Participatory Design Process

1. Organizing
a. Meet with students, teachers, custodian, neighbors
b. Create your design team
c. Decide what you need to know
d. Learn what you can and can't do
e. Plan your budget and timeline
f. Train adults, teenagers, and kids
g. Select your site, project, or theme

2. Fact finding
a. Study your site (perimeter, sun/shade, soil)
b. Find or make maps and a base model of your site
c. Study people near your site and people who will use it
d. Study people's current use and desires for the design
e. Learn about neighborhood and citywide resources

3. Generating design ideas
a. Make drawings and lists of design ideas
b. Make moveable model pieces of design ideas
c. Generate design ideas on the model

4. Creating a design
a. Create design ideas on the model
b. Negotiate over designs
c. Create designs the team agrees to and present
them to the community and owner of the land

5. Building the new design
a. Plan a construction timeline
b. Plan community construction and professional construction
c. Create what your team has designed & create programs in it

Learn more about PD here.