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Exploring Co-creation on a Large Scale

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Designing For, With and From User Experiences, Proceedings of the May 13, 2009 Symposium. Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, StudioLab Press, 2010.

On May 13, over 350 people, 50/50 from Dutch industry and academia, and several guests from Belgium, Germany, and the USA, attended the morning symposium, and about 120 researchers and practitioners took part in the afternoon tie-in sessions. Liz Sanders of MakeTools and Jacob Buur of the University of Southern Denmark talked about co-creation and ethnography. Twelve young designers talked about their experience with this aspect in the Dutch design industry.

Everyone’s an Expert

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Frame Issue 70: Theme: The Creative Office, September/October 2009 by Jane Szita
Offices are one of the shared spaces that can benefit from co-creation, the practice of consulting ‘expert’ end users before the design process begins, explains pioneer Liz Sanders.
Frame is the world’s leading trade magazine about interior and product design.

Collective Creativity through Making, Hacking and Enacting

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Collective Creativity through Making, Hacking and Enacting
December 14, 2013

Liz was one of the keynote speakers at the Design Fusion conference that took place at C-Mine Genk in Belgium. The conference was part of the 7th Design Triennial in Flanders that serves as an investigation into the social relevance of design and the responsibility taken by designers in our society. Slides from Liz’s presentation are available.

Empowering Elderly Women with Osteoarthritis through Hands-on Exploration of Adaptive Equipment Concepts

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Flinn, S., Sanders, E.B.-N., Yen, W.-T., Sommerich, C. and Lavender, S. (2013) Empowering Elderly Women with Osteoarthritis through Hands-on Exploration of Adaptive Equipment Concepts. Occupational Therapy International, 20(4).

Human-centered Design Workshops in Collaborative Strategic Design Projects: An Educational and Professional Comparison

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Liem, A. and Sanders, E.B.-N. (2013) Human-centered Design Workshops in Collaborative Strategic Design Projects: An Educational and Professional Comparison. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, Volume 18:1.

Participatory Design with Marginalized People in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities Experienced in a Field Study in Cambodia

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Hussain, S., Sanders, E. B.-N., & Steinert, M.  (2012). Participatory Design with Marginalized People in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities Experienced in a Field Study in Cambodia. International Journal of Design, 6(2), 91-109.

Fusion of Horizons: Co-designing with Cambodian Children who have Prosthetic Legs by Using Generative Design Tools

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Fusion of Horizons: Co-designing with Cambodian Children who have Prosthetic Legs by Using Generative Design Tools
Hussain and Sanders, 2012

Hussain, S. and Sanders, E.B.-N. (2012) Fusion of Horizons: Co-designing with Cambodian Children who have Prosthetic Legs by Using Generative Design Tools. CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts.1-37.