Collaborative design : A french / thai experiment of co-design

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This communication describes an experimentation of co-design carried out between two teams of Frenchand Thai nationalities. The objective of this collaboration is to design an exhibition of work from CRAI atthe Art Gallery of Rangsit University (Thailand). We describe here the setting up of this collaboration(objectives, stakes) as well as its progress. This project enables us to apprehend the cooperative dimensionof a design project, and particularly its sociological aspects. We describe also the tools implemented toassist the collaborative activities (discussions, file sharing, etc.). The characteristic of our experiment is thegeographical and cultural distance of our two teams. The difficulties related to this distance enabled us tosee how the tools can assist the actors in their co-operative tasks.