Projects
In three different projects the collaborating partners and their co-workers together create knowledge and tools by applying a co-design approach. Each project examines a particular care, social care or social work context.
The selected context is investigated in a collaboration between researchers, municipality administration, municipality care workers, their clients (e.g. young adults with autism) and other relevant stakeholders (e.g. relatives). Ethnographic fieldwork, workshops and self-documentation tools are example methods used in this stage. The generated knowledge is further explored to identify potential challenges and possibilities in the existing practices. From this work, the design of new ideas and concepts of tools, methods and way of working or doing things emerge.
These outcomes are further developed and tried out by the different project stakeholders. As a result, all people involved in a project (e.g. municipality care-workers, their daily leaders, the people they care for, the care organization and the project researchers) acquire new knowledge about the context and its embedded possibilities. Also, new tools, methods or ways of working or everyday routines can be created based on this new knowledge. Below you can read more about each projects:
The selected context is investigated in a collaboration between researchers, municipality administration, municipality care workers, their clients (e.g. young adults with autism) and other relevant stakeholders (e.g. relatives). Ethnographic fieldwork, workshops and self-documentation tools are example methods used in this stage. The generated knowledge is further explored to identify potential challenges and possibilities in the existing practices. From this work, the design of new ideas and concepts of tools, methods and way of working or doing things emerge.
These outcomes are further developed and tried out by the different project stakeholders. As a result, all people involved in a project (e.g. municipality care-workers, their daily leaders, the people they care for, the care organization and the project researchers) acquire new knowledge about the context and its embedded possibilities. Also, new tools, methods or ways of working or everyday routines can be created based on this new knowledge. Below you can read more about each projects:
2018 – 2019
Aim project
Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Co-design
A one-year co-design project (May 2017 – May 2018) exploring the innovation capability and design possibilities in and around three municipality-driven group houses for people on the Autistic spectrum. The project partners were the three houses residents with autism, their relatives and legal guardians, municipality carers, the municipality care organization and the academic researchers. The co-design process allowed the project and the different partners to explore their everyday lives and activities in new ways, identify challenges and possibilities and to both design and innovate new ways of working, care solutions and tools to facilitate a better everyday life.
READ MORE2018 – 2019
PYC Project
Keywords: Parenting Young Children (PYC), Co-design, Social Care
A one-year co-design project (June 2018 – May 2019) exploring possibilities to support everyday life and social care initiatives for families with young children where the parents, for different reasons, need some extra resources and support in everyday life. The project involve social care workers and families subject to the PYC (Parenting Young Children) initiative and is based on co-design.
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Further Explorations
Keywords: Dissemination, Pycipedia, MusicalAid, Evaluation and test
The third year's focus is on disseminating and further evaluating the results from the first two years. In particular MusicalAid and Pycipedia.
