Capacity Building Methodology

In endogenous community design, design experts should act as facilitators to provide participants with foundational frameworks and tools that facilitate collaborative innovation and enhance participants’ ability to do what they want to do and achieve the lifestyles they want to live. The main research objective of this chapter is to improve and enhance the collaborative innovation capacity of participants. Through innovative methods research, appropriate methodologies and toolkits for participants are provided to facilitate endogenous community capacity building. Figure 5.1 illustrates the logic of methodological formation in this chapter. First, innovation methods are extracted from frame innovation and extenics methods. Second, the three meta-capabilities for participants are derived from the design mode analysis, which are expanded into an endogenous meta-framework and further deepened into an endogenous design system model (EDSM). Finally, the capacity building methods of this chapter is proposed in conjunction with the innovation methods.