Designing for wellbeing
Designing for wellbeing
Designing for wellbeing
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4<br />
Co-design with<br />
the public sector<br />
Kirsikka Vaajakallio & Tuuli Mattelmäki<br />
Co-design starts with the assumption that people<br />
should have a voice regarding the public services<br />
that influence their lives – either directly, when they<br />
use the service, or indirectly through the <strong>wellbeing</strong><br />
of the community and society at large. Co-design is<br />
driven by the iterative reframing of problems, and<br />
the exploration of alternatives through dialogues,<br />
visualisations and prototypes that are created as collaborations<br />
between the stakeholders. This chapter<br />
addresses the question of how design, its processes,<br />
tools and mindset can be applied in collaboration<br />
with public organisations, which are not used to<br />
experimenting and continuously reframing the problem.<br />
People working in the public sector are often<br />
unfamiliar with design’s explorative approach and<br />
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