Integrated Methodology for Co-designing and Co-creating for Sustainable Sanitation Project

Abstract

The study explored the framework for an integrated methodology for co-designing and co-creation (collaboratively), in prototyping a design system for tackling sanitation issues within a section of a community in Ghana. The aim was to test an integrated approach in exploring design-thinking approaches that stimulate, and support sustainable environmental sanitation, through behaviour changes. With the framework as our methodological approach to generate a sustainably clean environment with end users, we sought to explore the benefits of stakeholders’ voices in decision-making in sanitation planning; and ascertain their contributions to improving their environment as a result of behaviour change. The results indicate that integrated methodologies are flexible and useful when prototyping with design systems especially with the stakeholders (co-designers) in collaborative (design intervention) approach. Stakeholders’ voices when heard, in decision-making, do not just encourage sanitation planning on their streets and environment, but also helped boost the self-efficacy of managing their sanitation challenges.

Keywords: Integrated Methodologies, FraIM, Sustainable Sanitation, Environmental Sanitation, Design thinking

DOI: 10.7176/ADS/83-11

Publication date:July 31^st 2020