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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Toolkits as participation infrastructure: a design-led systematic review of co-design workshops involving autistic people in technology development	58
Co-design from a knowledge transformation perspective: facilitating cooperation and communication between designers and craftspeople	35
From virtual reality to virtual safaris: new form of participatory design in an architectural design project	25
Designing with publics using hotspots: case study of the COVID-conscious public	22
Extending temporalities in design: designing pluriversal futures	18
Feminist reflexivity and community-engaged design: an autoethnography	18
The ‘Other Talk’: a co-design study of board games for cross-generational communication of life-and-death issues	18
Cultural preservation, social cohesion or economic benefits? Unpacking the motivations of public participation in China’s historical settlement regeneration	17
Co-designing a housing and livelihood toolkit with low-income older people for future housing in Klong Toey, Bangkok, Thailand	14
Minga as a placemaking tool in peripheral neighbourhoods. Co-design experience in Calderon, Quito ^*	14
Pragmatism versus urgency: how participatory design negotiates climate concerns in school energy projects	14
Sociolinguistic coordination devices in cross-cultural co-design interactions	14
InstantProbes: a new approach to cultural probes method	13
Convivial aesthetic in social innovation: a nested framework from three projects in Milano	13
A worldbuilding approach for pluriversality in codesign	12
‘It is not rocket science but it can change our lives’: pluriversal design with FabLab Nepal at a spinal injury clinic	11
Co-design as a metagovernance strategy for complex problems in local governments	9
Co-creating an Ecology of Design Briefs for people with respiratory disease	9
Governing through design: the politics of participation in neoliberal cities	9
Crafting emotional narratives: autoethnography as a tool for reflexive inquiry in healthcare codesign practice during COVID-19	9
Technical breakdown: breaching experiment-workshops in university lectures	9
Weaving with play practices: developing a playful autoethnography	9
Authenticity in co-design: empowering non-design-expert clients in practice	9
Recalibrating co-design through positionality-in-action: the ReCoDe approach	8
Establishing fundamental co-design principles and strategies for public health research practice	8

Co-designing with scarcity in self- organised urban environments: a case of Shekilango commercial street in Sinza, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania	8
Spontaneous acts of everyday co-creation: somaesthetic study of affective placemaking in the case of Durga Puja, Kolkata	8
Interdisciplinary hackathons for community-based co-design with older adults: a case study	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
The co-design of building deep retrofitting in distressed urban areas: lessons from e-SAFE	7
‘ความอุ่นใจ (Kharm Unn Jai)’: honouring transcultural experiences in supporting women	7
Let’s join the toy inventors: designing an inclusive collaborative play toy with and for autistic children	6
Community-based design through the enactive concept of participatory sense-making: the case of water care in the Moravia neighbourhood of Medellín, Colombia	6
Applying co-design in social VR	6
Disentangling collaborative design for sustainability	6
Co-Design for Ageing: From Participation to Systemic Change	6
An evaluation theory for participatory design: Design Empowerment Framework (DEF)	6
Untangling the participation buzz in urban place-making: mechanisms and effects	5
Designing a wayfinding system: a co-design approach for a Chinese oncology hospital	5
Co-design for transitions: developing genuine participatory approaches to involving lifeworld and system participants	5
Homing into school to create the ideal classroom: young people want to combine the best of home and school learning environments	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
Becoming a co-designer: the change in participants’ perceived self-efficacy during a co-design process	5
Design redistribution: the role and involvement of craftsmen in the embodiment of design in the Indonesian rattan furniture industry	5
Creating the conditions for collaborative decision-making in co-design	5
Exploring an ANT-inspired mapping approach for embedded design practitioners: a case-informed process	4
How designers navigate collaboration in design practices: an interview study of professional designers in the United States	4
Design implications for supporting youth co-design of interactive technologies through functional prototyping	4
Designing amidst uncertainty: drifting and byproducts in the intersection of anthropology and computer science	4
The process of value setting through co-design: the case of La Borda , Barcelona	4
Facilitating with care: reimagining participatory design through feminist ethics	4
Co-design, neighbourhood sharing, and commoning through urban living labs	4
Rethinking project boundaries in architectural practice: attempts at ‘giving back’ in recent work by LMN Architects	4
Rigorous and always from the heart: what personas did in the process of designing a youth care facility	4
On diversity, pluriversality and decolonisation in design research	4
Sustaining volunteer and pro bono technical partner engagement in community-led co-design projects	4
Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design	4
Creating a holding environment for multi-stakeholder change processes: two approaches to meaning-making for leading co-production	4
Coping Compass: co-designing a brief online positive psychology programme for youth with chronic conditions	4
Facilitating co-design among older adults in a digital setting: methodological challenges and opportunities	4
The codesign process of virtual simulation games in medical education: a case study of the ER-VIPE platform	3
Reshaping team collaboration and creativity in co-design: the role of large language models	3
Co-designing a picturebook with older adults for intergenerational heritage transfer and wellbeing	3
Pragmatic co-design methodology: a tale of university and retirement village friendship	3
Changing arenas of change: mapping collective actors, power relations and socio-ecological transitioning in a large housing estate using social worlds/arenas maps	3
Reimagining public space: co-designing the future of inclusive media	3
“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	3
Community-based practices in action: relational labour, ethical boundaries, play, and long-term engagement in communication design	3
Seamful infrastructuring through material engagement for energy transitions with youth	3
Diverse viewpoints on tactical urbanism in vacant lots: a collaborative design with young planner candidates in Türkiye	3
Co-designing of public space for urban design students using citizen-generated data	3
Co-designing with rural schools: a framework for designing nutrition learning material	3
Future Resume as a participatory design fiction approach to improve the career literacy of left-behind children in remote areas of China	3