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Conference Agenda

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Agenda Overview

Session

D223: CO-DESIGN AND CO-CREATION IN DIVERSE DESIGN CONTEXTS

Time:

Tuesday, 19/May/2026:

10:15am - 11:15am

Session Chair: Milene Gonçalves, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The

Location: Conference Hall Orlando 1

Presentations

Design tools as catalysts for shared problem framing in West African entrepreneurial contexts

Kodjo Senam Dola^1,2, Jean-François Boujut¹, Chloé Lecomte²

¹Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G-SCOP, France; ²CIRAD, UMR Innovation, France

This article explores how design tools can enhance shared understanding of problems within West African entrepreneurial ecosystems, where new product development occurs amidst resource scarcity and intense market opportunitiies. The findings emphasize that design tools serve as flexible cognitive intermediaries that promote collaboration, uncover underlying assumptions, and foster new perspectives for solution development. Their value emerges through a progressive translation process, where researchers reinterpret these tools to bridge the diverse object worlds of entrepreneurs.

Empowering designer-artisan partnership through capability-based co-design

Jianan Hu¹, Eunsuk Hur², Xizeng Jia¹

¹Tsinghua University, China; ²University of Leeds, United Kingdom

To bridge capability gaps between designers and artisans that hinder fashion and textile business collaboration and social innovation effects, this study explores how capability-based co-design fosters sustainable partnerships. Based on 20 case studies in China’s textile sector, it connects craft values, product features, and capability-based interactions. The model links this approach to make co-design practical amid skill gaps and enhance social innovation. It offers actionable strategies for balancing co-design methods in skill asymmetric partnerships in cultural and creative industries.

From scenarios to negotiation games: staging the co-evolution of problem and solution spaces

Signe Pedersen

Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark

This paper introduces negotiation games as a method for staging and structuring collaboration in sustainability-oriented engineering design. Building on the Staging Negotiation Spaces (SNS) framework, it shows how scenarios can be re-staged as rule-based artefacts that provoke dialogue and alignment across organisational roles. Drawing on a case in scenographic production, the study demonstrates how negotiation games enable stakeholders to surface divergent concerns, reframe challenges, and co-evolve problem and solution spaces through situated alignment.

Co-creation with end-users to respond to the B2B industry: a case study

Sora Lee-Remond^1,2

¹École Supérieure des Technologies et des Affaires (ESTA), France; ²Université Marie et Louis Pasteur (UMLP), ELLIADD Laboratory (U.R. n°4661), Belfort, France

Co-creation with end-users is a well-known process. While this approach has been widely adopted in B2C, B2B companies have been slower to adopt it due to complex decision-making structures. This case study is based on co-creation sessions with end-users to respond to the needs of B2B industries. The study highlighted the importance of co-creation with end-users in B2B industries to understand real-life use scenarios, and finally to propose a final product that meets their expectations.