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Discussing Research Through Co-design in Policy-Making

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The paper describes possible connections between the Research Through Co-design (RTC) model and the contexts of the policy-making through a theoretical framework for envisioning the policy-making as a co-design process and the work of the policy-makers as an autoregulatory research process. The authors use the RTC model with the aim to understand if it describes a valuable process to be introduced in contexts of policy-making. The RTC model is based on the control system theory and the authors discuss how the autoregulation from an RTC perspective is a valuable point to be study in policy-making. In conclusion, key aspects to be adopted in policy-making are suggested (i.e. the autoregulation property, the co-design driven process, the role of the policy maker as a researcher) and crucial aspects to be study further are highlighted (i.e. the effects of positive and negative feedback; the variables that determines the exit from the system).

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  1. Design Research Lab, Department of Humanities, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Daniele Busciantella-Ricci

  2. Department of Product Development, Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Sofia Scataglini

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  2. School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China

    Marcelo Soares

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Busciantella-Ricci, D., Scataglini, S. (2020). Discussing Research Through Co-design in Policy-Making. In: Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (eds) Advances in Ergonomics in Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1203. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51038-1_1

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