Special issue of CoDesign on “Repositioning Codesign in the Age of Platform Capitalism: From Sharing to Caring”

CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts

What can I contribute?

What role might co-design play in establishing new and different commons-based forms of economic activities and systems

- Theoretical relations between co-design and commons-based peer production

- Empirical cases of co-design in the context of commons-based peer production

How does the collaborative character of co-design interrelate with the commodification of

digital social relations?

- Critical analysis of co-design in the context of platform capitalism

- Co-design and commons-based peer production as forms of activism

How might co-design be interrogated, redefined, and evaluated as a means to encourage care and social collaboration?

- Theoretical elaboration of criteria for evaluation of co-design activities promoting social collaboration

- Empirical discussions of evaluation of co-design activities promoting social collaboration

Important dates

22nd December 2017: Submissions deadline for intentions to contribute
28th February 2018: Notification of relevance sent to authors
31st May 2018: submission of full papers

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