Project 1 : Identify and Respond

1. Select a designer, studio, or specific project that/who is already incorporating in some measure, even if small, design "co-creation" principles into their practice/message.

2. Analyze the work and answer the following questions:
° How successful do you think the approach is at involving "the other" in design knowledge, production, output (outcome)? What are your terms for success?

° Where does the work sit on the expert/novice creation scale? Why?
° Is the work transferable to other content?
° Has the work pioneered new territory or is it building on cultivated ideas? What are those ideas?
° Is the work driven by rules of assertion (designer driving the bus) or emergence (social, democratic forces)?
° If the work favors the "novice" end of our spectrum, how does the design function to promote and/or inspire participation?
° To what extent does profit figure in the work's success?
° What aspects of cultural production is the work exploiting? Opting not to include? Overlooking?
° How is "the other" represented (ala Stuart Hall, etc.)?
° What else do you observe?

3. Design an artifact (heretofore named a touchpoint) that adds to, furthers, and/or improves the work. In this project you are demonstrating your values relative to the work...You might agree with or take issue with the work.

SELECTED PROJECT : JPG Magazine
JPG Magazine Research
Artifact Proposals