Designing a youth-led Dialogue Forum tool: The CO-CREATE experience

Manuela Aguirre Ulloa; Samantha Nesrallah; Pardis Shafafi; Angel Lamar; Pedro Côrte-Real Gonçalves; Mafalda Gonçalves; Karoline Steen Nylander; Aleksandra Luszczynska; Nanna Lien; Elin Bergstrøm; Harry Rutter; Henriette Marki; Knut-Inge Klepp; Claire Bouillon

doi:10.1111/obr.13611

Designing a youth-led Dialogue Forum tool: The CO-CREATE experience

Manuela Aguirre Ulloa, Samantha Nesrallah, Pardis Shafafi, Angel Lamar, Pedro Côrte-Real Gonçalves, Mafalda Gonçalves, Karoline Steen Nylander, Aleksandra Luszczynska, Nanna Lien, Elin Bergstrøm, Harry Rutter, Henriette Marki, Knut-Inge Klepp, Claire Bouillon

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While obesity prevention represents an established field of research, the inclusion of young people, who are regularly cited as an important priority group, are rarely actioned in long-term studies. This paper focuses on the development of a dialogue tool intended to tackle this issue, engaging, and eliciting insights on the theme of obesity prevention, by young people and for young people. As part of the CO-CREATE project, this tool was co-developed by designers, public health, and youth participation experts, researchers, and young people. Co-creation is a key methodology in the design of the dialogue tool, as young people were involved in all stages of the development process. This paper elaborates on the process of co-designing a dialogue tool that helps explore obesity prevention policy ideas from multiple perspectives, and describes the design principles that informed the process and the final versions of the tool. The purpose of the Dialogue Forum tool is for youth to engage policymakers and other relevant stakeholders to discuss and refine co-created and youth-initiated ideas for healthier food and physical activity environments. We analyze how specific design principles were integrated into different prototypes and the value of this within the project and the field.

Original language	English
Article number	e13611
Number of pages	17
Journal	Obesity Reviews
Volume	24
Issue number	S2
Early online date	27 Sept 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13611
Publication status	Published - 30 Sept 2023

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Funding Information:
The “Confronting obesity: Co‐creating policy with youth” (CO‐CREATE) project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No.774210 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/774210 ). The content of this document reflects only the authors' views, and the European Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information it contains. The authors would like to recognize the contribution of all youth participating in the CO‐CREATE project as central to the development of the Dialogue Forum tool, as well as previous colleagues in the project.

Funding Information:
The “Confronting obesity: Co-creating policy with youth” (CO-CREATE) project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No.774210 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/774210). The content of this document reflects only the authors' views, and the European Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information it contains. The authors would like to recognize the contribution of all youth participating in the CO-CREATE project as central to the development of the Dialogue Forum tool, as well as previous colleagues in the project.

Keywords

Dialogue
co-creation
design research
youth engagement

UN SDGs

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