OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Codesign-International Journal of Cocreation in Design and the Arts is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Toolkits as participation infrastructure: a design-led systematic review of co-design workshops involving autistic people in technology development	44
Designing with publics using hotspots: case study of the COVID-conscious public	32
Cultural preservation, social cohesion or economic benefits? Unpacking the motivations of public participation in China’s historical settlement regeneration	21
The ‘Other Talk’: a co-design study of board games for cross-generational communication of life-and-death issues	18
Co-design from a knowledge transformation perspective: facilitating cooperation and communication between designers and craftspeople	16
Feminist reflexivity and community-engaged design: an autoethnography	12
Extending temporalities in design: designing pluriversal futures	12
Co-designing a housing and livelihood toolkit with low-income older people for future housing in Klong Toey, Bangkok, Thailand	11
Minga as a placemaking tool in peripheral neighbourhoods. Co-design experience in Calderon, Quito ^*	11
From virtual reality to virtual safaris: new form of participatory design in an architectural design project	11
A worldbuilding approach for pluriversality in codesign	10
‘It is not rocket science but it can change our lives’: pluriversal design with FabLab Nepal at a spinal injury clinic	9
Governing through design: the politics of participation in neoliberal cities	9
Pragmatism versus urgency: how participatory design negotiates climate concerns in school energy projects	9
Convivial aesthetic in social innovation: a nested framework from three projects in Milano	9
Towards architectural design empowerment: analysis of the Solidary Mobile Housing project’s rationale through Theory of Change in Direct Design Empowerment Framework	8
InstantProbes: a new approach to cultural probes method	8
Technical breakdown: breaching experiment-workshops in university lectures	8
Establishing fundamental co-design principles and strategies for public health research practice	8
Co-creating an Ecology of Design Briefs for people with respiratory disease	8
The co-design of building deep retrofitting in distressed urban areas: lessons from e-SAFE	7
Crafting emotional narratives: autoethnography as a tool for reflexive inquiry in healthcare codesign practice during COVID-19	7
Spontaneous acts of everyday co-creation: somaesthetic study of affective placemaking in the case of Durga Puja, Kolkata	7
Weaving with play practices: developing a playful autoethnography	7
Recalibrating co-design through positionality-in-action: the ReCoDe approach	7

Co-design as a metagovernance strategy for complex problems in local governments	7
Applying co-design in social VR	6
Co-creating solutions with social housing users: a Living lab case	6
Co-designing with scarcity in self- organised urban environments: a case of Shekilango commercial street in Sinza, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania	6
Design redistribution: the role and involvement of craftsmen in the embodiment of design in the Indonesian rattan furniture industry	5
Community-based design through the enactive concept of participatory sense-making: the case of water care in the Moravia neighbourhood of Medellín, Colombia	5
‘ความอุ่นใจ (Kharm Unn Jai)’: honouring transcultural experiences in supporting women	5
Re-envisioning a community hub in a US women’s prison: reflections on a trauma-informed co-design (TICo-D) and service-learning process	5
Disentangling collaborative design for sustainability	5
Let’s join the toy inventors: designing an inclusive collaborative play toy with and for autistic children	5
Interdisciplinary hackathons for community-based co-design with older adults: a case study	5
Creating the conditions for collaborative decision-making in co-design	4
Homing into school to create the ideal classroom: young people want to combine the best of home and school learning environments	4
Sustaining volunteer and pro bono technical partner engagement in community-led co-design projects	4
Becoming a co-designer: the change in participants’ perceived self-efficacy during a co-design process	4
Co-design for transitions: developing genuine participatory approaches to involving lifeworld and system participants	4
How designers navigate collaboration in design practices: an interview study of professional designers in the United States	4
Facilitating with care: reimagining participatory design through feminist ethics	4
An evaluation theory for participatory design: Design Empowerment Framework (DEF)	4
Untangling the participation buzz in urban place-making: mechanisms and effects	4
Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design	4
Exploring an ANT-inspired mapping approach for embedded design practitioners: a case-informed process	3
The process of value setting through co-design: the case of La Borda , Barcelona	3
On diversity, pluriversality and decolonisation in design research	3
Pragmatic co-design methodology: a tale of university and retirement village friendship	3
Rigorous and always from the heart: what personas did in the process of designing a youth care facility	3
Creating a holding environment for multi-stakeholder change processes: two approaches to meaning-making for leading co-production	3
Coping Compass: co-designing a brief online positive psychology programme for youth with chronic conditions	3
Facilitating co-design among older adults in a digital setting: methodological challenges and opportunities	3
Design implications for supporting youth co-design of interactive technologies through functional prototyping	3
Rethinking project boundaries in architectural practice: attempts at ‘giving back’ in recent work by LMN Architects	3
Co-design, neighbourhood sharing, and commoning through urban living labs	3
Designing amidst uncertainty: drifting and byproducts in the intersection of anthropology and computer science	3
Future Resume as a participatory design fiction approach to improve the career literacy of left-behind children in remote areas of China	3
Esquejes in co-labour: pluriversal design and visual artefacts of Indigenous landscapes in Caspana, Chile	2
Applied visual art for codesign: three case studies of emergent practices	2
Reshaping team collaboration and creativity in co-design: the role of large language models	2
Co-designing of public space for urban design students using citizen-generated data	2
Diverse viewpoints on tactical urbanism in vacant lots: a collaborative design with young planner candidates in Türkiye	2
Gameful learning: reflections on co-designing an art gallery board game	2
Healing fabulations: a dialogic methodology for digital codesign in health research	2
Co-designing in the middle: supporting adults with intellectual disabilities to meaningfully participate in design	2
Permeance . A demodern artistic process for more-than-human collaborative practices in Participatory Design	2
Co-designing a picturebook with older adults for intergenerational heritage transfer and wellbeing	2
An autoethnography of quasi-autoethnographies: seeding an impact-oriented complex collaborative research ecosystem	2
The codesign process of virtual simulation games in medical education: a case study of the ER-VIPE platform	2
Reimagining public space: co-designing the future of inclusive media	2
Co-designing public policy in high-income colonial-settler countries – a systematic review	2
Integrating design processes and narrative approaches in career guidance: a model of Co-designing Career Narratives (CCN)	2
Co-designing Australia’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2021–2031: a realist evaluation	2

Direct vs. remote data collection methods in co-design: navigating the evolving landscape	2
Towards a framework for urban landscape co-design: Linking the participation ladder and the design cycle	2
Community-based practices in action: relational labour, ethical boundaries, play, and long-term engagement in communication design	2
Co-designing with rural schools: a framework for designing nutrition learning material	2
Seamful infrastructuring through material engagement for energy transitions with youth	2
“We are all just humans participating”: the role of an embodied approach, virtual space and artistic media in shaping participants’ experience in a co–design process	2
No player left behind: exploring the use of collaborative talk in a playfixing activity	2
Architects as mediators: public interest design for transformative community action	2
Remote Data Collection Methods (RDCM): intertwining our evolving worlds	2
Local contexts as alternative knowing spaces for design fields	2
Purta ngkarrama (In dialogue together): co-designing and co-learning in Ntaria	2
‘Hello, I’m me’: an autoethnographical account of blurring identities as a health researcher	1
Children as evaluators in the fuzzy back-end of participatory design	1
Co-designing and evaluating virtual tutors in a social language learning app for children with autism spectrum disorder	1
Speculative robotic co-design for coastal restoration: a case study with Landcare volunteers in Newcastle	1
Designing EdTech tools using a codesign model: a multi-stakeholder design case	1
Nextpit Scenario Vision (NSV): a co-design method of future scenario transition and integrating stakeholders for intelligent cockpits	1
Relational sensitivity in participatory design	1
Trauma informed participatory design: definitions, practices and resources	1
Co-design in the street: everyday urban space, neoliberalism, and the limits of participation in England	1
Navigating participatory dilemma’s: introducing a learning technology for collectives to reflect-in-action	1
Algoprax , a serious game to start bridging the gap between practice and A.I. use	1
Cocreating support: toward a digital inclusion intervention for parents in poverty	1
A grounded pattern language: testing a methodology for exploring cohousing residents’ involvement in shared outdoor spaces	1
Facilitating co-design in healthcare: a collaborative autoethnography of personalities, power, and competing priorities	1
The Chrono-topo line. A thick mapping method to represent the complexities of co-produced territories	1
Navigating hybrid remote data collection methods (RDCM) in co-design with older adults: exploring roles, opportunities, and trade-offs	1
Walking alone, together participatory design as orchestrating between remoteness and situatedness in decision-making	1
A multi-sectoral scoping review of co-design theoretical models	1
Social housing renovation for ageing-in-place in the Netherlands: synergising co-design and empathic design with virtual reality	1
Dress-up doll experiments: codesign with children to drift into the world of play and exceed research questions	1
Co-designing the future of respiratory healthcare	1
Participatory design to address common challenges in digital democracy in a remote and asynchronous setting: a case study of a citizen participation platform for the Seoul Metropolitan Library	1
Games as a method to engage young people in research: learnings from The Future of Third Places Game	1
Overcoming trust barriers in RDCM: the efficacy of psychographic co-design in qualitative data collection	1
Co-designing for future: empowering seniors in shaping policies	1
Bringing the autistic lifeworld to supportive technology design: an enactive approach	1
Curriculum co-design: how to create an innovative fractal curriculum toolkit	1
Exploring the future of fashion design education for generation Z through ‘Co-design as community-based participatory research’	1
DOTS knowledge exchange: Designing Open Third Spaces for equitable collaboration	1
Gaze and identity: unpacking the dynamics of social design in Chinese rural contexts through autoethnography	1
Fostering the cultural heritage exhibition co-design process: a scientific and industrial perspective	1
Participatory prototyping for learning: an exploration of expansive learning in a long-term urban participatory design process	1
Augmented codesign? Methodological insights from an AI-supported regional strategic development process	1
Co-designing a family-forward initiatives toolkit for public safety organizations	1
Institutioning in the design and repair of digital public services	1
Activating concrete: participatory design for DIY skate dots. City Mill Skate’s practice-based methodology at the UCL east campus	1
Co-designing for First Nations leadership in land management: listening to stories, designing for experience, and advocating for change	1
Rethinking the value of care: a case study of sub-micro-level co-design with Scottish care workers	1