community engagement | Authentic Co-design

User Experience vs Co-design for Health Care Industries: Twins, Lovers or Enemies?

Authentic co-design is a tool that works with an endless number of industries and builds on existing wisdom from lived experience rather...

How Authentic Co-design can help Governments rise to the challenge of delivering more social housing

Providing better social and affordable housing is a key issue for Governments across Australia right now but one that comes with its fair...

To Co-design or not to Co-design ….. solutions with communities?

There is so much being written about co-design, and talked about, and practiced. Sometimes the name is ‘taken in vain’ (to borrow a term...

Strategic Questioning to unlock co-design

After 20 years I can safely say that Strategic Questioning is the most powerful tool I have employed for helping organisations to become...

Co-design can build trust in the roll-out of COVID Vaccines

Back in August 2020 in the middle of the 110+ days lockdown in Melbourne, Australia I blogged about a practical application of authentic...

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.