What’s the Big Idea?
The exercise of power, in its different forms, is an integral aspect of the work of co-design. Different individuals and groups each come to co-design with their own desires, needs, interests, values, and resources. They especially arrive with forms of knowledge that they consider are likely to give some form of advantage in the co-designing process. And so, inevitably and unsurprisingly, power dynamics are always in play. Arguably co-design is a process that is all about power. This is not meant to be negative, given that the word power can evoke images of interpersonal domination, but rather it recognizes that power is at play in any human system for both good and bad. Facing this is both somewhat ...
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