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About
The studio describes its people as design mentors rather than consultants: "We help teams embed design approaches in the work they do, with a focus on co-design and collaboration." The distinguishing promise is that collaborating with the firm means a client's team completes a project and learns key design methods and tools while doing it.
Its published work is public-sector and health: re-envisioning how Health Canada engages people with lived experience; two projects with WIHV — collaboratively envisioning the future of health equity in Toronto, and enabling access to care for all Ontarians; and work with the University of Toronto collaboratively defining policy priorities for digital health.
Nadine Hare is a design anthropologist who teaches human-centred design and design research at the University of Toronto and OCAD University, with a focus on co-design and decolonising research, and is an Innovation Fellow at Women's College Hospital. Tieni Meninato works where design meets social change, drawing on graphic design, service design and future studies; she is also an Innovation Fellow at Women's College Hospital and Design Coordinator at the Pluriversal Futures Design Lab at Cornell University.
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An independent design practice run by its two founders; no outside investment is stated.
Quick answers
What does co-being design do?
It mentors teams — mostly in public health-care organisations — to use design methods themselves, with a focus on co-design and collaboration. Clients finish a real project and learn the methods and tools during it.
Who runs co-being design?
Nadine Hare, a design anthropologist who teaches at the University of Toronto and OCAD University, and Tieni Meninato, whose background spans graphic design, service design and future studies. Both are Innovation Fellows at Women's College Hospital.
What kind of projects has it worked on?
Health Canada engagement with people who have lived experience; health-equity and access-to-care work with WIHV in Toronto and Ontario; and defining digital-health policy priorities with the University of Toronto.