Socio-materiality of trust: co-design with a resource limited community organisation

Clarke, Rachel Elizabeth; Briggs, Jo; Armstrong, Andrea; MacDonald, Alistair; Vines, John; Flynn, Emma; Salt, Karen

Abstract

Trust is an essential if often implicit aspect of co-design particularly when working in community-based, political and sensitive settings. Current co-design literature, however, remains fairly limited focusing on interactions between people as primary agents of trust. Drawing on research conducted with a poverty alleviation charity based in the UK, we illustrate how trust and distrust can also be mediated through material resources used in the co-design process. The paper highlights the significance of materials in negotiating the interdependencies of trust, in how distrust can be leveraged and trust can be supported through sensitive socio-material exchange conducted with resource limited community organisations.

Citation

Clarke, R. E., Briggs, J., Armstrong, A., MacDonald, A., Vines, J., Flynn, E., & Salt, K. (2021). Socio-materiality of trust: co-design with a resource limited community organisation. CoDesign, 17(3), 258-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2019.1631349

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 10, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jul 5, 2019
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Jul 17, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 17, 2019
• Journal: CoDesign
• Print ISSN: 1571-0882
• Electronic ISSN: 1745-3755
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 258-277
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2019.1631349