Co-design and Co-production
Co-design and Co-production is the ultimate relationship between designers and the public. This form of design involves every single stakeholder in the design process. If you asked us to design a local bakery to strengthen neighbourhood relationships, we would involve the bakers, the cake eaters, the delivery boy, the shop owner… everybody joins in. It’s good fun.
The way we visualise distinguishes Snook’s co-design process from other forms of public consultation. We guide people through our design process, reinforcing ideas with design awareness, and how to make this whole process easier with visualisation.
People often come and speak to us after Snook co-design events. They feel a sense of pride and can say ‘I helped create that’. There is no alienation. Just the way we like it.
We are co-design artists, our team have advanced skills in drawing people, scenes and emotions on the spot that really helps conversations and ideas flow. The key ingredient is imagination; when people talk to us about what services could be like, we make their thoughts real.
Society is realising how important it is to involve people in decisions that effect them, we use a non-logical process to make this happen. It’s fairly difficult to express in words but very easy to express in action.
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Start up Street Stirling Update
We have exciting updates on our Startup Street project! This piece of work is about producing a meaningful change in Stirling; taking all the...Read more -
Re-imagining the High Street: an invitation to participate
Snook are working on an exciting project that re-imagines the High Street of Stirling. We are holding events and workshops between the 31st August...Read more -
Re-designing support for care leavers
As a result of research that IRISS conducted on the state of innovation and improvement in Scottish social services sector, key barriers to innovation...Read more -
NHSScotland’s Quality Improvement Hub
The Quality Improvement Hub, based at Healthcare Improvement Scotland, has been designed to create a safe space for health boards and institutes,...Read more -
Co-production crusade
Last month at Co Prod, Snook invited conference attendees to explore our ‘Coproduction Crusade’ in search of a rigorous process. The title...Read more -
Tools to talk – A communication aid for the health sector
Roisin Robertson and the team at Renfrewshire Council asked Snook to help them develop an outcome of the Renfrewshire Co-Design workshop; Tools...Read more -
ALISS – Providing better information for people living with long term conditions
In collaboration with Futuregov, Snook worked with an exciting group of people from NHS Scotland. Headed up by Christine Hoy from Scottish...Read more
What people say about us
"Vision, energy, method. For design to work, for it to make an impact and a positive difference in the world, then this is what it needs: the vision to see things differently; the energy to inspire and enable change; the methods that are right and imaginative in redefining design to meet the challenges of a new age. This is what Snook offers. They are leading representatives of a new generation of design thinkers and doers who will make change happen."
Mike Press | Writer, researcher, professor: design, craft, crime and culture
