Abstract
AbstractCo‐design and other associated design approaches often deploy creative and making approaches in facilitating collaborative practices. In a therapeutic setting, engagement in creative and making activities have been associated with improvements in people's well‐being, yet when deploying these as part of co‐design practices, these outcomes are often overlooked. This paper presents the results from a series of workshops that focused on the well‐being benefits of participating in co‐design practices. The research uses Max‐Neef's (1991). Theory of Needs to explore how innate human needs might be satisfied through participation in co‐design practices, and demonstrates how this framework might be used for planning and evaluating co‐design practices through a wellbeing lens. Finally, it suggests that future generations of design practitioners would benefit from exposure to the consideration of co‐design as a process of “welldoing.”
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