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 2022-05-01 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
Co-designing with scarcity in self- organised urban environments: a case of Shekilango commercial street in Sinza, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania	6
Applying co-design in social VR	6
Co-creating solutions with social housing users: a Living lab case	6
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
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
Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design	4
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
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