Co-creation and participatory design

We’re experienced facilitators, mentors and educators as well as creative and technical practitioners, and we love to combine these skills to work with our clients and collaborators in an inclusive, participatory manner where everyone has an active role in identifying challenges and imagining and realising solutions.

Our approach is hands-on: participants both actively shape the solutions we develop, and gain the new skills and abilities that they need to continue their development, and to continue to work with new technologies in the future.

Let’s bring your projects to life, together. We like to work alongside your team and your collaborators to solve your needs, whatever they are: we can support you in your design or decision-making processes, as well as in technical development and realisation. Our approach ensures that everyone who needs to be is involved, and that you’re prepared to take ownership of the product and continue its journey when we’re done.

Methods

We combine experience in facilitation, participatory methods and education with our skills as creative and technical practitioners. This allows us to ensure that participants are given the opportunity to meaningfully co-create with us throughout the design and development process, and not just in the initial “ideation” phase.

We work together in a hands-on manner, and participants both actively shaped the solutions we develop, and gain the new skills and abilities that they need to continue their development, and to continue to work with new technologies in the future.

In a nutshell

We can adapt the process according to your specific needs, both in terms of intensity and duration - from one-off workshops to longer term capacity building and mentoring.

Experience

We’ve used our experiences as creative practitioners and facilitators to bring together diverse collectives of co-inventors including schoolchildren, musicians, environmental activists, and retirees. With each of them we’ve facilitated and enabled them to understand and imagine the possibilities of new technologies in their lives and practices, and worked with them to develop new products, services and experiences. We have worked alongside clients and partners including businesses, cultural and media organizations, and educational institutions.

Who we’ve worked with

Between us, we’ve worked in this way with organizations such as Fab Lab Barcelona, The BBC, CCCB, Medialab Matadero, Sónar, and a broad range of universities and research organizations.

What we can offer

We can offer a wide range of options including:

  • One off workshops with a specific objective in mind, which we design and facilitate to support your short-term goals.
  • Project co-design and facilitation, for broader, more sustained project co-design support.
  • Long term mentoring, training and capacity building within your organization.

Contact us at: info@sensical.es

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