OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Codesign-International Journal of Cocreation in Design and the Arts is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Co-designing an inclusive bus stop for a tourist transportation hub	26
Stimulating embodied intersubjectivities: two participatory experiments in Antwerp North, Belgium	17
Beyond polarisation: reimagining communities through the imperfect act of ontologising	13
A model of programmatic co-design with teachers: five factors for success	12
Homing into school to create the ideal classroom: young people want to combine the best of home and school learning environments	12
From virtual reality to virtual safaris: new form of participatory design in an architectural design project	9
Creating the conditions for collaborative decision-making in co-design	8
Design redistribution: the role and involvement of craftsmen in the embodiment of design in the Indonesian rattan furniture industry	7
Becoming a co-designer: the change in participants’ perceived self-efficacy during a co-design process	7
Post-its, postcards, and dream clouds: exploring participatory design methods as avenues to capture rural youth voices	7
The ‘Other Talk’: a co-design study of board games for cross-generational communication of life-and-death issues	6
Exploring the future of fashion design education for generation Z through ‘Co-design as community-based participatory research’	6
Challenges of open design in low-income communities: a case study of residential rainwater harvesting systems	5
Tropical vibes with peoples from Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta: dialogic reflection in joint inquiries as feelthinking-doing in design practice and research	5
An evaluation theory for participatory design: Design Empowerment Framework (DEF)	5
Towards pluriversality: decolonising design research and practices	5
Supporting collaborative biodesign ideation with contextualised knowledge from bioscience	5
Extending temporalities in design: designing pluriversal futures	5
Accessibility and participatory design: time, power, and facilitation	5
Co-design with marginalised people: designers’ perceptions of barriers and enablers	4
Collaborative critical making in higher education: a case study of a community-centred storytelling effort to transform harmful narratives of gun violence in Boston	4
Relational sensitivity in participatory design	4
Convivial aesthetic in social innovation: a nested framework from three projects in Milano	4
Rethinking project boundaries in architectural practice: attempts at ‘giving back’ in recent work by LMN Architects	3
‘It is not rocket science but it can change our lives’: pluriversal design with FabLab Nepal at a spinal injury clinic	3

Making it better together: a framework for improving creative engagement tools	3
Layers of technology in pluriversal design decolonising language technology with the live language initiative	3
Infrastructuring ethical use of surveillance technology in dementia care	3
A worldbuilding approach for pluriversality in codesign	3
Virtual reality environment-based collaborative exploration of fashion design	2
Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design	2
Governing through design: the politics of participation in neoliberal cities	2
Project-based communities: lessons learned from collaborative city-making experiences	2
Co-designing a housing and livelihood toolkit with low-income older people for future housing in Klong Toey, Bangkok, Thailand	2
‘I’m the boss of the Stiemerbeek valley!’Reconsidering children’s empowerment in participatory design from the perspective of infrastructuring	2