When Co-Design Becomes a PR Exercise: Learning from Australia’s Live Export Debacle

Co-Design vs Performative Consultation Co-design has become the darling of public policy. Governments and organisations everywhere trumpet their commitment to collaborative decision-making, promising to work alongside affected communities to shape policies that impact them. But what happens when co-design is deployed not as a genuine collaborative process, but as window dressing for decisions already made? … Read more

Why Co-Design Delivers Better Results

Team collaborating under facilitator guidance, demonstrating co-design, shared leadership, and teamwork.

For generations human history has been littered with evidence that people want to be included in decisions which affect them.  In 1789, the French Revolution echoed to calls for liberty, equality and fraternity; one of the most memorable rallying cries of any movement.  Liberty spoke to the need to be free of rules imposed by … Read more