This project explored a community driven design approach, on a practical level. The goal of the design process was to design a service for urban farming communities situated in Stockholm. This service was co created with members of the communities to make them more efficient, better accessible and easier to replicate.
The subject of this research is urban farming communities in the urban area of Stockholm and how these communities can be have a bigger diffusion of their services in order to reach a wider population.
More and more, designers take the role of facilitators in social innovation processes by using collaborative approaches aiming at a transition towards sustainability. To do so, they collaborate with active communities that create solutions for their own problems through bottom-up approaches. Consequently, the role of professional designers is shifting and new design skills and approaches are required.
The method that will be followed is service design with a strong focus on community participation in the process inspired by the work of Ezio Manzini and Anna Meroni around creative communities and collaborative services.My ongoing thesis project outline.
