#Co-design

Nou Servef is participatory process for improving the Valencian Employment and Training Service, through the involvement of all the stakeholders it works with. Workshops, interviews and surveys are used to draw up a strategic document for the innovation of the entity which has more than 1,000 employees in the regions of Castelló, València and Alacant.

Process of co-design of a Civic Lab from which to face the challenges of the city of Valencia. A space to bosst civic innovation, and at the same time, to take care of the people who design, manage and draw up proposals for improving their environment. Throughout different face-to-face and digital formats, we explore current civic labs models, incorporate their learning and co-design a specific-context Lab.

We involved people linked to community culture, social movements and neighbourhood projects. It has been developed with the support of Grigri Projects and OFIC.

Dispositiu de Resiliència Urbana is a project of co-creation of two pergola-benches that respond to the need to provide shade and rest areas in the IES Benicalap schoolyard. The proposal won a prize in the Benicalap Més Verd collaborative green ideas competition.

Marjal Urbana is the winning proposal of the projects competition for the skatepark in Plaça de l’Ona (La Marina de València). It was born from the idea of replicating the concept of Marjal, understood as an intermediate area between the urbanised territory and the sea. Marjal is the Valencian term used to define a wetland area, close to the sea, with great natural wealth.

Together with the project’s drafting team formed by Straddle 3, Eulia and Sergi Arenas, several co-design workshops are held where the city’s skater community contributes, from their experience, to perfect the final design.

Training session held during the co-creation process for the eco-neighbourhood La Pinada in Paterna, Valencia.

Working with the project’s technical team and future neighbours, we share reflections that aims to collectively define the willed model of neighbourhood and its public space. Based on realistic and current examples, we show which factors are necessary to design a place that puts people, their lifestyles and needs at the centre of the design.

This publication shows new ways of doing and thinking in which citizens play a leading role in the promotion of transformative actions. It compiles projects, reflections and research that have been conducted around the Civic Design course since its first edition in 2015. A course promoted by the Civic Innovation School in which more than 500 people from almost 30 countries have participated.

Co-design process to transform a plot of land into a square for the residents of Orriols, Valencia. Through a diverse participatory activities, a project is designed for the space that is now the heart of the neighbourhood.