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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The ‘Other Talk’: a co-design study of board games for cross-generational communication of life-and-death issues	24
Feminist reflexivity and community-engaged design: an autoethnography	24
From virtual reality to virtual safaris: new form of participatory design in an architectural design project	22
Cultural preservation, social cohesion or economic benefits? Unpacking the motivations of public participation in China’s historical settlement regeneration	22
Extending temporalities in design: designing pluriversal futures	19
A worldbuilding approach for pluriversality in codesign	17
‘It is not rocket science but it can change our lives’: pluriversal design with FabLab Nepal at a spinal injury clinic	13
Co-designing a housing and livelihood toolkit with low-income older people for future housing in Klong Toey, Bangkok, Thailand	10
Minga as a placemaking tool in peripheral neighbourhoods. Co-design experience in Calderon, Quito ^*	10
Convivial aesthetic in social innovation: a nested framework from three projects in Milano	10
Governing through design: the politics of participation in neoliberal cities	10
InstantProbes: a new approach to cultural probes method	9
Weaving with play practices: developing a playful autoethnography	9
Co-creating an Ecology of Design Briefs for people with respiratory disease	8
Crafting emotional narratives: autoethnography as a tool for reflexive inquiry in healthcare codesign practice during COVID-19	8
The co-design of building deep retrofitting in distressed urban areas: lessons from e-SAFE	7
Towards architectural design empowerment: analysis of the Solidary Mobile Housing project’s rationale through Theory of Change in Direct Design Empowerment Framework	7
‘ความอุ่นใจ (Kharm Unn Jai)’: honouring transcultural experiences in supporting women	7
Co-creating solutions with social housing users: a Living lab case	6
Local adequacy as a design strategy in place-based making	6
Interdisciplinary hackathons for community-based co-design with older adults: a case study	5
Applying co-design in social VR	5
Co-designing with scarcity in self- organised urban environments: a case of Shekilango commercial street in Sinza, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania	5
Spontaneous acts of everyday co-creation: somaesthetic study of affective placemaking in the case of Durga Puja, Kolkata	5
Disentangling collaborative design for sustainability	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
Homing into school to create the ideal classroom: young people want to combine the best of home and school learning environments	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
An evaluation theory for participatory design: Design Empowerment Framework (DEF)	4
Co-design, neighbourhood sharing, and commoning through urban living labs	3
Untangling the participation buzz in urban place-making: mechanisms and effects	3
Co-design for transitions: developing genuine participatory approaches to involving lifeworld and system participants	3
On diversity, pluriversality and decolonisation in design research	3
Creating the conditions for collaborative decision-making in co-design	3
Design redistribution: the role and involvement of craftsmen in the embodiment of design in the Indonesian rattan furniture industry	3
Rethinking project boundaries in architectural practice: attempts at ‘giving back’ in recent work by LMN Architects	3
Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design	3
Becoming a co-designer: the change in participants’ perceived self-efficacy during a co-design process	3
How designers navigate collaboration in design practices: an interview study of professional designers in the United States	3