Co-design Tools for Living Labs is a design research exploration on the use of adaptations of various qualitative research approaches such as semi structured interviews and self documentation which are supported by design oriented activities (e.g. drawing and visual representation tasks, on- and offline ideation workshops) and complemented with the construction of visual representations and materials that analyze, present and communicate the results to stakeholders involved.
These approaches aim at informing product and service development by shedding light into processes related to the development of everyday practices. The tools have been thought from the point of view of design and research activities that can happen in "living lab contexts"; which for us mean strategic and sustained collaboration with ordinary people as experts of everyday life.
2007
Concept design, visual design, user centered research
Designed as part of Helsinki Living Lab project at Arki Research Group, Media Lab.
Collaboration with Andrea Botero Cabrera and Joanna Saad-Sulonen.