#851: Perspectives on Co-Design for Equity: What it Means to Work with a Community

The purpose of this study was to explore how learning designers describe the process of working with a community, and what that reveals about their assumptions about co-design. Interviews with three designers engaged in equity-focused community-based projects involving learning designers from different nationalities, institutional roles, and positionalities relative to the communities they collaborated with were analyzed using discourse analysis. Findings reveal that designers’ conceptions of co-design are shaped by this positionality, their values, and the socio-cultural dynamics of each project.