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Our team of experienced designers, makers and doers offer a rich creative resource for tackling problems and seeing opportunities wherever they may arise

Co-DB is an architectural and public realm design company specialising in the fit-out and furnishing of creative spaces. We partner with clients and end users to deliver diverse built environment projects that incorporate the principles of co-design.

Co-design is a process through which designers engage and empower clients and end-users. It’s about pairing the clients’ latent knowledge of a situation with the professional expertise of the designer. This pairing means that projects can be highly innovative and creative but at the same time, the reality of the problem at hand, stays in focus. As a design process, it goes against the traditional grain, where an architect or designer is considered the one true visionary expert and simply tells the client what they need. Rather, the co-designer is practiced in more transferable skills; those of guiding stakeholders through what can be challenging technical process, and helping to unlock their great ideas.

​At Co-DB we take co-design to the next level and incorporate it into the construction of a project itself. Sometimes this means that a stakeholder group gets stuck-in and joins us on the build, and entails bringing the making stages of a project forward. We embed them into the design process, so that everyone begins to make informed decisions, guided by a shared knowledge of the materials and building processes. We run workshops where we make prototypes or models, explore samples together or visit fantastic precedents. By doing these things we help our clients develop a real understanding about building processes. We have found that this results in deeply felt buy-in amongst stakeholders and ultimately spaces that work better for them.

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