Designing in and for Long-Term Collaboration: From Co-design to Making Commons

In design for social innovation, there are two central concerns. One is related to how to support collaborative processes: bringing together different stakeholders (from citizens, to civil servants; from entrepreneurs to representatives of the third sector). The other is the question of how to develop long-term collaborations among actors with diverse interests. Starting with some on-going projects at Malmö Living Labs, the lecture proposes a particular framing, i.e. making commons, to articulate what designing in and for such collaborations might entail. Specifically such a frame highlights issues of ownership, value production and power relations in such collaborations. (...)