If you’ve ever managed a complex project, you know the challenges. Multiple stakeholders, intricate technical or scientific details,...

Peter Sandman, the Risk Communications guru, coined the term "Battered Corporation Syndrome" in his article  "Saying I'm Sorry",...

The challenge for engaging earlier, or doing authentic co-design, is reasonably well-known. It goes like this; an organisation will say...

Tips for using co-design successfully in Environmental Impact Assessment.

Along with my colleagues, Susan Carter and Anthony Boxshall, we are delighted to be offering our first six-week bootcamp co-design...

Authentic Co-Design recently hosted a conversation on the challenges of co-design (you can watch it here) and we were thrilled, but not...

At Authentic Co-design we hear lots of reasons NOT to do co-design. Last week we ran a free webinar with tips and tricks for surmounting...

If you follow the work we do here at Authentic Co-design, you’ll know that one of the things we are passionate about is understanding and...

At Authentic Co-design we hear lots of reasons NOT to do co-design. We know it can be scary and new. There are often challenges,...

In our line of work, we are always preaching the value of looking back and reflecting on what went well and what went…not quite as well....

“Where do we start?” This is one of the most common questions we hear from people in organisations thinking about co-design. Getting...

Authentic co-design is a tool that works with an endless number of industries and builds on existing wisdom from lived experience rather...

Our energy sources are transitioning at an accelerated rate from fossil fuels to renewable energy (like solar, wind, green hydrogen,...

Providing better social and affordable housing is a key issue for Governments across Australia right now but one that comes with its fair...

Before you even get to talking with communities or other participants about co-design, what happens inside your organisation is crucial....

In huge and different news, I would like to announce that I am recording an album! Well, it’s not my album, and it’s not just any album;...

Max Hardy interviews Daniella Dougherty, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Authentic Co-design (Susan Carter and I) had the...

There is so much being written about co-design, and talked about, and practiced. Sometimes the name is ‘taken in vain’ (to borrow a term...

I’ve been wanting to blog about how we can better scope and define projects for quite some time, especially for authentic co-design. Now...

Thanks to those who attended and threw in great questions, ideas and examples. If you couldn't make it to the Authentic Co-design Webinar...