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The Art of Co-Creation

A Guidebook for Practitioners

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Offers a foundation for new educational programs in facilitating co-creation

  • Builds upon existing knowledge to help practitioners more effectively tap into the potential of the teams they work with

  • Provides an integrative model that enables and empowers facilitators to bring together cross-disciplinary principles into a powerful framework for collective creativity

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Why Co-creation?

    • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
    Pages 1-15
  3. Understanding Co-creation

    • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
    Pages 17-38
  4. Preparing the Conditions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
    2. Working with People

      • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
      Pages 41-67
    3. Staging the Environment

      • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
      Pages 69-99
    4. Process Design I: Building Containers

      • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
      Pages 101-127
    5. Process Design II: Designing for Breakthroughs

      • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
      Pages 129-165
  5. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-173
    2. Preparing for the Journey

      • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
      Pages 175-211
    3. Act I: The Climb

      • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
      Pages 213-255
    4. Act II: The Dive

      • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
      Pages 257-314
    5. Act III: The Rise

      • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
      Pages 315-358
    6. Follow-Up

      • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
      Pages 359-386
  6. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 387-387
    2. Striving for Resonance

      • Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen
      Pages 389-408
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 409-431

About this book

This book illustrates how to design and implement co-creation, a powerful form of collective creativity that harnesses the potential of teams and can generate breakthrough insights. Skilled leaders and facilitators can utilize this approach to unleash the creative potential of their organizations. Drawing from years of applied research, the authors bring together insights from the fields of design and organizational development into an evocative and pragmatic “how-to” guidebook. Taking a human-centred rather than process oriented perspective, the book argues that experience design separates true co-creation from other forms of collective efforts and design thinking. Collective moments of creative insight emerge from the space between, an experience of flow and synchronicity from which new ideas spring forth. How to create and hold this space is the secret to the art of co-creation. Collective breakthroughs require stakeholders to undergo a journey from the world of their existing expertise into spaces of new potential. It requires leaders moving from a position of dominating space to holding the space for others, and developing core capacities such as empathy and awareness so that teams can engage each other co-creatively. This book uncovers the secrets of this journey, enabling process designers to develop more effective programs.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Rill Insights LLC, Florida, USA

    Bryan R. Rill

  • Riihi Consulting Ltd., Espoo, Finland

    Matti M. Hämäläinen

About the authors

Bryan R. Rill is a creative catalyst, coach, and educator. He is interested in helping people create more conscious and sustainable organizational cultures fit for the challenges of our time. A Fulbright-Hayes scholar, he founded and directed the research efforts of the Co-Creation Initiative in the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and also serves as President of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and a cofounder for the Eliad Group (http://eliadgrouop.com).


Matti M. Hämäläinen is currently associated with Aalto University Design Factory in Espoo, Finland, and a Senior Consultant and Partner for Riihi Consulting, Ltd. He has formerly held a position of Research Manager in the field of Product Design at Aalto University, Finland, and as the Director of Operations of Aalto–Tongji Design Factory, an inter-disciplinary co-creation platform established in collaboration between Aalto University and Tongji University in Shanghai, China.




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Art of Co-Creation

  • Book Subtitle: A Guidebook for Practitioners

  • Authors: Bryan R. Rill, Matti M. Hämäläinen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8500-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8499-7Published: 31 August 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4170-0Published: 03 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8500-0Published: 20 August 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 431

  • Number of Illustrations: 164 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Consulting, Supervision and Coaching, Design, general

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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