Co-investigator Ethan Zuckerman
Project Website http://codesign.mit.edu
Involving communities in the design process results in products more responsive to a community's needs, more suited to accessibility and usability concerns, and easier to adopt. Civic media tools, platforms, and research work best when practitioners involve target communities at all stages of the process: iterative ideation, prototyping, testing, and evaluation. In the Codesign Studio, students practice these methods in a service learning project-based studio, focusing on collaborative design of civic media with local partners.