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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The ‘Other Talk’: a co-design study of board games for cross-generational communication of life-and-death issues	23
Cultural preservation, social cohesion or economic benefits? Unpacking the motivations of public participation in China’s historical settlement regeneration	22
From virtual reality to virtual safaris: new form of participatory design in an architectural design project	22
Feminist reflexivity and community-engaged design: an autoethnography	22
Extending temporalities in design: designing pluriversal futures	18
A worldbuilding approach for pluriversality in codesign	16
Minga as a placemaking tool in peripheral neighbourhoods. Co-design experience in Calderon, Quito ^*	10
‘It is not rocket science but it can change our lives’: pluriversal design with FabLab Nepal at a spinal injury clinic	10
Governing through design: the politics of participation in neoliberal cities	10
Co-designing a housing and livelihood toolkit with low-income older people for future housing in Klong Toey, Bangkok, Thailand	10
Convivial aesthetic in social innovation: a nested framework from three projects in Milano	10
InstantProbes: a new approach to cultural probes method	10
Crafting emotional narratives: autoethnography as a tool for reflexive inquiry in healthcare codesign practice during COVID-19	9
Weaving with play practices: developing a playful autoethnography	9
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 an Ecology of Design Briefs for people with respiratory disease	8
Local adequacy as a design strategy in place-based making	7
‘ความอุ่นใจ (Kharm Unn Jai)’: honouring transcultural experiences in supporting women	7
The co-design of building deep retrofitting in distressed urban areas: lessons from e-SAFE	7
Interdisciplinary hackathons for community-based co-design with older adults: a case study	6
Spontaneous acts of everyday co-creation: somaesthetic study of affective placemaking in the case of Durga Puja, Kolkata	6
Applying co-design in social VR	5
Co-creating solutions with social housing users: a Living lab case	5
Co-designing with scarcity in self- organised urban environments: a case of Shekilango commercial street in Sinza, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania	5
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
An evaluation theory for participatory design: Design Empowerment Framework (DEF)	4
Disentangling collaborative design for sustainability	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
Homing into school to create the ideal classroom: young people want to combine the best of home and school learning environments	3
Untangling the participation buzz in urban place-making: mechanisms and effects	3
Rethinking project boundaries in architectural practice: attempts at ‘giving back’ in recent work by LMN Architects	3
Co-design for transitions: developing genuine participatory approaches to involving lifeworld and system participants	3
How designers navigate collaboration in design practices: an interview study of professional designers in the United States	3
Re-envisioning a community hub in a US women’s prison: reflections on a trauma-informed co-design (TICo-D) and service-learning process	3
Design redistribution: the role and involvement of craftsmen in the embodiment of design in the Indonesian rattan furniture industry	3
Becoming a co-designer: the change in participants’ perceived self-efficacy during a co-design process	3
Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design	3