OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Codesign-International Journal of Cocreation in Design and the Arts is 2. 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
Feminist reflexivity and community-engaged design: an autoethnography	20
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
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
Convivial aesthetic in social innovation: a nested framework from three projects in Milano	9
‘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
Governing through design: the politics of participation in neoliberal cities	8
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
Co-creating solutions with social housing users: a Living lab case	7
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
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
‘ความอุ่นใจ (Kharm Unn Jai)’: honouring transcultural experiences in supporting women	5
Interdisciplinary hackathons for community-based co-design with older adults: a case study	5
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
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
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
On diversity, pluriversality and decolonisation in design research	2
Designing amidst uncertainty: drifting and byproducts in the intersection of anthropology and computer science	2
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