As community designers, our role deviates from the traditional expertise-based approach to problem solving.

Our goal is to design WITH not FOR the communities we’re working with. In order to create a space for real co-designing to happen, we have to frame our work and the intended outcomes differently than many traditional design practices.

Kelly Ann McKercher’s book “Beyond Sticky Notes” breaks down the practice of co-design as separate from, and in juxtaposition with, the traditional tenants of design thinking and practice.

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