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Nov 18, 2020
5 min

Can co-design be used to create new regulations?

Following a question from a colleague recently, I’ve been musing over this topic. Can you use a co-design process to create new regulatio...

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It’s time to do stakeholder mapping differently!

Max Hardy

Oct 28, 2020
3 min

It’s time to do stakeholder mapping differently!

I’d like to offer another suggestion for improving the way we plan community engagement processes; stakeholder mapping.

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Why having a “stickable mandate” is crucial for most things, especially for co-design projects...

Anthony Boxshall

Oct 9, 2020
3 min

Why having a “stickable mandate” is crucial for most things, especially for co-design projects...

A stickable mandate outlasts the original decision-makers...

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Common objections to committing to collaborative (co-design or deliberative) engagement processes

Max Hardy

Oct 1, 2020
4 min

Common objections to committing to collaborative (co-design or deliberative) engagement processes

Here are 4 common objections to committing to collaborative (co-design or deliberative) engagement processes.

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Q&A - Your questions answered: Is co-design suited to all projects?

Anthony Boxshall

Sep 16, 2020
2 min

Q&A - Your questions answered: Is co-design suited to all projects?

Since releasing the Authentic Co-design Course in June 2020, people are doing the course and we've had a few questions asked about the wh...

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Practical Co-design: the path to uptake of a COVID vaccine

Anthony Boxshall

Aug 27, 2020
3 min

Practical Co-design: the path to uptake of a COVID vaccine

the science shows that for any vaccine to work, there needs to be a high % uptake across the community.

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Co-design is an essential tool for COVID economic recovery

Anthony Boxshall

Aug 7, 2020
4 min

Co-design is an essential tool for COVID economic recovery

COVID-19 has closed economies... Governments and businesses at all levels are looking at driving economic recovery. We are currently in w...

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Max Hardy

Jul 27, 2020
5 min

How safe is it to participate?

Something we don’t discuss much is the importance of the ‘do no harm’ principle when engaging the community (especially relevant now with...

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How co-design makes scientific and technically complex projects easier to deliver

Anthony Boxshall

Jul 17, 2020
2 min

How co-design makes scientific and technically complex projects easier to deliver

Often big projects can hit a snag due to the scientific or technical complexity involved in some of the content. The project might be a l...

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What is your approach to consulting? And… what suits a co-design process?

Max Hardy

Jul 5, 2020
3 min

What is your approach to consulting? And… what suits a co-design process?

I’ve been consulting for 23 years, and I think I’ve settled on the consulting approach that works for me. When I say ‘approach’ what I me...

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Max Hardy

Jun 18, 2020
2 min

Getting the ball rolling on co-design

Getting started is often one of the hardest challenges for organisations willing to co-design solutions to complex problems with the comm...

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Authentic Co-design – common internal challenges and how to manage them…

Anthony Boxshall

Jun 14, 2020
3 min

Authentic Co-design – common internal challenges and how to manage them…

As @Max Hardy and I developed the Authentic Co-design process to assist Government, corporations, or community organisations with deliver...

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See the Authentic Co-design Promo Video!

Anthony Boxshall

Jun 8, 2020
1 min

See the Authentic Co-design Promo Video!

As well as being useful... we had fun making this course! Done in the time of COVID-19, we even left in some of the bloopers at the end o...

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Authentic Co-design – a framework for solving complex issues with communities

Anthony Boxshall

Jun 2, 2020
3 min

Authentic Co-design – a framework for solving complex issues with communities

About a year ago, I started working with @MaxHardy building an Authentic Co-design process to assist Government, corporations, or communi...

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Turning around an inauthentic co-design process

Max Hardy

May 26, 2020
3 min

Turning around an inauthentic co-design process

What is Co-design? A colleague/friend of mine, Anthony Boxshall, and I had the pleasure of working together on a very challenging project...

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