Editing Participatory design (section)

===Differing terms===
In  "Co-designing for Society", [[Deborah Szebeko]] and Lauren Tan list various precursors of co-design, starting with the Scandinavian participatory design movement and then state "Co-design differs from some of these areas as it includes all stakeholders of an issue not just the users, throughout the entire process from research to implementation."<ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.4066/AMJ.2010.378|title = Co-designing for Society|year = 2010|last1 = Szebeko|first1 = Deborah|journal = Australasian Medical Journal<!--Prior to 2016, before it got acquired by OMICS -->|pages = 580–590|doi-access = free}}</ref>

In contrast, Elizabeth Sanders and Pieter Stappers state that "the terminology used until the recent obsession with what is now called co-creation/co-design" was "participatory design".<ref name=":0">Sanders, E. and Stappers, P. J: "Co-creation and the new landscapes of design." CoDesign 2008. 4(1): 5–18.</ref> They also discuss the differences between co-design and co-creation and how they are "often confused and/or treated synonymously with one another".<ref name=":0" /> In their words, "Co-creation is a very broad term with applications ranging from the physical to the metaphysical and from the material to the spiritual", while seeing "co-design [as] a specific instance of co-creation".<ref name=":0" /> Pulling from the idea of what co-creation is, the definition of co-design in the context of their paper developed into "the creativity of designers and people not trained in design working together in the design development process".<ref name=":0" /> Another term brought up in this article front end design, which was formerly known as pre-design. "The goal of the explorations in the front end is to determine what is to be designed and sometimes what should not be designed and manufactured" and provides a space for the initial stages of co-design to take place.<ref name=":0" />

An alternate definition of co-design has been brought up by Maria Gabriela Sanchez and Lois Frankel. They proposed that "Co-design may be considered, for the purpose of this study, as an interdisciplinary process that involves designers and non-designers in the development of design solutions" and that "the success of the interdisciplinary process depends on the participation of all the stakeholders in the project".<ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |last1=Sanches |first1=Maria Gabriela |last2=Frankel |first2=Lois |date=July 7–9, 2010 |title=Co-design in Public Spaces: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Street Furniture Development |url=https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2010/researchpapers/105 |journal=[[Design and Complexity – DRS International Conference]] |pages= |via=DRS Digital Library}}</ref>

"Co-design is a perfect example of interdisciplinary work, where designer, researcher, and user work collaboratively in order to reach a common goal. The concept of interdisciplinarity, however, becomes broader in this context where it not only results from the union of different academic disciplines, but from the combination of different perspectives on a problem or topic."<ref name=":7" />