Postgraduate Course: Applied Co-creation (fusion on-site) (EFIE11110)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Futures Institute |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Applied Co-Creation focuses on developing the practical skills and experience to facilitate the involvement of multiple stakeholders and end-users in the co-creation of a service through participatory processes of research, design, and management.
This course extends any prior theoretical understanding of participatory practice, by focusing upon the pragmatic challenges of facilitating participation in a range of contexts and projects. The course will provide students with concrete experience of delivering, attending, reflecting and reporting on their own and others' participatory events. |
| Course description |
This course, outlined below, will provide hands-on, student-led experience of facilitating co-creation through a participatory workshop or event.
The individual, pre-intensive, component will introduce students to key concepts and prepare them for group work through a pre-recorded introductory lecture, reflective case studies of different forms, group-formation activities.
The two-day intensive component is divided into an initial day of preparation and planning; towards a day of delivering, attending .and reflecting on participatory activities and events. On Day 1, students will be instructed on best practice in running participatory events, and supported to scope a participatory event, activity or workshop that they will facilitate for their peers and other students on Day 2. With tutor support, they will work collaboratively to prepare and produce any assets they require to facilitate their event.
On Day 2, each student will be involved in independently facilitating, and attending a participatory event, workshop or set of activities. They will prepare and provide each other feedback, and reflect with the class on the practice of applied co-creation.
Groups will remain connected throughout the post-intensive period to collate, and analyse the documentation of their event and prepare materials for a comprehensive, reflective report on their work that will be the basis of an individual assessment.
The student experience will integrate personal learning objectives within a group / studio environment. It will combine individual study together with structured tutor led workshops, a virtual studio culture, seminars and tutorials, to support the student-led delivery of a series of co-created participatory events.
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) - On-Site Fusion Course Delivery Information:
The Edinburgh Futures Institute will teach this course in a way that enables online and on-campus students to study together. This approach (our 'fusion' teaching model) offers students flexible and inclusive ways to study, and the ability to choose whether to be on-campus or online at the level of the individual course. It also opens up ways for diverse groups of students to study together regardless of geographical location. To enable this, the course will use technologies to record and live-stream student and staff participation during their teaching and learning activities.
Students should be aware that:
- Classrooms used in this course will have additional technology in place: students might not be able to sit in areas away from microphones or outside the field of view of all cameras.
- Unless the lecturer or tutor indicates otherwise you should assume the session is being recorded.
As part of your course, you will need access to a personal computing device. Unless otherwise stated activities will be web browser based and as a minimum we recommend a device with a physical keyboard and screen that can access the internet.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand how to apply co-creation approaches, and their purpose and importance in inclusive and progressive service design and management.
- Organise, prepare and facilitate bespoke co-creation activities related to contemporary social, economic and data-driven challenges.
- Analyse, reflect, communicate and report upon co-creation activities clearly.
- Recognise how and when different co-creation approaches and methods can configure different forms of participation and how to incorporate meaningful feedback from participants in co-creation activities.
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Reading List
Indicative Reading List:
Essential:
Vines, J., Clarke, R., Wright, P., McCarthy, J., & Olivier, P. (2013, April). Configuring participation: on how we involve people in design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 429-438).
Stickdorn, M., Hormess, M. E., Lawrence, A., & Schneider, J. (2018). This is service design doing: applying service design thinking in the real world. " O'Reilly Media, Inc.".
Recommended:
Chris Elsden, Ella Tallyn, and Bettina Nissen. 2020. When Do Design Workshops Work (or Not)? In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS' 20 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 245-250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395856
Simonsen, J., & Robertson, T. (Eds.). (2012). Routledge international handbook of participatory design. Routledge.
Further:
Daniela K. Rosner, Saba Kawas, Wenqi Li, Nicole Tilly, and Yi-Chen Sung. 2016. Out of Time, Out of Place: Reflections on Design Workshops as a Research Method. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1131-1141. DOI:
Osborne, S. P., Nasi, G., & Powell, M. Beyond co-production: value creation and public services. Public Administration. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
On completion of this course, the student will gain experience in the following attributes and skills:
- Developing a nuanced and critical understanding of how to apply different participatory approaches towards inclusive service design and management;
- Becoming practically skilled in planning, facilitating, reflecting upon and documenting participatory events, workshops and activities;
- They will be encouraged to be critical and creative problem solvers through their experience of delivering engaging co-creation activities, with a particular focus on engaging participants and stakeholders in the context of data-driven innovation;
- They will develop communication and organisational skills, through the practical delivery of a participatory event or workshop;
- Through intensive group work to deliver a participatory or event students will develop skills in working collaboratively with others. |
| Keywords | Applied Co-Creation,Participatory Design,Co-Design,Facilitation Methods,Design Workshops |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Chris Elsden
Tel:
Email: chris.elsden@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr David Murphy
Tel:
Email: dmurphy7@ed.ac.uk |
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