What role will the design majors students when organizing a flat relationship team at participatory design workshops?

Practice report on Co-design project for construction of Japanese style service design method (1).

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to consider the important factors for members of participatory design to build a flat relationship based on the roles played by design major students who participated in the workshop of this project. Design major students participated as an intermediate position between facilitators and participants in this workshop. As a result, participants actively tried to actively create ideas beyond differences in age and social position. From this activity, it turned out that participating design workshops will be activated by intermediary members participating.