Coordinated, multicomponent care models improve outcomes in early psychosis in high-income settings, but how coordinated care can be adapted for rural, pluralistic, low-resource systems remains poorly understood. We aimed to co-design a locally feasible coordinated care model for people with severe mental illness (SMI) in rural Uganda and identify feasible delivery agents, role divisions, engagement with pluralistic care pathways, and anticipated implementation barriers. We conducted three iterative co-design workshops with 18 participants across parallel churchand mosque-based series in Buyende District, Uganda. Participants included biomedical and mental health workers, Village Health Team members, religious leaders, traditional healers, local leaders, people with lived experience of SMI, and caregivers. Transcripts were translated and analyzed using the Framework Method. Four themes emerged. Participants described sequential help-seeking across a pluralistic care landscape with directional referral asymmetries. They proposed distributing psychosocial support and medication follow-up across a tiered workforce, with relational trust as a key feasibility condition. Reintegration was framed through administrative endorsement and community economic institutions. Family psychoeducation was viewed as foundational and deliverable through task-shifting and peer caregivermentorship. Participants articulated a coordinated care model preserving core functions while redesigning delivery around a community-extended, task-shared workforce.

Design is transitioning modalities, from participation to deep engagement, creating active citizen(s). Authors define, communicate, and navigate post-participatory sustainable design, (interviewing 50+ project leaders), catalysing sustainable activities. Engaging Design, enables creative individuals, communities & collective action(s) to craft/design synergies: motivated by mutual respect, designing ‘with’ not for, shifts understandings’ of public engagement, transcending disciplines, providing sustainable value. Analysis and insights, yield recipes to cultivate sustainable active citizen(s).

Collaborative design futuring has gained attention as an inclusive approach for envisioning future societies where external stimuli play a crucial role in stimulating imagination. Building on literature on design stimuli, psychological distance, and co-design, we propose and evaluate a five-layer framework through a multiple-case analysis of fifteen workshops and exhibitions. Through comparative analysis of different workshops, we explored how stimulus characteristics, such as modality, richness, and scenario, influence participant engagement and perceived psychological distance.

To bridge capability gaps between designers and artisans that hinder fashion and textile business collaboration and social innovation effects, this study explores how capability-based co-design fosters sustainable partnerships. Based on 20 case studies in China’s textile sector, it connects craft values, product features, and capability-based interactions. The model links this approach to make co-design practical amid skill gaps and enhance social innovation. It offers actionable strategies for balancing co-design methods in skill asymmetric partnerships in cultural and creative industries.

This study explores how AI workflows and prompt engineering reshape storytelling in design education. Students utilized tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Runway, and Meta Glasses to reframe existing projects through iterative scripting, image generation, and reflection. Analysis of 88 visual projects and over 80 videos showed a shift from static documentation to multimodal narratives. Findings suggest AI enhances communication fluency, engagement, and reflective practice through adaptive, platform-native storytelling.

This paper presents a pedagogical tool for the co-design of systemic and resilient Nature-based Solutions for carbon removal. Tested with nine participants, it significantly improved understanding of NbS dynamics. Wilcoxon tests showed higher scores for all thinking skills derived from Bloom’s taxonomy (p < 0.05), with notable gains for higher-order skills. Participants reported that the tool was intuitive and engaging, fostering collaborative learning. Results confirm its educational value and potential to engage creative and resilient NbS design.

Co-creation with end-users is a well-known process. While this approach has been widely adopted in B2C, B2B companies have been slower to adopt it due to complex decision-making structures. This case study is based on co-creation sessions with end-users to respond to the needs of B2B industries. The study highlighted the importance of co-creation with end-users in B2B industries to understand real-life use scenarios, and finally to propose a final product that meets their expectations.

This study investigates how structured co-design approaches foster team mental models (TMMs) sharedness in interdisciplinary design teams engaged in information visualization projects. Interdisciplinary collaboration faces challenges including communication barriers, diverse domains and complex informational environments that hinder shared understanding and cohesion. Drawing from literature on team mental models, team cognition and co-design practices, the study formulates four research questions related to specific interventions, integrative activities, evocative artifacts, framing guides and guided reflexivity. An exploratory mixed-methods approach involved two design teams through brainsketching workshops, with one experiencing structured co-design interventions and an unfacilitated group without interventions. Data analysis integrated qualitative verbal protocol coding with quantitative transition matrices to capture sequential interaction patterns. Chi-square analysis revealed distinct behavioral patterns, with the intervention group exhibiting richer communicative sequences. Findings reveal that integrative activities enhanced early team integration and supported divergent thinking. Evocative artifacts facilitated semantic alignment and novel idea development, while framing guides helped establish adaptive decision-making. Guided reflexivity encouraged procedural strategies around complex problem spaces. The unfacilitated group experienced difficulties, particularly in task framing and reflection processes. This research contributes a procedural framework mapping verbal activity types to team cognition stages, offering approaches for fostering TMMs in interdisciplinary design contexts.

Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is essential for mitigating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animal health, but implementing national initiatives is challenging due to diverse influencing factors and the need for context-specific approaches. An Animal AMS Practice Group, comprising individuals with lived experience overseeing AMS in various animal health contexts, was engaged and through an experience-based co-design approach created a comprehensive AMS Framework that captures progress and supports tangible improvements in AMS practices in each context. The Framework supported a cross-sectoral pilot assessment that helped users identify progress, areas for improvement and contextualise antimicrobial usage and AMR data, while also motivating further AMS efforts. Despite common barriers to the sharing of sensitive data, participants willingly shared AMS results for comparison and publication. The process demonstrated that co-design coupled with peer learning and expert support is essential to creating AMS tools that are relatable to users. Several participants incorporated the Framework into routine practice, with some using it to drive sector-level AMS action. The resulting Framework offers an adaptable, scalable entry point for AMS efforts and a platform for setting meaningful improvement goals. It supports broader opportunities for national-level AMS assessments and strategy development.

Archaeologists often proclaim that they have much to contribute to the ‘global challenges’ of the twenty-first century, yet they find little space at the policymaking table. In this debate article, the authors argue that archaeologists seeking practical relevance must start with a critical, expanded understanding of the contemporary, including how communities, stakeholders and complex policy structures operate to navigate unfolding socioecological crises. They propose a reversed historical directionality grounded in transdisciplinary research design that integrates contemporary challenges and community-defined priorities from the outset to foster a dynamic, future-facing dialogue that more readily informs pathways to tangible impact.

Collaborative design (co-design) is a team effort fostered through the creative involvement of all participants in co-creative collaboration (co-creation). This new approach to design as a creative social activity heightens the need to study the interpersonal aspects of creativity. Though co-creation has become widely used in recent years, few studies focus on its dynamics, which emerge from intense interactions created by the shared subjectivities of participants in an intersubjective environment. The management and enhancement of interpersonal factors can help create this shared environment by leading the process from personal to interpersonal creativity. Some of these interpersonal factors could be measured by observing the data of biosignals that are used as social cues, particularly if studied in comparison with the data of one of the partners of the social interaction, thanks to the synchrony rate between these datasets. This synchrony of biosignals related to shared behaviours can be associated with the interactive level dynamics that occur during co-creation in team of two (pairwork). This study presents the results of an experiment where biosignal synchrony results were compared to subjective feedback regarding the interactive level to understand the dynamics of the interaction. The results suggest the possibility of using the synchrony rate measured by the Damerau- Levenshtein distance (Ld) or dynamic time warping method (DTW) to approximate the dynamics of the interactive level in co-creative pairwork. This study will contribute to our understanding of the influence of the socio-cognitive process on interactions during co-creation to improve the co-creative design process.

The advent of complex socio-technical systems in modern society calls for teaching value-based participatory design in engineering curricula. Yet, no scientific literature supports teachers in this effort. This paper introduces a teaching approach called “value-based participatory design of complex socio-technical systems” and reports on its implementation. It emphasizes the importance of actively involving stakeholders and tapping into their values from the very start of the design process. Following this approach, students learn to (1) design with stakeholders, (2) identify key values and conflicts to create a value-based mission statement, (3) navigate uncertainties, (4) adopt an iterative design process, and (5) recognize that only stakeholders can define what works best. Results of an academic course based on this approach confirm its value and importance for engineering curricula.