Design participation and codesign: New forms, application domains, and representational systems

This editor perspective paper discusses participatory and codesign, outlining six research avenues for potential authors of Designing . These avenues are: Exploring how design participation is organized in new ways, contexts, and with different interested parties; Investigating the pragmatics of realworld deployments of participatory design forms and developing empirically grounded theories; Developing representational systems for codesign, examining their interactions and roles in the design process; Studies of how design activities by non-professionals integrate with professional design during use time; Examining codesign as a catalyst beyond traditional designable areas, such as transitional change, policy, and governance; and Investigating codesign in the educational realm, aiming to examine the design orientation and approaches that design schools adopt when tackling real-world problems involving all interested parties.