Abstract
In this paper we discuss CAMP, a co-design method for practice re-orientations in public policy environments. Situated within the fields of design research, policy and futures studies, this method integrates practice-based research that investigates how co-design methods can contribute expanded approaches to futures thinking in policy contexts of uncertainty and emergence. More concretely, in CAMP we are designing for and with anticipation, understood as a capacity and a working concept. CAMP – organised by a metaphorical arc of preparing, camping and time-travelling – builds on interview-based insights, anticipatory capabilities and our co-design experiences. In this pictorial, we detail our intentions and material choices in making CAMP, and how they unfolded in a first instantiation with practitioners in Australia. By enacting and documenting CAMP, we hope to contribute a repertoire of anticipatory orientations, and an example of participatory engagements aimed at animating a sense of imaginative agency towards the contingencies of the future.
Keywords
Co-design; Anticipatory policymaking; Practice-based research; Design futuring
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.171
Citation
Brandalise, I., Sumartojo, S., Grocott, L.,and Mintrom, M.(2025) CAMP: co-designing for anticipatory re-orientations in policymaking practices, in Chang, C.-Y., and Hsu, Y. (eds.), IASDR 2025: Design Next, 02-05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.171
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Conference Track
Track 6 - Co-creation
CAMP: co-designing for anticipatory re-orientations in policymaking practices
In this paper we discuss CAMP, a co-design method for practice re-orientations in public policy environments. Situated within the fields of design research, policy and futures studies, this method integrates practice-based research that investigates how co-design methods can contribute expanded approaches to futures thinking in policy contexts of uncertainty and emergence. More concretely, in CAMP we are designing for and with anticipation, understood as a capacity and a working concept. CAMP – organised by a metaphorical arc of preparing, camping and time-travelling – builds on interview-based insights, anticipatory capabilities and our co-design experiences. In this pictorial, we detail our intentions and material choices in making CAMP, and how they unfolded in a first instantiation with practitioners in Australia. By enacting and documenting CAMP, we hope to contribute a repertoire of anticipatory orientations, and an example of participatory engagements aimed at animating a sense of imaginative agency towards the contingencies of the future.