DoWell Co-design Lecture Series 2024-2025: Session 7 – Co-Designing with Neurodiverse People: An Embodied Creativity Perspective 

Dr Laura Malinin is Inaugural Director of Nancy Richardson Design Center and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture + Design of Colorado State University. In this presentation, she describes two multi-year projects where an interdisciplinary group of researchers and students engaged neurodiverse people in co-design processes to improve inclusion and engagement in community programming. The first case involved older adults with dementia and their care partners to develop community performing arts programming. The second project engaged a group of autistic youth to improve visit-ability at a science museum. The projects will be discussed using the lens of embodied creativity as a framework to explain the design and methods used in the different cases as well as outcomes.

DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lectures Series 2024-2025

The DoWell research group offers an expanded interdisciplinary workshop and lectures series this year to provide the opportunity for colleagues to explore an exciting range of different topics, including practices and approaches to co-designing in various health and care contexts. The format of the monthly sessions is more flexible this year, including online presentations and panel discussions as well as in-person workshops for colleagues to get hands-on experience and get involved in the different approaches to co-design. The workshops aim to provide a forum and time for colleagues to meet, and to foster discussion and cross-faculty collaboration.