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Co-creative Experiences for the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

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Advances in Design Engineering (INGEGRAF 2019)

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been established by the United Nations to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The challenges to address in the achievement of these objectives, due to their complex and abstract nature, will require the search for specific solutions to local problems in a framework of collaboration. This collaboration will have to take place between different fields of knowledge, social strata or countries. For this reason, co-creation methodologies have been identified treated in a generic way, as a group of promising tools in the achievement of the SDGs, since they are successfully applied in complex and multidisciplinary work environments. This study reviews and analyses various cases of how co-creation methodologies have addressed the SDGs so far; among them, the study has focused on Design Thinking, Living Labs, Citizen Participation and Collective Intelligence. The results of each case are presented and its common applications are discussed for all the SDGs or as a discrimination of methodologies based on the selected objective.

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  1. Department of Design and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Calle María de Luna 3, 50018, Saragossa, Spain

    Jorge Sierra-Pérez & Ignacio López-Forniés

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  1. Departamento de Estructuras, Construcción y Expresión Gráfica, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

    Francisco Cavas-Martínez

  2. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

    Félix Sanz-Adan

  3. Departamento de Mecánica, Tecnun - Universidad de Navarra, Donostia-San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain

    Paz Morer Camo

  4. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

    Ruben Lostado Lorza

  5. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, Spain

    Jacinto Santamaría Peña

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Sierra-Pérez, J., López-Forniés, I. (2020). Co-creative Experiences for the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. In: Cavas-Martínez, F., Sanz-Adan, F., Morer Camo, P., Lostado Lorza, R., Santamaría Peña, J. (eds) Advances in Design Engineering. INGEGRAF 2019. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41200-5_6

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