Scaling Up Co-Design research and practice: building community-academic capacity and extending reach

共同设计是所有利益攸关方为解决复杂问题而直接参与设计活动，被视为支持和增强集体创造力并导致更好、更可持续的解决方案的一种方式。共同设计也正在成为社区研究和社区-学术伙伴关系中的一个重要主题。由AHRC牵头的互联社区项目于2012年7月组织的这次峰会强调了解决“社区参与和研究”这一主题的必要性。在这方面，在社区-学术伙伴关系中共同设计和共同提供研究和实践，越来越被视为根据共同愿景、公平参与、所有权和信任、能力建设和相关性等原则处理复杂社会问题的宝贵范例。尽管存在差异，但参与其中的人(社区团体、社区组织和学者)认识到，通过他们的伙伴关系和相互联系，他们可以创造新的创新机会，并建立他们发现和解决复杂问题的能力，这些问题是单独完成不可能的。然而，这不是一项微不足道的任务。它需要发展共同的愿景、公平的参与和信任，克服资源方面的限制，但也需要克服文化、使用的术语/语言和方法/做法的差异。这一挑战为这个项目奠定了基础。该项目提出并反思了一种在社区-学术合作伙伴关系中基于一套共同创造技术的共同设计研究的过程，我们称之为“共识设计”。这一过程基于“角色扮演”和协作设想技术。拟议进程的目的是释放和加强社区、社区组织和学术机构的内在能力，以便形成共同的研究愿景，帮助扩大其实践和影响范围。这一进程将产生下列产出：--制定一套富有远见的实践守则/框架，以便利用一套共同原则共同创造和共同交付研究成果；--制定研究议程，帮助社区-学术界伙伴关系利用其现有资产建设其能力，并扩大其影响范围和实践范围；--制作一本“反思素描本/笔记本”，其目的是直观地记录对拟议过程、社区-学术伙伴关系及其成果的反思和情感。上述成果为在第二阶段联合开展研究奠定了基础。

Co-design, the direct engagement of all stakeholders in design activities for the purpose of addressing complex problems, is seen as a way for supporting and enhancing collective creativity and leading to better, more sustainable solutions. Co-design is also becoming an important theme in community research and within community-academic partnerships. The summit organized by the AHRC-led Connected Communities program in July 2012 highlighted the need to tackle the theme of 'community engagement in and with research'. Within this context, the co-design and co-delivery of research and practice in community-academic partnerships is increasingly seen as a valuable paradigm for tackling complex social problems based on the principles of shared vision, equitable involvement, ownership and trust, capacity building and relevance. Despite their differences, those involved (community groups, community organisations and academics) recognize that through their partnership and interconnections they can create new opportunities for innovation and build their ability to identify and solve complex issues that would not have been possible to do alone. However this is not a trivial task. It requires the development of a shared vision, equitable involvement and trust, and overcoming limitations in resources, but also differences in culture, terminology/language used and methodology/practice. This challenge sets the scene for this project. The project proposes and reflects on a process for co-designing research in community-academic partnerships based on set of co-creative techniques that we call 'Design by Consensus'. The process is based on 'role playing' and collaborative visioning techniques. The aim of the proposed process is to unleash and build upon the intrinsic capacities of communities, community organizations and academic institutions in order to form a common research vision, helping scale up their practice and extend their reach. This process will result to the following outputs: - the development of a visionary code of practice/framework for community-academic co-creation and co-delivery of research using a set of shared principles; - the specification of research agendas that can help community-academic partnerships build their capacity using their existing assets and extend their reach and practice; - the production of a 'sketchbook/notebook of reflections' that aims to visually record reflections but also emotions for the proposed process, community-academic partnership and their outputs. The above outputs set the foundation for the co-delivery of research in phase 2.