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Pragmatic co-design methodology: a tale of university and retirement village friendship
CoDesign, Vol.20(2), pp.283-294
2024
Abstract
Co-authored by academic staff and older adult community members, this paper reports on an incidental and pragmatic co-design model grounded in a round table friendship-informed approach. Interdisciplinary academics met with residents of a proximate retirement community, sharing open discussions with no agenda, including improving engagement between the two communities. The ensuing co-designed programme of outreach activities was of myriad mutual benefits: the retirement community benefited through opportunities for meaningful engagement via inter-generational knowledge-sharing, social connection, and access to expertise and equipment, whilst the University benefited across Learning and Teaching, Research, Engagement, and Commercialisation sectors. This pragmatic co-design approach described resulted in equitable contributions to knowledge generation, exchange, and translation in an interdirectional way. We argue that future research can adopt such an approach, exhibiting potential across all forms of community engaged research.
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- Title
- Pragmatic co-design methodology: a tale of university and retirement village friendship
- Authors
- Andy Ward (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesGeoff Clarke (Author) - Hibiscus Retirement Village (Australia)Ivan Close (Author) - Hibiscus Retirement Village (Australia)Daniel Wadsworth (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Nursing
- Publication details
- CoDesign, Vol.20(2), pp.283-294
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1080/15710882.2024.2345912
- ISSN
- 1745-3755; 1571-0882
- Copyright note
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Healthy Ageing Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991018398902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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