[TRN] Episode 2: Co-designing with the community

design phase
Roadmap of the co-design process

In May, the Corpus team organized three workshops focused on the co-design of models and tools for sharing resources, spaces, and time. All activities took place in District 4 and involved the previously identified target groups.

Co-design workshop A

District 4 map

The first workshop was held on May 22nd, at the Library Service Point “I ragazzi e ragazze di Utoya” and involved an activity aimed at helping local stakeholders define practices and tools for mutual exchange and sharing. Using a large map of the District as a base, participants traced connections between community needs and resources put into circulation by citizens, public authorities, and local associations. These connections were visually represented with three colored threads, each symbolizing a different form of sharing: lending, gifting, and exchange.

Co-design workshop B

The second workshop took place on May 24th at the “Sa Lolla” Civic Centre, as part of a day dedicated to circular practices. Building on the ideas and reflections developed during the May 22nd session, the Fab Tech Lab engaged citizens and residents of District 4 through its dynamic and hands-on methods. The insights gathered from participants proved to be particularly valuable to the research team, offering an accurate and nuanced picture of relationships and connections shaping the neighborhood.

Co-design workshop C

The third workshop was held on May 26th, once again at the “Sa Lolla” Civic Center. During this last activity, we explored how to integrate tokens into the exchange and lending flows mapped out in the previous session, envisioning new scenarios for collaboration. Key points of the discussion were:

  • The necessity for two types of tokens: one functioning as a social currency and one as a reward for having put in place circular practices and values
  • gifting should remain outside the token system, preserving its non-transactional, anti-capitalistic value
  • The exchange and lending of immaterial resources (such as the sharing of skills) has the same importance as the exchange and lending of material objects.

A special thanks goes to the associations that followed and supported this first phase of the project throughout all its steps: 

And to Les Petites Madeleines, for their active engagement and for facilitating the project’s workshops and practical sessions.