#Co-design

In the neighbourhood of La Guinea, Castelló de la Plana, an Urban Regeneration and Renewal Area (ARRU) project is being developed to revitalise the surroundings of CEIP Castàlia, with the aim of improving public spaces and strengthening the school’s connection with its community. In collaboration with José Luis Gisbert, the project includes the expansion of the use of the Hermanos Villafañe square, the improvement of environmental conditions and universal accessibility in the nearby pedestrian areas, integrating a participatory approach that links the neighbours in the transformation process.

As part of this approach, co-creation sessions were held with 30 children from the school to gather their ideas on the remodelling of the square. Through dynamics of debate and collective creation, priorities were identified and an inclusive space for the neighbourhood was imagined. This activity, along with other participatory spaces, has been key to incorporating the real needs of the community and defining proposals that enrich the final design of the project.

The European EBENTO project aims to develop an integrated digital platform to coordinate and manage energy performance contracts in the building and renovation sector, providing a one-stop shop that responds to the needs of all actors involved.

In order to incorporate the contributions of potential users from the beginning, a co-creation methodology is elaborated under the User Centred Design (UCD) approach, allowing the 4 pilot cities involved to replicate it in their context. The implementation of the methodology is structured in several formats, including focus groups with users/beneficiaries of the energy refurbishment to identify needs and define adapted solutions, and a multi-sector workshop that validates and prioritises EBENTO’s functionalities, establishing a roadmap for the development and improvement of the digital product.

Design and activation of the sustainable Valencia panel within the framework of the European project URBACT IV ‘Cities for Sustainability Governance’.

A collaborative workspace is created, open to the 5 helixes of society, from which to lead the city’s Climate Mission in a cross-cutting manner. The proposal seeks the activation of Collective Intelligence based on open and innovative processes with multi-sectoral involvement for a shared governance of the Mission.

The activation strategy is based on the Double Diamond method of co-creation and public innovation developed by the Design Council to design services that respond to people’s needs.

Within the framework of the ‘València Design Week’, three sessions of the workshop ‘Mapping the margins. New practices in design and its agents in the territory’ were developed. Through co-creation, the city of Valencia is mapped as a territory that hosts different ways of understanding and practicing design, beyond the classic and established forms, such as practices related to the design of interactions, interfaces, systems, organizations, critical practices…

In collaboration with: Nacho Pérez, EASD València and València Design Week.

A digital platform designed to facilitate and improve the co-design processes of cooperative housing.

Program for the acceleration and consolidation of collaborative housing projects in the Valencian Community. A total of ten promoter groups are selected and accompanied throughout 2022. During this period, different training sessions are held and the situation and needs of each group are studied in order to carry out feasibility studies of properties and analysis of the economic and financial viability of the group, with the aim of providing them with tools and guiding them for their future development.

Developed in collaboration with FECOVI, Crearqció Coop. V. and El Rogle Coop. V.

Ciuta-lab’s Collaborative Production Workshop is a space for co-creation oriented towards the prototyping of citizen projects. Carpe developed its dynamisation with the aim of bringing together diverse agents to collectively think of innovative solutions.

The different sessions were focused on collaboratively obtaining innovative solutions to address the challenges of the city’s Climate Mission, and its specific theme: the circular economy. A mediation methodology was designed and implemented for the sessions. The intervention ended with the delivery of a participation evaluation report.

In addition, the needs of the Collaborative Production Workshops were evaluated through the Civimetro methodology, which served to establish a basis on which to develop and implement the evaluation indicators for future calls.

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.