Collecting Seeds, Nurturing Growth, and Cultivating Potential

An alternative concept for facilitating long-term co-creativity in local communities

Abstract

Based on the experience from a participatory design project in a Tokyo neighbourhood community, we suggest an alternative approach for long term co-creation processes. By introducing the metaphor of “farming” we are proposing a set of dynamic “tactics” for managing co-design workshops that are significantly different from the traditional way of strategic goal-focused planning. We broadly outline our concept by introducing the main aspects of exploring, preparing, seeding, nurturing and cultivating in regards to collaboration and creativity.