Broadband and Me

Community

I really enjoyed the Communities Dominate brands book, and the blog is shaping up to be interesting too (not unexpected given its written by the authors)

Communities Dominate Brands: Designing your own revolution

...And it seems the notion of co-creation is moving into public policy as a new 'co-creation' approach to health care is set out in this paper from the Design Council's RED unit.

read it here.

Red Paper 01 Health - Co-creating Service

Authored by Charle [Leadbetter] and Hilary Cottam won the London Design Museum designer of the year award 10 days ago.

Cottam does not design for people but with them. Her aim is to give users the tools and support to develop their own solutions. She is particularly committed to applying this thinking to big public-service issues in education, crime and health.

The co-creation model is springing up everywhere. This triggered off something in my mind about democrary and participation. After all public services in theory should be 'by the people, for the people', so this initiative should prove to be a powerful model.

One experiment I would like to do myself is engage in this type of community based approach to development my own business. So if you are interested in participating, drop me a mail.