• The Co-Design Maturity Model (2023) is a framework for assessing individual and team capability as well as organisational maturity in co-design. It can be used for awareness-raising, identifying individual skill level and learning needs, assessing team readiness and contextual conditions for co-design, and understanding organisational and sectoral maturity.

  • The Systemic Design Practice Wheel (2021) guides practitioners taking creative and participatory approaches to complex problems. It presents five core domains—principles, place, people, process and practice—that cover the key considerations for working with partners, colleagues and communities on shared challenges.

  • The Co-Design Canvas (2018) was developed for Paper Giant as a way to introduce the key principles of co-design. Adapted from NSWCOSS, these principles are: outcomes-focused, inclusive, participative, respectful, and adaptive. On one side, the canvas presents them as examples within a case study project; on the other, it has questions and space to consider how the principles can be applied in your work.

Emma Blomkamp has developed several frameworks to support people in their collaborative and systemic design work: 

Emma also shares knowledge about strategic and participatory design and public sector innovation, by writing and editing academic articles, books/chapters, and blog posts, as well as appearing on podcasts and at public events.

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