OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Codesign-International Journal of Cocreation in Design and the Arts is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
From virtual reality to virtual safaris: new form of participatory design in an architectural design project	28
The ‘Other Talk’: a co-design study of board games for cross-generational communication of life-and-death issues	27
Feminist reflexivity and community-engaged design: an autoethnography	25
Cultural preservation, social cohesion or economic benefits? Unpacking the motivations of public participation in China’s historical settlement regeneration	16
Extending temporalities in design: designing pluriversal futures	12
Governing through design: the politics of participation in neoliberal cities	11
Convivial aesthetic in social innovation: a nested framework from three projects in Milano	10
InstantProbes: a new approach to cultural probes method	9
Co-designing a housing and livelihood toolkit with low-income older people for future housing in Klong Toey, Bangkok, Thailand	9
‘It is not rocket science but it can change our lives’: pluriversal design with FabLab Nepal at a spinal injury clinic	9
A worldbuilding approach for pluriversality in codesign	8
Minga as a placemaking tool in peripheral neighbourhoods. Co-design experience in Calderon, Quito ^*	8
Technical breakdown: breaching experiment-workshops in university lectures	7
Towards architectural design empowerment: analysis of the Solidary Mobile Housing project’s rationale through Theory of Change in Direct Design Empowerment Framework	7
Co-creating an Ecology of Design Briefs for people with respiratory disease	7
Weaving with play practices: developing a playful autoethnography	6
Spontaneous acts of everyday co-creation: somaesthetic study of affective placemaking in the case of Durga Puja, Kolkata	5
‘ความอุ่นใจ (Kharm Unn Jai)’: honouring transcultural experiences in supporting women	5
Crafting emotional narratives: autoethnography as a tool for reflexive inquiry in healthcare codesign practice during COVID-19	5
The co-design of building deep retrofitting in distressed urban areas: lessons from e-SAFE	5
Applying co-design in social VR	5
Co-creating solutions with social housing users: a Living lab case	5
Interdisciplinary hackathons for community-based co-design with older adults: a case study	5
Recalibrating co-design through positionality-in-action: the ReCoDe approach	5
Co-design for transitions: developing genuine participatory approaches to involving lifeworld and system participants	4

Creating the conditions for collaborative decision-making in co-design	4
Exploring an ANT-inspired mapping approach for embedded design practitioners: a case-informed process	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
Re-envisioning a community hub in a US women’s prison: reflections on a trauma-informed co-design (TICo-D) and service-learning process	4
Untangling the participation buzz in urban place-making: mechanisms and effects	4
Becoming a co-designer: the change in participants’ perceived self-efficacy during a co-design process	4
Co-designing with scarcity in self- organised urban environments: a case of Shekilango commercial street in Sinza, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania	4
Let’s join the toy inventors: designing an inclusive collaborative play toy with and for autistic children	4
Design redistribution: the role and involvement of craftsmen in the embodiment of design in the Indonesian rattan furniture industry	4
An evaluation theory for participatory design: Design Empowerment Framework (DEF)	4
Rethinking project boundaries in architectural practice: attempts at ‘giving back’ in recent work by LMN Architects	4
Disentangling collaborative design for sustainability	4
Homing into school to create the ideal classroom: young people want to combine the best of home and school learning environments	4
On diversity, pluriversality and decolonisation in design research	3
How designers navigate collaboration in design practices: an interview study of professional designers in the United States	3
The process of value setting through co-design: the case of La Borda , Barcelona	3
Coping Compass: co-designing a brief online positive psychology programme for youth with chronic conditions	3
A contemporary framework for probing in social design: on continuous dialogues and community building	3
Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design	3
Co-design, neighbourhood sharing, and commoning through urban living labs	3
Rigorous and always from the heart: what personas did in the process of designing a youth care facility	3
Diverse viewpoints on tactical urbanism in vacant lots: a collaborative design with young planner candidates in Türkiye	3
Sustaining volunteer and pro bono technical partner engagement in community-led co-design projects	3
Facilitating co-design among older adults in a digital setting: methodological challenges and opportunities	3
Designing amidst uncertainty: drifting and byproducts in the intersection of anthropology and computer science	3
Pragmatic co-design methodology: a tale of university and retirement village friendship	3