TRIPS Co-design for All toolkit
The TRIPS Co-design for All toolkit provides an overview of the main methods that have been co-created and piloted with the seven participating cities in the TRIPS project as training materials. These materials synthesise the results of 2.5 years of collaboration and the journey of co-creating a methodology with/for/by/to engage persons with disabilities in the design of accessible public transport.
The toolkit is constituted by exercises, templates and guidelines that have been co-created and continuously iterated throughout the project. These materials are organised into six modules, each representing a phase of the end-to-end design process the groups went through in the project.
1. Identify who needs to be involved in your project
The first module addresses the most important ingredient of our methods: who is involved and how they are involved. The exercise in this module is to identify who needs to be involved and ways to get them involved.
This module is also supported by the following materials:
- The Access needs protocol, a template to communicate the practical setup a group would need to participate in an online session or a face to face meeting.
- The TRIPS participatory framework provides the theoretical foundation of Co-design in the project. Shared below.
Resources for this module
- Exercise: The co in co-design
- Template: Access needs protocol
- Guidelines: TRIPS participatory framework
2. Create a research plan and set up a collaborative working structure
This module is about creating a process that is informed by research. This is an important aspect of a co-design process because investigating something in its context will ground and substantiate your work in real life needs.
The exercise in this module is to create a research plan and setup a working process.
This module is supported by the following materials:
- Template: City overview template, a document that was used by the groups to keep a running overview of their work in progress.
- Template: Sharing work in progress template, a simple document to keep share work in progress regularly and consistently.
Resources for this module
- Exercise: A process informed by research
- Template: City overview template
- Template: Sharing work in progress template
3. Create an identity and a vision statement as a group
This module is about communicating who you are and what you are trying to achieve.
The exercise in this module is to create an identity as a group together with a set of motivations and a specific vision.
This module is supported by the following materials:
- Template: Identity and vision, slides version, word version.
A working document that was used by the groups to ideate an identity and vision. - Template: Survey: defining how we want to work together
Resources for this module
- Exercise: Identity and vision exercise
- Template: Identity and vision, slides version, word version.
- Template: Survey: defining how we want to work together
4. Identify a problem to address and define a clear scope for action
This module is about identifying a problem to address and defining a clear scope for action. There’s two exercises in this module. The first one consists of identifying a problem and considering its political, economic, social and technological dimensions.
The second exercise in this module, is about gaining an understanding of the structures that govern the specific problem you have identified in the first exercise.
This module is supported by a template that has been used by the groups to specify their change propositions as a set of needs, functional requirements, and steps in a journey.
Template: Develop and test your change proposition
Resources for this module
- Exercise: Set a target exercise
- Template: Develop and test your change proposition
- Exercise: Understanding decision landscapes exercise
5. Come up with a change proposition as a group
This module proposes the workshop as a format to define specific and actionable goals, together with a plan to generate knowledge about these outcomes together. The exercise in this module is to organise, deliver and analyse a workshop.
This module is supported by a few materials:
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- Template: How to prepare a workshop in three formats: word version, slides version, screen reader version.
- Template: Collaborative notes and debrief, to document and analyse the workshop as a group.
Resources for this module
- Exercise: How to come up with a change proposition as a group exercise
- Template: How to prepare a workshop in three formats: word version, slides version, screen reader version.
- Template: Collaborative notes and debrief, to document and analyse the workshop as a group.
6. Documenting and communicating your work
This module is about concluding an end to end process and creating a communication plan to share and communicate its outputs. The exercise is to identify the messages, target audience and artefacts you will need in order to disseminate your work.
Resources for this module
- Exercise: Communicate your work exercise