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The Co-Creation Navigator guides you through the different stages of co-creation, from preparation to execution, and directs you to tools and methods that help you in each stage. You will learn how to build your project's foundation, how to explore the context in which you are operating, how to get in the right frame of mind and how to remain innovative throughout the co-creation process.

The Co-Creation Navigator helps people who wish to work with a diverse group of citizens, users and/or stakeholders to develop new products, experiences and/or services.

The first version of the Co-Creation Navigator was developed and tested by Waag’s Co-Creation Lab (led by Meia Wippoo), with the support of the following H2020 projects:

  • BigPicnic aimed to generate debate on various topics related to food security, by bringing together the public, scientists, policy-makers and industry to help address the global challenge of food security. The project involved nineteen Partner organisations, including botanic gardens, NGO’s and universities. These Partners used a range of travelling exhibitions, activities, science cafés and participatory events, co-created with local people, to generate dialogue and build greater understanding of food security issues.
  • MUV - Mobility Urban Values was a research and innovation action that raised citizen awareness on the quality of the urban environment where they live in order to promote a shift towards more sustainable and healthy mobility choices. The MUV solutions are open, co-created with a strong learning community of users and stakeholders and piloted in six different European neighbourhoods.
  • Cities-4-People researched sustainable and people-oriented transport solutions to tackle the many challenges linked to mobility, and faced by urban and peri-urban areas today. The project tapped into participatory practices of social innovation and neighbourhood governance and build on three main pillars: citizen participation, community empowerment and sustainable urban planning.The project host 5 pilots, in 5 different European locations, each with its own specific urban profile.

The collection of tools for the Citizen Sensing chapter was curated by Waag's Smart Citizens Lab in 2022.The content was developed in the context of several citizen science sessions run in the fall of 2021 around the Netherlands. These sessions took place in the context of the project Hollandse Luchten. Hollandse Luchten is a citizen science project around monitoring air quality run by the province of North Holland and partners in the IJmond region and Amsterdam. The aim was to help citizens get a better understanding of the issue which will enable them to take part in discussions on equal footing with institutions and companies.  Many tools are also based on earlier work done for the Citizen Sensing Toolkit compiled in the European-wide project Making Sense.

The co-creation navigator is hosted by Waag.

For requests please contact the Smart Citizen Lab.