Silva Diaz, P. C., & Favretti, M., & Ospina Uribe, N., & Papadopoulos, C., & Castro-Sitiriche, M., & Seijo-Maldonado, L. R., & Irizarry, M., & Moscoso, J., & Otero-Andino, G. A., & Crespo Pagan, K. O., & Garcia Canto, L. S., & Amato, G., & Cuevas, F. A., & del Rio-Pineda, D. M., & Simshauser-Arroyo, R. F. (2021, July), Community Designers: A Pilot Virtual Community Codesign Symposium  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--36816

\bibitem{asee_peer_36816}
  Silva Diaz, P. C., \& Favretti, M., \& Ospina Uribe, N., \& Papadopoulos, C., \& Castro-Sitiriche, M., \& Seijo-Maldonado, L. R., \& Irizarry, M., \& Moscoso, J., \& Otero-Andino, G. A., \& Crespo Pagan, K. O., \& Garcia Canto, L. S., \& Amato, G., \& Cuevas, F. A., \& del Rio-Pineda, D. M., \& Simshauser-Arroyo, R. F. (2021, July), \emph{Community Designers: A Pilot Virtual Community Codesign Symposium}
  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference.
  10.18260/1-2--36816

Pamela Cristina Silva Diaz, Maggie Favretti, Nathalia Ospina Uribe, Christopher Papadopoulos, Marcel Castro-Sitiriche, Luisa Rosario Seijo-Maldonado, Marian Irizarry, Javier Moscoso, Gabriela Alexandra Otero-Andino, Kevin O'neil Crespo Pagan, Laura Sofia Garcia Canto, Grace Amato, Fernando Antonio Cuevas, Dulce M. del Rio-Pineda, and Reiner F. Simshauser-Arroyo.  "Community Designers: A Pilot Virtual Community Codesign Symposium".  2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2021.  https://peer.asee.org/36816 Internet.  05 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_36816}
  Pamela Cristina Silva Diaz, Maggie Favretti, Nathalia Ospina Uribe, Christopher Papadopoulos, Marcel Castro-Sitiriche, Luisa Rosario Seijo-Maldonado, Marian Irizarry, Javier Moscoso, Gabriela Alexandra Otero-Andino, Kevin O'neil Crespo Pagan, Laura Sofia Garcia Canto, Grace Amato, Fernando Antonio Cuevas, Dulce M. del Rio-Pineda, and Reiner F. Simshauser-Arroyo.
  "Community Designers: A Pilot Virtual Community Codesign Symposium".
  \emph{2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2021.
  https://peer.asee.org/36816 Internet.  05 Jan, 2025

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AB  - Community Designers:
A Pilot Virtual Community Co-Design Symposium

Among the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic is how to develop innovative strategies to address repeating and overlapping catastrophic events, and how to achieve this by engaging communities in ways that not only authentically invites their participation but empowers them to drive change.  This paper addresses how to adapt and manage convergent cooperative “co-design” activities in a virtual setting that uses design thinking to bring together experts from communities, and university students and faculty from engineering and sociology.
The authors represent a team that developed and executed an online symposium entitled “Co-Designing,” held from July 20 - August 6, 2020.  The Symposium brought together diverse and multi-generational teams of 2-6 persons, totalling 42 participants from 11 local communities, including 28 women and 9 children under the age of 18 (with parental consent).  The Symposium also included a staff of about a dozen leaders, mentors, and facilitators, including a mixture of independent scholars, faculty, and students. To facilitate virtual community-designer participation, we developed a cooperative mentoring framework and hi-tech/lo-tech interface. 
The Symposium engaged participants in learning the concepts of Co-Design Thinking, through the application of Appropriate Technology and Participatory Action Research methodology.  Each community team chose a theme of disaster recovery - contact tracing, handwashing, and off-grid energy - and developed prototype solutions meaningful to their community.
Student mentors learned to facilitate community co-design, replicable in future community engagement applications of engineering and convergent disciplines.  Community teams learned a new process that validates their knowledge and flexes their efficacy to drive change from vision, to problem solving, to implementation project management.  Community feedback indicated that participants felt empowered to use the co-design process in the future, and to expand their new innovation-implementation ecosystem to increase resilience.  


AU  - Pamela Cristina Silva Diaz
AU  - Maggie Favretti
AU  - Nathalia Ospina Uribe
AU  - Christopher Papadopoulos
AU  - Marcel Castro-Sitiriche
AU  - Luisa Rosario Seijo-Maldonado
AU  - Marian Irizarry
AU  - Javier Moscoso
AU  - Gabriela Alexandra Otero-Andino
AU  - Kevin O'neil Crespo Pagan
AU  - Laura Sofia Garcia Canto
AU  - Grace Amato
AU  - Fernando Antonio Cuevas
AU  - Dulce M. del Rio-Pineda
AU  - Reiner F. Simshauser-Arroyo
CY  - Virtual Conference
DA  - 2021/07/26
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Community Designers: A Pilot Virtual Community Codesign Symposium
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--36816
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