Socio-materiality of trust: co-design with a resource limited community organisation. Issue 3 (3rd July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Clarke, Rachel Elizabeth; Briggs, Jo; Armstrong, Andrea; MacDonald, Alistair; Vines, John; Flynn, Emma; Salt, Karen
• Is Part Of: CoDesign. Volume 17:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 258
• Page End: 277
• Publication Date: 2021-07-03
• Subjects: Community research -- co-design -- trust -- distrust -- socio-materiality; Design -- Periodicals; Communication in design -- Periodicals; Artistic collaboration -- Periodicals; 745.2
• DOI: 10.1080/15710882.2019.1631349
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1571-0882

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Trust is an essential if often implicit aspect of co-design particularly when working in community-based, political and sensitive settings. Current co-design literature, however, remains fairly limited focusing on interactions between people as primary agents of trust. Drawing on research conducted with a poverty alleviation charity based in the UK, we illustrate how trust and distrust can also be mediated through material resources used in the co-design process. The paper highlights the significance of materials in negotiating the interdependencies of trust, in how distrust can be leveraged and trust can be supported through sensitive socio-material exchange conducted with resource limited community organisations.