Co-creative Methods

Co-Creation & Engagement can take many forms, pursue diverse goals, and thrives on experimentation and methodological diversity. In order to sensitise researchers and students to the possibilities, moments and methods of co-creative and engaged research and to support them in selecting or developing tailor-made tools and methods, we offer various workshop formats and teaching inputs. With a mixture of theoretical frameworks and application-oriented exercises, these sessions can be designed, for example, to screen planned and ongoing projects for co-creative potential, to facilitate the initiation of multi-stakeholder collaborations or to trial and critically reflect on specific methodological approaches.

Please let us know if you are interested in teaching inputs or have specific workshop requirements and we will look into a possible co-operation.

You can find a variety of methods and guidelines for inspiration here.

Workshops

We regularly develop workshops to raise awareness and build capacity in the area of co-creation & engagement for specific target groups, concerns and contexts. If you are interested or have specific needs in your research area, discipline or doctoral programme, please get in touch with us.

Workshop Formats (Selection)

‘Citizen Sensing: What opportunities does participatory data collection with sensors open up for science, local communities or politics?’ Getting to know the concept through playful exercises and examples from other cities. Using mobile sensors to independently measure particulate matter. Read out results with a view to the Helmholtz Centre HEREON's digital platform for air quality forecasting. Discussing and reflecting on data quality and analysis, the relationship between measurement and modelling, possible applications and their opportunities and limitations, etc

‘Introduction to moderation and mediation of multi-stakeholder projects’: A deeper understanding of moderation and mediation is conveyed through theoretical inputs, simulations and role plays. Practical cases of moderated events, meetings or conflict discussions are analysed. This develops an awareness of the challenges and barriers in multi-party communication and the need for an empathetic yet assertive approach to communication on the part of the moderator.

"Collaborating through play? Opportunities and challenges of serious play in co-creative processes": After a brief introduction, the participants play through specific formats from the field of serious gaming in small groups following instructions. Based on the experiences gained, we will then reflect in plenary on the effects the games produced in the workshop and what effects may have been intended in the use contexts for which the respective format was developed. We conclude the workshop by considering for which of our own scenarios we can imagine playful approaches, or perhaps exactly why not.

Teaching

The Team Co-Creation & Engagement regularly contributes to teaching activities, such as guest lectures or collaborative teaching tandems, to jointly explore the theoretical foundations and discipline-specific knowledge of co-creative work with educators and students. We also aim to support the development of methodological skills and critical-reflective competencies. You can find some examples here.

If you are interested in a co-operation in the field of teaching, please do not hesitate to contact us. Together we will examine the potential for targeted guest contributions or joint teaching tandems in your department or degree programme.

Mendes, Claudia & Ribeiro Douglas. Partizipation trifft Effizienz: Ko-Kreative Wege in der öffentlichen Verwaltung, SoSe 2024 (PDF)
Caser, Ursula & Mendes, Claudia. Digitale Mittagspause: Das Co-Creation & Engagement Center stellt sich vor, SoSe 2024
Mendes, Claudia & Ribeiro Douglas. Die Kraft der Vielfalt für die Ko-Kreation, WiSe 2023/24 (PDF)
Maasen, Sabine. Re-Thinking Innovation: Green, Open, Social, WiSe 2023/24
Caser, Ursula & Mendes, Claudia. Die „gemeinsame Sprache“ in ko-kreativen Projekten finden - eine Herausforderung!, SoSe 2023
Maasen, Sabine & Ribeiro Douglas mit Mendes, Claudia & Caser, Ursula. Kommunikation, Ko-Kreation und Mediation: praktische Aspekte der integrativen Forschung, WiSe 2022/23 (PDF)
Caser, Ursula. Green Office and Co-creative Research at the Knowledge Exchange Agency (TransferAgentur), SoSe2022
Maasen, Sabine. Innovation als Signatur der Gegenwartsgesellschaft, WiSe 2021/22
Maasen, Sabine mit Sutter, Barbara. Dissertation - exzellent und relevant!, WiSe2021/22
Maasen, Sabine mit Sutter, Barbara. Requalifizierte Bürger, Experten des Alltags, Scientific Citizen: Kompetenzen für Öffentliche Wissenschaft, WiSe 2021/22
Maasen, Sabine. Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft – Szenen einer komplizierten Beziehung, SoSe 2021
Maasen, Sabine. Von Action Research über Transdisziplinarität bis Co-Creation: Formen und Begründungen partizipativer Forschung, SoSe 2021

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