PUBLIC COLLABORATION LAB

Public Collaboration Lab is a collaborative design initiative exploring the potential and value of strategic collaboration between design education and local government to service, policy and social innovation - co-creating place based solutions to local challenges... Participatory and collaborative design-led approaches engage citizens and other societal actors in the co-definition, co-design and, in some scenarios, co-delivery of social and service innovations that mobilise citizens as experts by experience,as active collaborators and as potential service participants as well as users. This approach recognises citizens both as ‘people with needs' and as ‘assets in meeting their own and each other's needs'. Public Collaboration Lab aims to increase understanding of design education's potential to support innovation practices within local government and among the residents, community groups and businesses they serve and to democratise social and service innovation and improve public..

Primary location: London United Kingdom