Creative and collaborative reflective thinking to support policy deliberation and decision making

Background: Co-creation in policymaking is of increasing interest to national governments, and designers play a significant role its introduction. Aims objectives: We discuss instances from our fieldwork that demonstrated how UK Policy Lab used design methods gain insight into the design-oriented introduced policymakers’ practices, these may influence conventional policy processes. Methods: This paper reports on learnings two-month participant observation at conducted early 2019. Findings: found that, beyond human-centred future-oriented working this unit appropriate as reflective practice for context policymaking. use visual creative are utilised by facilitate co-creative make valuable contribution practices Government. Discussion conclusions: As deliberation decision making influenced both what thought about well who doing thinking, allow notions assumptions be unpicked. Moreover, when done group activity, reflection leads co-production deepened understanding challenges. Consequently, we argue, an essential developing co-creation tradition evidence-informed