Why use design in the public sector?

In our CoLab Exchange session on Monday we will be exploring creativity, collaboration and…

As we prepare to share the findings of interviews about co-production with a range of people who work and volunteer in Dudley borough, this feels a good time to add more to this blog about what co-production is. We published a series of posts in…

In yesterday’s post there was reference to four core values of co-production which Edgar Cahn describes in his book No More Throw-Away People: The Co-Production Imperative. Here are this week’s final (edited) short extracts from the book, describing these core values.

The fab people at Kaizen Partnership have developed a Co-production Readiness Tool to help identify what’s needed in moving towards the adoption of a co-production approach. It’s a helpful reminder that for effective co-production each and every party in the needs to…

Having shared some short thought-provoking extracts from Edgar Cahn’s book No More Throw-Away People: The Co-Production Imperative this week in the lead up to our first CoLab Exchange sessions on Monday, what better to end the week with than this great video based on the thinking in…

During last week’s CoLab Exchange session we introduced divergent and convergent thinking.

Divergent thinking is about generating multiple ideas, solutions, or alternatives. Convergent thinking is about evaluating and selecting from among those…