🏠 Home

<aside> ⚠️ Before planning co-design, consider:

Is co-design needed? What has already been done? Does this information already exist? Will this new work add value, or fatigue Will this work increase or reduce people’s power and dignity? What’s the history of the context according to the people within it? How do they talk about their past, present and future? What’s happening now in that context? Is this the right time?

Do I need to lead co-design? Who am I to the people I want to work with? Who would we be together? What are the power differentials? Am I the right person to be leading this work?

</aside>

Who are you?

Consider your identity in relationship to the people you want to work with. Where might your lived/living experiences overlap? Where is it different? Do you intend to practice within the Design Justice Principles? Research Justice? If not, why not?

⚠️ Here are some cases where you’re probably not the right person to lead co-design:

• You have no ‘way in’ to build relationships
• You are deeply uncomfortable with the subject matter
• You lack the emotional bandwidth to hold the process with and for others
• You are likely to be significantly re-traumatised
• You are stuck in knowing what’s ‘best for’ people
• You can’t act as an honest broker.

Consider: Where do you sit on the wheel of power and privilege? (Sylvia Duckworth)

Image: Wheel of power and privilege adapted from ccrweb.ca by @sylviaduckworth

Team Positionality mural template by Daniel Stillman based on the positionality wheel by Lesley-Ann Noel