Celebrating solutions – Exploring examples of social

innovation in practice

Methods and tools for engagement and participation

Mary Rose Cook

Uscreates

Engaging and empowering

Identifying, designing and implementing

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Insight into the methods and tools you are using in your own work – which tools worked in

your experience and why.

8 minutes for….

Method

Co-design

Collaboration Design

Co-design

Collaboration

Benefits of collaboration

Expertise of the subject area

Different perspectives to consider

Empowerment to address challenges and build on opportunities

Ownership of the outcomes

Design background

Collaboration is not new, but when delivered by designers it is…

Co-design

Collaboration Design

What do designers bring to the collaboration?

Expertise of the subject area

Different perspectives to consider

Empowerment of challenges and opportunities

Ownership of the outcomes

Visual communication skills

Seeing things differently

Risk taking

Harness collaborators creativity

= Good partnership for social innovation

Design can be used to create tools that enable collaboration

Collaboration can be used to enable the design of social innovation

Design and collaboration are interlinked

Design can be used to create tools that enable collaboration

Collaboration can be used to enable the design of social innovation

Tools for co-design

Co-scope

Engagement / insight tools

Mobile spaces

Tools to support peer research

Tools to support peer research

Co-develop

Co-design workshops

Prototyping and piloting

Co-implement

Being the outcome

Delivering the outcome

Co-evaluate

Increasing Chlamydia Screening Rates

Tools for idea generation

Behavioural journey mapping

Facebook fan page

Film competition

Service interface redesign

Communication design

Improvements for co-design

•Understanding the limitations, the extent, the best topic areas, for co-design e.g. scale •Better practice of ethics in co-design

•Clearer understanding of accountability and responsibility of co-design outcome

•Evaluation: how and what

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