One of three graphic recordings produced live at the Glasgow Co-Design workshop by artist Sarah Ahmad. For the rest of her collection and the work of artist Liam Callebout who ‘live scribed’ the Birmingham workshop please visit our galleries.
PRIME convenes first round of co-design workshops
Dr Aunam Quyoum | November 2023
The PRIME project began its first round of co-design workshops in October 2023 in Birmingham and Glasgow to discuss challenges around the digitisation of services and digital racism. Participants at the workshops also interacted with data from the PRIME research thus far. Workshops were developed in collaboration with our community partners brap (Birmingham) and CEMVO (Glasgow). We reflected on key issues ranging from lived experiences of racism amongst minoritised ethnic communities, data privacy and security to issues of accessibility and agency. Participants included experts by experience from the local community, researchers, policy leads and third sector representatives – all with diverse experience and knowledge of social housing, health improvement, equality and diversity, and digital service design.
Discussions saw participants collaboratively reflecting on the positives and challenges of digitalisation of services in health, energy and social housing. Participants were guided towards developing a shared perspective on which key issues need prioritising going forward, with some breathing space to engage in more blue skies thinking about what an ideal digital service should and could look like for minoritised ethnic communities in England and Scotland.
The aim of these co-design workshops is to bring stakeholders together to share ideas and experiences, listen to different perspectives, and deliberate on ways to build anti-racist practice in the design of online services and improving on trust and transparency on the uses of minortised ethnic people’s data. Through these workshops, we hope to achieve co-created ideas on what digital services should do, look like, and what tools people want to make services fairer and more trustworthy, based on the perspective and needs of minoritised ethnic people.
The next round of workshops will take place in January 2024 where participants will build on previous discussions by focusing more on solutions for policy and practice.