Learning Club: "The Corruption of Co-Design"
Event description
Co-design is not fundamentally new, but in just the past five years, practitioners and theorists alike have found themselves grappling with the complexities of participatory work – of doing things with other people. So, what’s changed?
In this session, we’ll discuss a new book with the provocative title, The Corruption of Co-Design (2023) by Karl Palmås and Otto von Busch. This critique is short and accessible, yet academic and potentially out-of-touch. It is also far from a definitive account of co-design. So, in this learning club, we’ll discuss the book as raw material for a discussion about our professional experience.
What will this look like?
In the first 90-minute session, we’ll reflect on the book and discuss how it adds to our practice. Then, in part two, we’ll discuss how we can expand our practice beyond the book.
Who is this for?
This learning club is for people who have explored or experimented with co-design in practice, and who want to reflect on their experience through discussing a very short and accessible (yet academic and potentially out-of-touch) critique of co-design.
Who is leading this CoDesignCo event?
Kea Members Danny Spitzberg and Rachael Dietkus are co-facilitating the learning club.
When is it going to happen?
This club is in two parts, with two 90-minute online sessions held three weeks apart.
We have timed it to suit both American and Australasian time zones! UPDATE: RESCHEDULED DATES BELOW
Part 1:
🦅 Thursday July 6th, 5pm-6.30pm Pacific Time (US) / 8pm-9.30pm Eastern Time (NY).
🦘 Friday 7th July, 10am-11.30am AEST (Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane) / 8am-9.30am AWST (Perth) / 12pm-1.30pm NZT (Auckland).
Part 2:
🦅 Thursday July 27th, 5pm-6.30pm Pacific Time (US) / 8pm-9.30pm Eastern Time (NY).
🦘 Friday 28th July, 10am-11.30am AEST (Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane) / 8am-9.30am AWST (Perth) / 12pm-1.30pm NZT (Auckland).
🌏 In a different timezone? Find out what time this is for you.
🙏 Please only register if you can attend both sessions and can commit to reading at least one chapter from the book in advance of the first session.
If you're a CoDesignCo member, please note we're gradually uploading chapters into the CoDesignCo resource bank :)
This club is free for Kea members and $15 for Galah members to participate in.
Non-members are welcome to join these sessions, and are asked to contribute $30 (AUD) to our running costs.
(If you would like to join CoDesignCo, please sign up here.)
Please note that registrations will close when we are full, or one week before the first session, to give everyone time to read at least a bit of the book before we meet.
If you have any questions or feedback, please send an email to eb@codesignco.space